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Illusion123

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Plump Helmet Man Army
« on: January 31, 2014, 05:00:27 pm »
I have been trying to make a Plump helmet man army for prisoner entertainment, is there a way to get these guys to breed in sufficient numbers without them going crazy and killing each other? - They dont have to be tame, I just want to dump them in a pit and come back to them when there is like 50 of them down there :P.
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Re: Plump Helmet Man Army
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2014, 06:55:11 pm »
I would make a series of single-square pits to house the new-born males in, each with a lever-operated floorhatch/bridge (Depending on your timing needs.) for them to stand on until fight-time. As long as they're completely alone and helplessly stuck, they should be relatively fine by the time you "release the Goombas" etc. I use to do this with untamable cave-fauna all the time, so I'm fairly certain that it should keep PHM safe and harmless.
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Re: Plump Helmet Man Army
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2014, 06:59:30 pm »
I find that locking them down tends to make it more difficult to control them, because dwarves don't typically go through their cellblocks. I let them drift from meeting area to meeting area, mostly, so that they're always surrounded by lots of dwarves. I can even manage to keep a few of them wartrained if I assign only one per soldier.
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