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[Shadowlord]

I would propose that when vermin are not controlled, they can mess with your crops and food stocks:
1. Rats can transform growing plants into rat weed.
2. Rats can transform plants in barrels/stockpiles/etc into rat weed.
3. Rat weed produces more rats.
4. You can still brew rat weed, so you may actually want to make a contained area with lots of vermin for producing rat weed, while keeping plenty of cats to prevent it in the rest of your fort.

This idea comes from a dream I had last night, actually - one of those dreams where the dream is of a game that you've played. My farms were being overrun by rats, who were transforming my plants into rat weed, and producing more rats.

An alternative would be if, instead of being rat weed and rats, it was a fungal disease and spores, with everything else besides prevention being the same as proposed. Then it would be similar to real life's huitlacoche.

[Silveron]

Not quite what you're after but in the same vein.

Bloat12, VERMIN TROUBLE, (Future): More vermin trouble for farmers in general. This makes vermin hunting pets more essential to have around. There can be various funny farm vermin. They could burrow in the farms. Creatures outside could also make burrows.

Bloat18, VERMIN AND DISEASE, (Future): Link vermin to plagues.

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