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Justiceface

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How long for animal babies to grow up?
« on: May 18, 2011, 06:01:24 pm »
How long does it take for animals to grow from child to adult?  I have a breeding pair of tigers who've had two litters in less than a year (my animal trainer is surrounded by a constant cloud of grey and red 'T's, which I find amusing).  I want to use them to defend my dwarves, but I don't want to lose either of the parents.
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Quote from: Angry Bob on June 17, 2011, 06:00:17 pm
If you have okay wrestling, you can stab someone in the lower body, making their guts pop out. If you then wrestle and pinch the guts, you can sever them. By then, the guy's probably unconscious. If he's not, strangle him until he is and cave in his skull with the guts.

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Re: How long for animal babies to grow up?
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2011, 06:12:39 pm »
Depends on the animal.  Not all animals mature in the same amount of time.  If you want to know the time for a specific animal, look it up in the raws and look at the [CHILD] tag, this tells you the number of years to maturity.
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Justiceface

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Re: How long for animal babies to grow up?
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2011, 06:31:03 pm »
Aha!  I've not done much of anything with the raws, but a quick check of creature_savage_tropical shows a value of three for the tiger. 

Out of curiosity, if I save my game and exit DF, edit the raws to say [CHILD:1] for the tiger, then resume my save, will the tiger cubs then mature in a year, or will the game 1) ignore my changes or 2) explode in a cloud of bugs/crashes/fun?  ;)

Thanks, gtmattz, for your swift response.
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Quote from: Angry Bob on June 17, 2011, 06:00:17 pm
If you have okay wrestling, you can stab someone in the lower body, making their guts pop out. If you then wrestle and pinch the guts, you can sever them. By then, the guy's probably unconscious. If he's not, strangle him until he is and cave in his skull with the guts.

No, really.

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Re: How long for animal babies to grow up?
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2011, 06:49:10 pm »
Quote from: Justiceface on May 18, 2011, 06:31:03 pm
Aha!  I've not done much of anything with the raws, but a quick check of creature_savage_tropical shows a value of three for the tiger. 

Out of curiosity, if I save my game and exit DF, edit the raws to say [CHILD:1] for the tiger, then resume my save, will the tiger cubs then mature in a year, or will the game 1) ignore my changes or 2) explode in a cloud of bugs/crashes/fun?  ;)

Thanks, gtmattz, for your swift response.

I don't know how this change would work, but tigers certainly don't need three years to change into adult. Or adolescents, because animals, just like dwarfs, are not fully grown when they change. Also the age of transformation is in fact semi-random, like with dwarfs. Dwarf baby can change into child even after three months, despite RAWs saying it needs one year in children tag (and 18 months for changing weight to child weight) . Most babies change into children in age between 12 and 18 months, some earlier, and I had one 3-months old who prematurely changed. With one litter of tigers I got three cubs (or were there two litters in the same time? I don't remember) but two of them changed much faster than the third one. It took one year more for him. It seems these checks are performed periodically. With children it's every month. So you need to experiment and wait some time.
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