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[kotekzot]

Just give them [NO_EAT][NO_DRINK] and gen a new world. If you want to play as kobolds remove it after the world has been generated.

[Eric Blank]

Bonecarn causes them to eat bones and meat only. There is a small chance of them choking on bones when trying to eat them, but no other effects. Being carnivorous does not forbid farming, but they wont produce plant-based food unless they have the outdoor_farming tag and their default site is a human city, in their entity file.
What I don't know though is whether growing plants for food provides for carnivorous creatures or not.

[Sir Iryn]

Did a little bit of SCIENCE, BONECARN seems to be the biggest factor in Kobolds not surviving.

[Quietust]

There is a small chance of them choking on bones when trying to eat them

[citation needed]

[Aachen]

edit: Woah, I don't even know what happened. Totally replied to the wrong thread. Apologies.

[JAFANZ]

I currently have 5 worlds (@ 100y, 150y, & 3x298y) that all have (unmodified AFAIK) kobolds.

I have implemented "No Exotic Pets" & "No Aquifer" modifications, so if Kobolds normally have a Pet_Exotic tag, that will have been modified.

The easy way to find out whether or not your world has surviving kobolds is to check for them in the "Sites" document that is generated when you "export images" at the end of world gen, & which may also be generated if you "export images" mid-game.

[Kaos]

Ok it's this: new worldgen routine was added recently which keeps track of food at each site. As Kobolds never farm and never hunt, they die out at Year 4 unless they successfully get a stealing industry going. Most fail to do that, some get very lucky. So if you want Kobolds, either mod them so they don't need to eat/drink during worldgen or end worldgen at year 2~3. Only downside of a very early worldgen is a lower availability of resources for trade because civs don't have sites spread out yet. On the upside, you get less random history in your decorations.

You can also remove [BONECARN] from their creature RAWs and add [OUTDOOR_FARMING] to their entity, if, say, you want to play your own version of kobold camp or something and also have the benefit of kobold caravans.

what do you need to mod to get the caravans??

[Couchmonster]

What happened to this topic?

So is it really the only option to mod raws?
Is it a bug or intended that they are dying out when they dont steal food?

Maybe Toady One can give us some insight in this! I wanna kill Kobolds like in earlier versions

[Dwarfu]

It is a known bug and Toady has already worked on it (see Dev Notes).

I also put in some extra precautions and tweaks so that dwarves form markets properly and are more survivable in world gen. Kobolds as well.

[tommy521]

Sometimes you get lucky. On my current fortress (started in year 50) I have plenty of the little buggers running around!

[Kaos]

What happened to this topic?

So is it really the only option to mod raws?
Is it a bug or intended that they are dying out when they dont steal food?

Maybe Toady One can give us some insight in this! I wanna kill Kobolds like in earlier versions

Well, it seems that vanilla kobolds need to steal their source of food and in most cases they're unsuccessful, so an easy fix is to mod the raws and add the [no_eat][no_drink] tags, like the goblins have.


If you want to get kobold caravans, I think there is another topic around about that....