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GhostDwemer

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What do you do if an elephant comes in your fortress?
« on: May 04, 2011, 08:50:31 pm »
Swim. Ahahahaha, but seriously, I'm swimming in elephant parts right about now, a really good hunter just showed up and killed two, boom-boom, one after the other and now I'm afraid all that meat is going to rot. I think I need to build a second kitchen just to handle the surplus.

Now here's an even dwarfier joke about elephants.

Q. Why do ducks have flat feet?
A. To put out !!Shrubs!!

Q. Why do elephants have flat feet?
A. To put out !!ducks!!
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Re: What do you do if an elephant comes in your fortress?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2011, 08:57:40 pm »
Build larger stockpiles, even outside.  No food will rot on a stockpile, ever, although it will be eaten by vermin.  Barrels help, but, stockpiles first and foremost!
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Re: What do you do if an elephant comes in your fortress?
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2011, 09:11:23 pm »
I love this game, it wasn't really a problem at all because it all got done in stacks. I now have a stack of 137 dwarven ale roasts worth 17536, and a bunch of smaller stacks of elephant tallow roast. Yum!
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Re: What do you do if an elephant comes in your fortress?
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2011, 09:12:17 pm »
Quote from: GhostDwemer on May 04, 2011, 09:11:23 pm
I love this game, it wasn't really a problem at all because it all got done in stacks. I now have a stack of 137 dwarven ale roasts worth 17536, and a bunch of smaller stacks of elephant tallow roast. Yum!
MMMmmmmmm..... elephant fat....
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Re: What do you do if an elephant comes in your fortress?
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2011, 11:30:22 pm »
This is what you can make with elephant meat:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

44k and it's not even masterwork...
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Re: What do you do if an elephant comes in your fortress?
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2011, 11:59:40 pm »
there is a giant sandworm in the visible range of my fort's tunnels (playing genesis) it says that they have twice the meat of elephants >.> im probably gonna try using it as live fire training for my one marksdwarf...
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Re: What do you do if an elephant comes in your fortress?
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2011, 12:41:19 am »
I've had to create separate food stockpiles for individual butchered creatures just to avoid high-value meat rotting away. I recently killed a dragon (no time to build a cage trap to catch it; otherwise it would have been a treasure to keep), and my food stockpiles are almost always full, especially my meat/egg/fish stock.
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