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[UristMcGunsmith]

   No, that isn't a typo, I refer to animals as ani-meals since that's all they're good for.
However, I recently started a megaproject (Turning a volcano into a giant housing facility for a weapons/armor factory) and totally forgot to bring animeals with me. Will my dwarves have unhappy thoughts because of a lack of meaty goodness? I get a bit of fish, and get all the meat I can when I trade (Two legendary metalcrafters, and a mountain full of magma and copper = win).

   So will they have unhappy thoughts? Or are they okay with this? They seem content on plump helmets and the occasional fish so far.

[martinuzz]

No worry.
Your dwarves won't get unhappy thoughts for it.
Apart from that, you'll have animals soon enough.. They tend to come along with migrant waves.

[Lord Dakoth]

Very minor unhappy thoughts, that is if there is only one kind of food. Which is where Dwarven Wine Roasts come in.

But nothing that a -Gabbro Statue- can't cure.

[RedWarrior0]

Don't caravans sometimes bring caged animated meals with them?

[Grendus]

You have any wild animals on your map? Even a base quality crossbow with base quality bone/wood arrows and an untrained hunter can bring home a good deal bacon, assuming you don't have a map full of werewolves or cougars.

Alternatively, dwarves who go to a new fortress are prepared for hardships like living on nothing but plants until the caravan brings some animeals.

[Hagadorn]

Yeh, Its really only migrants who get pissy about only one type of food...


then you just edit the raws that you can EAT dwarves...

Urist McButcher Cancels Butcher Self: Butchering Self.

"So what part do ye want? I've been working on me thighs, they should nice n meaty by now. I've also been force feeding meself grain and booze. So me liver should very creamy and ready for a nice Pate."

[Sartain]

If there's any sort of wildlife on your embark site, put up a dozen cage traps or two and you should capture some animals pretty quickly. Remember to have them tamed if they're aggressive and chain them up somewhere so they can breed. My current, population capped, fortress of 50 dwarves has maybe 200-300 animals in it, due to my war-wolf/war-cougar training program and intense breeding of various livestock for butchering purposes.
I kill off loads of the animals every second year or so and still it's hard to keep their numbers down to acceptable limits. And it all started with a handful of cage traps and immigrant pets.

So don't worry, you'll easily get some animal meaty goodness

[Elliott_Thinas]

Yeh, Its really only migrants who get pissy about only one type of food...


then you just edit the raws that you can EAT dwarves...

Urist McButcher Cancels Butcher Self: Butchering Self.

"So what part do ye want? I've been working on me thighs, they should nice n meaty by now. I've also been force feeding meself grain and booze. So me liver should very creamy and ready for a nice Pate."

'I'll just nip off and shoot myself, but don't worry, I'll be very humane dwarfane'