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[Crazy Horse]

Can kittens grow to be cats while caged? I need more bone bolts but less pets.

[i2amroy]

Can kittens grow to be cats while caged? I need more bone bolts but less pets.

Yes. The only things that can't happen while creatures are in cages is drowning and breeding. Everything else (including the births from those already pregnant) continues like normal.

[hops]

Can kittens grow to be cats while caged? I need more bone bolts but less pets.

If I remember right young animals give the same butcher rate as their adult.

[Garath]

Can kittens grow to be cats while caged? I need more bone bolts but less pets.

If I remember right young animals give the same butcher rate as their adult.

you remember not right

Small animals give different butcher results and may be too small to give more than a skull and a few bones, and less bones at that

[Foxhound]

Thank you i2amroy and Sutremaine. Regarding a well, I figured if I made a few more buckets then I could bucket bomb enough, since there's usually some dwarves with no job.

Also I figured I'd want to save the animals for breeding.

edit: Oh, I was looking at the number of plants. I have 200 food and 17 dwarves.

Just curious but what's the most amount of dwarves anybody's ever gotten without modding?

[i2amroy]

edit: Oh, I was looking at the number of plants. I have 200 food and 17 dwarves.

Just curious but what's the most amount of dwarves anybody's ever gotten without modding?

That's much better then only 32 food.

And I believe somebody once managed to run a little over 500 dwarves, though I believe they were only getting about 15 FPS with nothing else going on.

Lastly a note for any future bucket bombing, and that is that each pond zone can only have one dwarf filling it at any given time. Therefore if you have a large area that you want to drop water on, it's better to make a series of small pond zones then just one large one.

[Foxhound]

Yeah it's kind of time consuming. I have a little method where one row to walk down and two rows with holes on either side (seen here http://imgur.com/0CQ1r88). So now I've got this much for 17 dwarves, which seems pretty good: http://postimage.org/image/w46pq8i2p/

[Foxhound]

I dug down to z-level 136 to semi-molten rock and haven't found any metal or coal. Should I dig sideways? Should I dig past the semi-molten rock?

edit: I guess I have struck limonite.

[i2amroy]

I dug down to z-level 136 to semi-molten rock and haven't found any metal or coal. Should I dig sideways? Should I dig past the semi-molten rock?

edit: I guess I have struck limonite.

Usually hitting the caverns reveals enough to be able to see nearby ores. Try going back up and digging sideways (watch out for hot rock, since the SMR has magma on top of it in most cases!). What types of metals did your embark have? If it had shallow metals then start digging out from near the top of the stone. If it had deep ones then try digging out from the bottom of your shaft.

[Foxhound]

I made sure it had both shallow and deep metals.

[joeclark77]

I made sure it had both shallow and deep metals.

Shallow metal or shallow metals? Deep metal or deep metals?
There's a wiki page on exploratory mining methods, but in my experience you don't need any fancy shapes -- just mine in a straight line across the map every 3rd or 5th level until you find some metal.  Start with the shallowest levels, that's where you'll find iron if you're lucky enough to have it.

[hops]

Does killing necromancers in a tower in Adventurer mode stop them from attacking my fort?

[i2amroy]

Does killing necromancers in a tower in Adventurer mode stop them from attacking my fort?

Yes. The game tracks how many necromancers are present in a tower, and once they are all dead they won't visit your fortress anymore.

[Foxhound]

If I'm near a river is it better to build a floodgate than a well in order to irrigate?

[Garath]

I'd prefer flooding, but would use a drawbridge since that can't be destroyed by goblin mounts (sometimes they have cave crocs etc)

First I'd ask - are you sure you need to irrigate? only rock needs to be irrigated, soil, such as clay, sand, peat... other stuff doesn't need anything extra