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[Yovatsap]

Is there any way I can stop the "complained about the draft lately" thought besides not recruiting the guy?

[greycat]

Is there any way I can stop the "complained about the draft lately" thought besides not recruiting the guy?

Get the dwarf up to Novice in at least one weapon skill, or wrestling, so that his military title is no longer "Recruit", and that thought will not occur.

[Xen0n]

I believe in earlier versions, fishing / hunting were troublesome because of how easy it was to make wild animals go extinct.  I essentially gave up on hunting / fishing altogether after experiences like emptying the river of all life after just a few seasons of a single dwarf fishing, or hearing tales of hers of wild reindeer / rhinos / etc. go extinct from just a few battles. 

Is this still the case?  If so, is there some way to make animals an inexhaustable resource instead?

[ab9rf]

Is this still the case?  If so, is there some way to make animals an inexhaustable resource instead?

Certainly it's possible to feed a fort indefinitely on domesticated animals.  Doing it by hunting is probably much harder, not only because of the wildlife exhaustion issue, but also because of the problem of keeping the hunters in ammo.

That said, I've noticed that my forts don't seem to run out of fish and game nearly as fast as they used to.  But this may be because autolabor strictly limits the number of hunting and fishing dwarfs to one at a time, and because I tend to play in savage biomes, which have more wildlife in general.

[Sphalerite]

The fact that [PET_EXOTIC] creatures breed now, and many common wild creatures are [PET_EXOTIC], seems to make it harder to depopulate the wild animal population.  It's still possible, but you have to work harder at it since the population recovers over time.

[Xen0n]

The fact that [PET_EXOTIC] creatures breed now, and many common wild creatures are [PET_EXOTIC], seems to make it harder to depopulate the wild animal population.  It's still possible, but you have to work harder at it since the population recovers over time.

Thanks, this is very hopeful news for me!  I may actually consider enabling some Hunters now (I never used to because I didn't want to 'use up' all the wildlife in the background and end up in a desolate, boring safe place.)

[FengYun]

Could someone please explain to me how exactly do you train animals in 0.34.x? I know it is a dumb question and probably have been answered many times before. However I can't find any buttons or whatnot in Pets/Livestock screen. I also have know idea how to see what kinds of animals my civilization is familiar with, the feature which many people talk about. Screenshots would be much appreciated. I don't get how to train even dogs now and it makes me really sad.

UPD: I have 0.34.07 version without any mods. I also tried Masterwork mod, but it is no surprise I do not see the option to train animals there either. There is a dwarf with animal training labour turned on, I also built kennels, just to be sure I did not miss anything. I found some posts on the forum that said I need to pasture animals in a special zone before they are trained, so I did this too. I want to learn to train my dogs into war dogs as well as to train monkeys that I caught before to become tame. Thank you.

[FuzzyZergling]

Go to the Z-Animals screen ([z]->[ENTER]) and scroll down to the animal you want trained.
Press [t] to assign a trainer, who will then go to the animal and start training it (I believe wild animals must be in a cage for this).
Semi-wild animals need re-enforcement training to stay tamed. For this set up a training zone and release the animal from their cage. The trainer will periodically drag the animal to the zone for training.

[FengYun]

FuzzyZergling, thank you very much. I thought it was Pets/Livestock screen where I should look for, but Animal screen turned out to be a completely new list. Thank you. My animals are all very happy now.

[ab9rf]

Semi-wild animals need re-enforcement training to stay tamed. For this set up a training zone and release the animal from their cage. The trainer will periodically drag the animal to the zone for training.

While you need a training zone, I've noticed that trainers do not actually drag the animal to the training zone, at least not in all cases.  Specifically, egglayers who are brooding will be trained in situ.

[Tirion]

How can I put a ghost to rest, if it's name doesn't turn up in the list of engraveable names (for slab) and his corpse isn't listd among the corpses in the stockpile? He keeps claiming a coffin but nothing is put in, most probably he was a thoroughly burned caravan guard.

[FuzzyZergling]

Semi-wild animals need re-enforcement training to stay tamed. For this set up a training zone and release the animal from their cage. The trainer will periodically drag the animal to the zone for training.

While you need a training zone, I've noticed that trainers do not actually drag the animal to the training zone, at least not in all cases.  Specifically, egglayers who are brooding will be trained in situ.

Ah, that's good to know. I still think you need to release them from their cage, though (possible exception if the cage is built in the training zone).

[MehMuffin]

The fact that [PET_EXOTIC] creatures breed now, and many common wild creatures are [PET_EXOTIC], seems to make it harder to depopulate the wild animal population.  It's still possible, but you have to work harder at it since the population recovers over time.

Thanks, this is very hopeful news for me!  I may actually consider enabling some Hunters now (I never used to because I didn't want to 'use up' all the wildlife in the background and end up in a desolate, boring safe place.)

I find that setting peasant migrants to hunting and having bone and wooden bolts on repeat construction gives you a fairly lethal force of crossbowdwarves in a few years. And plenty of unicorn meat roasts!

[ab9rf]

Ah, that's good to know. I still think you need to release them from their cage, though (possible exception if the cage is built in the training zone).

I don't know about that.  I have a fort around here somewhere where I've domesticated about a dozen species.  The females are allowed to roam (in a pen of course, or pasture for the grazers) so they can reproduce, but I keep nongrazer males caged.  I've found that they'll never reach "tame" in the first generation, but the second generation is born with the same taming level as the mother, and babies tame far more easily than adults, so usually the second generation is tame by the time they reach adulthood.  I'll have to try making my nongrazer female pasture a "training zone" and see if that matters.  (Doesn't really matter if the males are tame or not since they stay caged all the time anyway.)

Domesticated giant ravens are the bomb for producing food for the fort.  Although you do end up collecting a lot of useless feathers over time.

[lleu]

Is there any way to make the wildlife in the caverns come to my traps? Like setting a bait animal or something?