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[100killer9]

Can I tame carp without modding? I plan on making a fort entirely accesible to both fish and dwarves, but this would only work if I could tame the carp.

[NW_Kohaku]

And you want to mod pikmin, as well?

You're one crazy player... I feel a slight twinge of jealousy coming on.

What you need to do is go to the raws of whatever fish you are looking for, and make sure that either [PET] or [PET_EXOTIC] tags are there.

Carp don't have the [PET] tag, even though they (oddly) have [PETVALUE], which sets their value as pets.  You can, however, mod that into their raws.

I'm not sure if it is really possible to tame aquatic creatures under normal circumstances, however, as I haven't tried it. 

[Vattic]

I seem to remember someone doing this. They had to flood the kennels to 4/7 to stop the fish drowning while allowing the trainer access.

[Untelligent]

There was a guy a while back who not only tamed carp, but made them into War Carp.

The latter is rather tricky. Taming consists of bringing the tamer to the carp cage, which isn't too hard once you get the carp in the cage, but training them requires walking the fish over to the kennel, which can be... problematic.


EDIT: ack, ninja'd

[NW_Kohaku]

Yeah, I was playing it out in my head, and thought it would be something like that, but I wouldn't want to say something without experience.

[Retro]

The idea of a fort equally accessible to water critters as well as your dorfs sounds really interesting. I'm picturing waterways alongside each tunnel, with little bridges over them when they crisscross. Very catacomb/large sewer-y. Keep us updated!

For bonus points (because DF is practically made of bonus points), give your dwarves [UNDERSWIM] and you can force encourage them into the deeper water (as in, multiple-z of water) to hang out with their pets, so long as they're regular swimmers as well (unless you want to give 'em [SWIMS_INNATE] as well)

[Satarus]

I think they'll still give you "Dangerous Terrain" cancellation messages if it is over 4/7 water.

[Shinziril]

Yeah, even with the modded magmaproof, [NOBREATHE] dorfs I use for mechanics testing, they still complain if they have to work underwater (or under magma).  I think it's just because the pathing algorithm is hardcoded to care about that sort of thing, and there's nothing we can do about that. 

[Darkond2100]

then give the [NOBREATH] tag to the carp, and don't use any water at all! duh!