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[hotcakes]

so the elves have saved themselves from being used in the test run for my trade depot defense mechanism (drops the entire trade depot in magma)(also useful for stopping sieges b/c the magma mist from the cave rushes thru vents to deep fry any sieges that are present, but i digress) the elves brought me a tame alligator and i dont know what to do with him. Now i heard from a previous thread that these pesky scaly critters have the building destroyer tag and even tho they are tame will proceed to destory my base with no consequences. so my question is is this true, and what should i do with my pet

[Creamcorn]

Wait until the elves bring another opposite gender alligator, chain them up somewhere, and profit on +alligator handbags+

You could train it assuming it has the trainable tag on it, and put it into a pit, but if it has the exotic tag on it you'll need a dungeon master.

[Neoskel]

Alligators don't have [BUILDINGDESTOYER], that's cave crocodiles. But yeah, you need a dungeon master to do anything you could with regular pets with them.

[hotcakes]

oh its already tame but thanks for clearing that up i cant wait to try it out some unsupecting goblin prisoners

[BurnedToast]

be sure to take the goblin's weapons away first though. Alligators are pretty strong but I had a goblin swordsman chop one of mine up pretty well before it ate him and the elves never delivered a replacement

They did send me a Giant Eagle a few years later though, which is even better!

[Warlord255]

Sadly, tamed animals are never savage enough.

I had a glacial fortress with a tamed GCS that I fed migrants via drop-bridge, but animals react differently to goblins...

[Samyotix]

I love the elves on my map ...

Two years ago they brought a breeding couple of Giant Jaguars. I'm still toying with the idea of making these trainable as war animals since none of the dwarves wants them as a pet ...

This year? A breeding couple again, Giant Desert Scorpions.

These do have Building Destroyer, so I can't use them as pets ... currently I'm switching my Ambush Detection System to use cage traps instead of weapons traps, and hope to catch a few Kobold and Goblin gladiators soon.

[King Doom]

for critters with building destroyer, it seems that the tag is disabled if you have the ability to tame exotic pets, i.e. you have the dungeon master present before the caravan arrives to sell the animal to you.


First caravan sells you exotic monster A, you have no DM and can't tame exotic beasts, the animal counts as tame, but the game things it isn't, so it causes problems. (have it moved from one cage to another. It will attack one nearby dwarf if you do this.)

Years later another caravan arrives, you have a DM, it sells you exotic beast B, oh look, you can tame these anyway, the critter is the perfect little pet.

[Agent Fransis]

I assume the OP referred to my 'Help! being terrorized by crocodile' thread. In that case the crocodile was hostile only because he killed one of my dwarfs before being captured and tamed. I had many other perfectly tame cave crocodiles too. His behavior was buggy though, as instead of just being aggressive, he was only aggressive towards buildings and everyone ignored him. I removed the building destroyer tag so he wouldn't bother me anymore.