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[nickbii]

43 damn fish, but 0 Cave Lobsters. Which means 0 shells. So my last fey dwarf went insane.

There's no other water on this map, so no turtles will appear.

Is there any reason for that?

[Derakon]

All I know about fishing is that you can fish turtles out of aquifers if you have to. You might try making an artificial pond on the surface and fishing from that.

[Ziusudra]

Cave Lobsters cannot be caught by fishing.  They have the VERMIN_NOFISH token which wiki says "The creature cannot be caught by fishing."

I believe you can catch them with the Catch a Live Land Animal job, as they do not have the VERMIN_NOTRAP token.

[nickbii]

Cave Lobsters cannot be caught by fishing.  They have the VERMIN_NOFISH token which wiki says "The creature cannot be caught by fishing."

I believe you can catch them with the Catch a Live Land Animal job, as they do not have the VERMIN_NOTRAP token.

That's the trouble. Thanks.

I'll try trapping them.

There's no aquifers on this map. Just 22 tiles of subterranean river. The water level's going down, so I'm NOT about to pump any of my precious water into a surface pond just to catch a turtle.

Besides if I tried it would evaporate. This is a desert.

Nick

[Derakon]

Rivers are infinite supplies of water. The level goes down at the edges of the map naturally; you're not about to run out. Now, underground pools are a different story. Still, any underground water will only evaporate if its depth is 1/7.

[nickbii]

I might try that eventually, then. I'm still reluctant to do it, tho. There's no good place to add a pond in my fort, and I'm trying to make my fort as self-sufficient as possible.

In the meantime I think I'll just mod lobsters to be catchable.

Nick

[Quietust]

If you want to catch turtles, all you need to do is dig a channel next to your underground river that leads into a different (48x48) region tile - since you won't be fishing within the underground river itself, the game will think you're fishing from a murky pool instead, giving you turtles.