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zebri

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Order to kill a specific animal?
« on: December 18, 2011, 07:24:21 am »
Hi!

I have just got a well running castle but there are rats running around.
I don't have any cats (if they would kill them).
So i want to order someone to kill those little grey annoyances. is there any way to
do that?

Thanks in advance.
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Garath

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Re: Order to kill a specific animal?
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2011, 07:37:16 am »
cats
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Re: Order to kill a specific animal?
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2011, 07:40:55 am »
they seem to be a plague for many poeple here. I would love to have some of them in my fortress...  ???
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Re: Order to kill a specific animal?
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2011, 07:45:54 am »
I don't think vermin are targetable like that.

Best you can do is starve dwarves until they decide to eat rats.
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Garath

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Re: Order to kill a specific animal?
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2011, 08:02:19 am »
ask the next dwarf caravan to bring some cats, much more efficient and less likely to cause extremely moody dwarfs
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Re: Order to kill a specific animal?
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2011, 08:08:35 am »
create some animal traps and activate a trapper squad
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zebri

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Re: Order to kill a specific animal?
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2011, 08:09:56 am »
I'd prefer Garath's method, since i have some lever activated spike traps.
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It seems to be too late: Now there are Lizards runnding around in my castle xDD
« Last Edit: December 18, 2011, 08:11:49 am by zebri »
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Re: Order to kill a specific animal?
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2011, 08:13:06 am »
Spike traps won't injure vermin, either. You need to specifically create Animal Traps (I believe you can make them at Carpenter's Workshops or at a Metalsmith's Forge), then enable the Animal Trapping labor on some dwarves and give the order to trap small animals. I'd recommend looking it up on the wiki for more information.
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Re: Order to kill a specific animal?
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2011, 08:23:57 am »
Aaaaah, never knew that there was a wiki. I dont know why i didn't find it before. thanks!
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