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[Old School Gamer]

So my hunter on this new map I'm playing spent a fair amount of time stalking a cougar, axe in hand.. he pursued him relentlessly.

He finally reached the poor cat and sliced him up good, leaving him with a pierced lung and one of his limbs missing, laying unconscious on the top of a plateau.  Then he walked off, leaving the cat there to suffer.

It's been laying there, occasionally moving a foot or two, but he seems to be completely oblivious to it at this point.  Either he decided to get a drink just before laying the killing blow, or he wanted to show the cougar who the real carnivore was.  The cougar still lays there unconscious, but he's more than happy to continue to slaughter goats and groundhogs.

An interesting way to start off a fort.  Maybe I should give him a lava bath now before he slaughters the whole fort.

[n9103]

More Blood For The Blood God!

Seriously, the more cruel and unusual, the better, when it comes to DF...
Well, the more anything really, but yea

[numerobis]

Cruel would be if he sat there and gouged out the cougar's eyes, then proceeded to break every bone in its body one by one.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

I wonder. This might be related to something I noted in adventure mode:

Sometimes, when foes fall unconscious, I will no longer automatically attack them if I move onto their tile. Instead, I have to deliberately 'A'ttack them to make them correct targets again. Maybe something like that happens with the cougar.

However, I also noticed that when they regain consciousness, they usually become legal targets again.

In the case of the hunter, I could imagine that the unconscious cougar is no legal target, so the hunter chooses some other job. Then the cougar recovers and becomes a legal target, but the hunter is busy elsewhere. And when the hunter is free again, the cougar has collapsed again...

That theory could at least explain it, I think.

Deathworks

[Mulch Diggums]

Im pretty sure if you draft the hunter he'll finish it off...but if I were you I would catch the thing and tame it.... Would be a wonderfull pet.

[Dwarfaholic]

... except it's missing a limb and has a pierced lung.

[Mulch Diggums]

Battle wounds worth telling made up storys about. Just put a beret on him and he'll look even better!

-edit- beret and an eye patch.

[ March 01, 2008: Message edited by: Mulch Diggums ]

[Alaern]

and an artificial limb

[Mulch Diggums]

That shoots flaming booze barrels filled with carp

[Cthulhu]

Nah, just a peg leg and an eyepatch.  Put him on a post outside your fortress, the goblins will see him and think "Wow, that's one mean cat, let's find a different fortress to die in front of.

[Old School Gamer]

How would I catch it?  I set my butcher's shop to "capture live land animal", but that didn't seem to do it.

Would I just set a bunch of cage traps around him until he groggily stumbles into one?  And can I then tame him?

[Mlittle]

quote:Would I just set a bunch of cage traps around him until he groggily stumbles into one?

Yes. Also use channels to limit it's options.

quote:And can I then tame him?

Yes.