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Sjotrik

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NOO! Flies! :(
« on: April 12, 2011, 08:10:24 am »

I have 4 swarms of flies in my food stockpile. xD How do i get rid of them? i cant afford losing food to the vermin. >:(
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Re: NOO! Flies! :(
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2011, 08:19:37 am »

If you have prepared meals or store your food in barrels, there'll be no real problem. It won't rot that fast.

You can't get rid of flies.
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Re: NOO! Flies! :(
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2011, 08:21:30 am »

If you have prepared meals or store your food in barrels, there'll be no real problem. It won't rot that fast.

You can't get rid of flies.

darn. okay. :) i will get my cooks to work. thanks.
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« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2011, 08:35:55 am »

If you have prepared meals or store your food in barrels, there'll be no real problem. It won't rot that fast.

You can't get rid of flies.

darn. okay. :) i will get my cooks to work. thanks.

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Re: NOO! Flies! :(
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2011, 09:29:38 am »

Pasture your cat in your food stockpile; keeps them from leaving it and makes sure they don't cause too much FPS drop by remaining in the room.
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Re: NOO! Flies! :(
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2011, 09:40:11 am »

One thing I did was give all spiders the [HUNTS_VERMIN] tag.  Wish there was a [HUNTS_INSECTS] tag but that does.  And when I say all spiders, I mean any that weren't small enough to be vermin themselves, or that have decent webs.

That's right, GCS hunting vermin.  Weasels and Ferrets and quite a few lizards are doing some vermin hunting, too.  The end result is that my world doesn't have a whole lot of vermin, and cats aren't quite as necessary.

I think flies can get webbed too... once I open up the caves and the little spiders find their way in, I never seem to have flies anymore.
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Re: NOO! Flies! :(
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2011, 09:43:39 am »

One thing I did was give all spiders the [HUNTS_VERMIN] tag.  Wish there was a [HUNTS_INSECTS] tag but that does.  And when I say all spiders, I mean any that weren't small enough to be vermin themselves, or that have decent webs.

That's right, GCS hunting vermin.  Weasels and Ferrets and quite a few lizards are doing some vermin hunting, too.  The end result is that my world doesn't have a whole lot of vermin, and cats aren't quite as necessary.

I think flies can get webbed too... once I open up the caves and the little spiders find their way in, I never seem to have flies anymore.

I didn't know weasels and ferrets were in the game.


Also, just in case people don't know, the vermin hunter tag is also responsible for animals "adopting" dwarves.
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Re: NOO! Flies! :(
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2011, 10:28:38 am »

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Also, just in case people don't know, the vermin hunter tag is also responsible for animals "adopting" dwarves.

Not any more by the looks of it! I noticed when I was updating my goliath tarantula animal for the new version, there's this new tag on cats:

[HUNTS_VERMIN]
[RETURNS_VERMIN_KILLS_TO_OWNER]
[ADOPTS_OWNER]

So I'm assuming verminhunter behaviour is now dissociated from the adopt behaviour. Which I guess is nice, but I still gave my GTs both tags to keep them as cat-equivalents, it felt less cheaty.
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