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[Nil Eyeglazed]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I never bothered to replace the PET_EXOTIC tag, and so I'm pretty excited about exotics becoming tameable.

Anybody have any preferred exotics they're especially excited about?

Right now I'm looking at the raws for a giant orca.  8 times the size of an elephant, no grazer tag.  I have a feeling something like that could absorb an awful lot of goblin arrows.  Of course, giant sponges are also exotics....

EDIT: Giant sperm whale.  40 times the size of an elephant.

[Kilroy the Grand]

Orcas are basically big dolphins. They are useless on land.

[Girlinhat]

Giant Orca would probably be best left untame anyways, easier to butcher...

Groundhogs, myself.

[Guedez]

time to make a underwater fort using vampires that can't drown. then WAR WHALES

[Aoi]

Kind of reminds me of an episode of Highlander, where one of the immortals was shackled, stuffed into a sack and thrown into a river. He basically drowned, woke up a few minutes later and drowned again for something like sixty years...

I'm assuming vampires just don't need to breathe at all though.

[Guedez]

nah, they probably don't even try to move into water, even if they can survive underwater forever(nor sure if they can tough)
probably because normal dwarves don't, and they might get suspicious.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

Orcas are basically big dolphins. They are useless on land.

All you got to do is run goblins past your aquarium.  Preferably on a narrow pathway.

Giant Orca would probably be best left untame anyways, easier to butcher...

Can't you butcher dead tames?  Assuming they weren't pets?

I do wonder how slaughter/pen/chain orders work on aquatics.  Does the aquatic need to be able to walk to get dragged to its destination?


EDIT: Oh hey, cool, cave blobs are pet_exotic and immortal.

[Aoi]

If I recall my aquatics properly, orcas ARE dolphins, though they're better known as killer whales. As in Shamu.

[Girlinhat]

Underwater structures don't work, so aquatic civilizations aren't viable, sadly.

You can butcher wild animals that have died by any means.  Untamed creatures made to fall from a great height can be butchered - see "Mermaid Bone Farm."

[PhantomXD]

Good point with the new feature on the way i might have to revisit some old threads. (that mermaid thread was what originally got me into DF)

Good luck on future weaponizing my fellow DFers.

The mermaid bone thread for those that haven't read it: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=25967.0

[thegoatgod_pan]

Cavern fort.  I had one with modding and it was lovely.  Having legitimate battle jabberers will be even better.

[Supernerd]

Giant Cave Spiders and Rocs. That's what I want to tame.

[acetech09]

EDIT: Oh hey, cool, cave blobs are pet_exotic and immortal.

I think you're thinking of flesh balls. Cave blobs are orange things who will, upon contact, give your dwarves minor blistering.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

EDIT: Oh hey, cool, cave blobs are pet_exotic and immortal.

I think you're thinking of flesh balls. Cave blobs are orange things who will, upon contact, give your dwarves minor blistering.

No, you can't tame flesh balls.  Cave blobs are orange things who will, upon contact, give my dwarves minor blistering, and are also tameable and immortal.  I like immortality.  I put immortal things in tiny watch towers and make them run ridiculous civilians-trigger logic circuits.

Edit: Oh, immortal as in no maxage, not immortal as in you can't chop them into tiny bits.

[imperium3]

Aren't cave blobs basically liquid and very killable indeed? I swear I had one turn up a while ago and a hunter took it down with a single shot.