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Lordoomer

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I captured two elephants, a male and a female and I trained them but. for some reason they won't make babies. I had a fortress with economy entirely based on giraffe and ostrich bonecrafts last time but those elephants won't breed. Anyone know how to encourage elephants to breed?
And how do we insert images, the button only put an html tag in the text, shouldn't it prompt me to upload an image? I have to put an src property in the tag? Also an html tag has <> not []...
Oh well I'll just past a twitter link with the screenshot I guess...
https://twitter.com/Lordoomer/status/1615240361550696450
« Last Edit: January 17, 2023, 01:56:36 am by Lordoomer »
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Re: I captured two elephants, a male and a female and I trained them but...
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2023, 02:10:52 am »

I captured two elephants, a male and a female and I trained them but. for some reason they won't make babies. I had a fortress with economy entirely based on giraffe and ostrich bonecrafts last time but those elephants won't breed. Anyone know how to encourage elephants to breed?
And how do we insert images, the button only put an html tag in the text, shouldn't it prompt me to upload an image? I have to put an src property in the tag? Also an html tag has <> not []...
Oh well I'll just past a twitter link with the screenshot I guess...
https://twitter.com/Lordoomer/status/1615240361550696450

You’d be better off moving this thread to DF Gameplay Questions.
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Re: I captured two elephants, a male and a female and I trained them but...
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2023, 02:12:17 am »

The ones you have might just not be interested, as there is a 5% for any creature to be homosexuel. You should capture some more.
If this is something you don't want you can (before generating a world) change the raws for this to be less (or more) by adding the appropriate ORIENTATION tag to the animal(s) of your choosing.
Maybe current fortress raws can be changed too, but I had few luck saving them without compression. Also even that would only apply for future speciments.
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Re: I captured two elephants, a male and a female and I trained them but...
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2023, 02:12:45 am »

Okay how do I move it? My elephantess just gave birth to two babies anyway...
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2023, 03:13:39 pm »

The Move Topic button at the bottom of the page (only shows up for threads you created).
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Re: I captured two elephants, a male and a female and I trained them but...
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2023, 02:47:11 pm »

The ones you have might just not be interested, as there is a 5% for any creature to be homosexuel.

It's a 5% chance for a creature to be uninterested in the opposite sex, not homosexual; chance of homosexuality is 3.75%

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Re: I captured two elephants, a male and a female and I trained them but...
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2023, 08:33:08 pm »

My elephantess just gave birth to two babies anyway...

Elephants do have a REALLY long gestation time, so that was probably making it even harder to be certain of the outcome.
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