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schussel

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Catching those hippos
« on: October 25, 2010, 05:10:12 am »
well for trying to find new ways ..

what do you veterans suggest as a method to catch water based animals  for taming (esp. hippos and crocs .. maybe carps and stuff too)

i cant figure out a way  besides draining the river
« Last Edit: October 25, 2010, 05:15:13 am by schussel »
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FleshForge

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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2010, 05:39:59 am »
Hippos actually come out of the water, they're not too hard to catch.  For fish, you can divert the water in some way and build traps on the water/lake bottom, and let the water back in.  Freezing embark areas make this a lot easier.
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Demonic Spoon

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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2010, 06:10:17 am »
Try putting cage traps along the edge of the river. Or chain up a bait animal and surround him with cage traps.
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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2010, 06:38:26 am »
Hippos aren't agressive, they won't react to a bait animal - might work for crocodiles though!
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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2010, 06:58:48 am »
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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2010, 07:22:30 am »
Quote from: schussel on October 25, 2010, 05:10:12 am
well for trying to find new ways ..

what do you veterans suggest as a method to catch water based animals  for taming (esp. hippos and crocs .. maybe carps and stuff too)

i cant figure out a way  besides draining the river

Hippos do come on land occasionally, but I haven't been able to tame any of them in .16 vanilla. - I don't have a dungeon master, but do have a duke. Elephants are tamed ok.
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schussel

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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2010, 08:49:40 am »
well i modded the game with unexotic or what it was called .. till the DM is coming back ^^
i rigged the whole riverside with cagetraps now .. now i only get warthogs and lions .. (ok latters in a female/male pair .. yay breeding :)) no elefants so far too :/
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FleshForge

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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2010, 08:57:35 am »
From the hippo's raw entry:
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[BIOME:RIVER_TROPICAL_SALTWATER]
[BIOME:RIVER_TROPICAL_BRACKISHWATER]
[BIOME:RIVER_TROPICAL_FRESHWATER]
[BIOME:LAKE_TROPICAL_SALTWATER]
[BIOME:LAKE_TROPICAL_BRACKISHWATER]
[BIOME:LAKE_TROPICAL_FRESHWATER]
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schussel

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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2010, 02:47:56 pm »
sure .. the fact is they were there on gamestart now theres only milkfishes in the water and warthogs and lions outside ^^ maybe i gotta kill off the fishes with soldiers :) 3 fishermen somehow dont get this job done ...
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Psieye

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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2010, 03:17:14 pm »
What fishermen catch is totally separate to fish you actually see on the map. You'll need something like a flood of war dogs or maybe some swimming soldiers. More drastic solutions are always available of course - from magma to cave-in bombing.
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schussel

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Re: Catching those hippos
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2010, 05:04:43 pm »
funny thing about hippos .. i see em in lots of embarks  .. at the beginning .. in all last embarks with tropical rivers .. they are exiastent when the game starts .. run off .. and never reappear again ..  instead there are hordes (literally) of warthogs or elephants .. latest game just from my hippotraps on the rivers edge i got about 40 elephants sofar in the 5th year
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