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[King Doom]

Is there a way to turn this off? I started a fun looking map, I'm expecting a lot of fun with chasm critters, only by the time I start looking to expand in that direction everything is dead of old age. This wouldn't be so bad, but it's only year two so far and nothing respawned, there's just piles of bones and a list of about 200 creatures marked deceased when I hit U. I started the map again and instantly stuff dropped dead, it was spread across the map too, so it wasn't some uber predator killing them all. Is there a way to mod in/edit something to make more critters turn up?

[Squeegy]

Change the [AGE:#:#] tag in the raws.

[King Doom]

Awesome! thanks. Rather than resorting to trial and error, is it possible to change it to immortal? what do the values represent?

[Novocain]

If you want to make them never die of old age, simply remove the age tag.

[King Doom]

I'll try that, yeah, but what do the numbers represent? I'd like to know, so when I end up with eight hundred animals running around I can manipulate 'em and keep things sane.

Wait, the tags do take effect in the current save, right? you don't need to start from scratch?

[Star Weaver]

The numbers are min and max old age in years. The creture will die sometime between age N and M.

And yeah, the only thing that won't affect a save are new items completely (new [CREATURE:BLAH] line or whatever). Not sure what happens if you delete stuff.

[King Doom]

Again, thanks. One last question, is it possible to alter things so that I can move animals from cage to cage? I can move a fully armed goblin warlord around with no problems, but a captive frogman will escape immediately and send my fortress into a panic.

[i2amroy]

If you remove a object it will create a fatal bug when you try to load your game.

[Noble Digger]

Again, thanks. One last question, is it possible to alter things so that I can move animals from cage to cage? I can move a fully armed goblin warlord around with no problems, but a captive frogman will escape immediately and send my fortress into a panic.

I have this problem as well. My dwarves cannot pit\pond\chasm large untamed creatures, but they can pit\pond\chasm extremely deadly and hostile sentient creatures, which almost seem to me MORE likely to make a break for it when uncaged. I mean, i'm leading a goblin by the hand toward the chasm. Closer. Closer. At the edge now. Okay shoving you. Thanks for your cooperation Mr. Goblin. Next I'll throw that Hoary Marmot in the--OH GOD A HOARY MARMOT AND IT'S NOT IN A CAGE JESUS CHRIST RUN

[i2amroy]

Again, thanks. One last question, is it possible to alter things so that I can move animals from cage to cage? I can move a fully armed goblin warlord around with no problems, but a captive frogman will escape immediately and send my fortress into a panic.

I have this problem as well. My dwarves cannot pit\pond\chasm large untamed creatures, but they can pit\pond\chasm extremely deadly and hostile sentient creatures, which almost seem to me MORE likely to make a break for it when uncaged. I mean, i'm leading a goblin by the hand toward the chasm. Closer. Closer. At the edge now. Okay shoving you. Thanks for your cooperation Mr. Goblin. Next I'll throw that Hoary Marmot in the--OH GOD A HOARY MARMOT AND IT'S NOT IN A CAGE JESUS CHRIST RUN

This is because dwarves are smart enough that they consider the sentient creature a large enough of a threat that they whack it on the head to knock it unconscious before they try to pit it. This mean that the only times that they escape are when they didn't hit it on the head hard enough. The dwarves, however, do not consider the large animals threats, so they do not hit them.

[Noble Digger]

This is because dwarves are smart enough that they consider the sentient creature a large enough of a threat that they whack it on the head to knock it unconscious before they try to pit it. This mean that the only times that they escape are when they didn't hit it on the head hard enough. The dwarves, however, do not consider the large animals threats, so they do not hit them.

"There there, that's a good giant toad. Come with Urist to the chasm like a good lad."