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smjjames

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Will wild animal spawns cap off at a certain population as they breed?
« on: July 13, 2009, 03:11:01 pm »
There is one word that will describe my exact situation.... Hippos.

No, they haven't attacked my dwarves yet, the river is along the far edge of the embark area. Their unpredictability will show up when the immigrants arrive though. The first year isn't quite over yet and they are already having an orgy in the river, 26 hippo calves at this point have entered the world.

I plan on capturing some eventually though to use as livestock.

Edit: Checked the raws and they take some time to mature, so... maybe not as livestock, but they do breed like crazy and with sufficient numbers and calvings over the years....
« Last Edit: July 13, 2009, 03:14:20 pm by smjjames »
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Jim Groovester

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Re: Will wild animal spawns cap off at a certain population as they breed?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2009, 03:44:54 pm »
I think the hard cap for animal breeding, whether tame or wild, is fifty or so.

Hopefully the hippos will stop breeding. Let us know if they breed beyond the vicinity of fifty.
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Re: Will wild animal spawns cap off at a certain population as they breed?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2009, 03:51:12 pm »
Yea, I had heard of the 50 unit cap for animal breeding, but I wanted to be absolutely sure as far as these hippos go.

I have no idea if these are particularily fruitful or not since on other embark areas, I haven't had the hippos do thier orgies.

The fact that they take 5 years to mature is going to go a long way towards helping me. Although if they keep up thier current breeding rate (27 or 28 calves now), it will cap off next year.
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