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[mek42]

I don't usually start butchering until year 3 or so and was wondering what I could do with the large animals that came with the wagon.  Can I breed them and then sell off the offspring?  Would I need to put them in cages first?  Would this work for cats and bunnies too?  What would happen if I sold someone's pet (is this even possible)?

[Girlinhat]

They'd need to be in cages, and pets cannot be caged.  The [PETVALUE:X] determines how valuable they are to trade.

In the newest version, I think wild animals may be tradable as well.  Perhaps goblins.

[Thor]

woah woah woah woah.

We can move cages to the Depot without the creatures automatically being let out now? Since when?

time to inflict cat x100000 upon the elves.

[Girlinhat]

It's recent, I'm not sure if it actually works.

Either way, there's a trick to putting a cage on the depot, which means it won't get hauled and thus the animal won't escape.  You can dump the cage into a garbage zone which is on top of the depot, or you can build the cage into a 1x1 cubbyhole in the wall and deconstruct it, causing it to "pop out" and land on the depot.  When a dwarf tries to haul it, they'll walk over to it, and then leave it, because it's already on the depot.

Goblins have been traded using this method.  You just have to make sure the cage is atop the depot before you assign it to be traded.

[KodKod]

Wait until year three and butcher all the horses that you have at that point.

Living creatures don't have a quality level attached to them.

[Girlinhat]

Living creatures don't have a quality level attached to them.

Bone crafts and prepared meals do.

[KodKod]

Bone crafts and prepared meals do.

There is a kind of morbid beauty in that everything in Dwarf Fortress is more valuable dead than alive.

It makes me feel all tingly inside.

[Sphalerite]

In my current community fort, I have successfully traded semi-trained giant animals to the trade caravans.  I don't know if it's possible to trade completely wild animals yet, but trained and tame ones should work fine.

[Sadrice]

Could you use webbed traps to cage and sell pets?  Would the owner suffer an unhappy thought?  Maybe you could even use this method to sell stray dwarven children.  Perhaps we could supply the elven meat industry with fine quality dwarf veal (contained in nickle cages, of course).

[LurchyMcSmokins]

I can safely say, anything in a cage may be traded, altho the value of such a trade, might not be worthwhile. i remember selling wild animals to a trader, and getting very little tacked on to the cage value.

[RAKninja]

Could you use webbed traps to cage and sell pets?  Would the owner suffer an unhappy thought?  Maybe you could even use this method to sell stray dwarven children.  Perhaps we could supply the elven meat industry with fine quality dwarf veal (contained in nickle cages, of course).

my experiences with playing as goblins tells me this may qualify as "abduction".

[Fenrisson]

They'd need to be in cages, and pets cannot be caged.  The [PETVALUE:X] determines how valuable they are to trade.

In the newest version, I think wild animals may be tradable as well.  Perhaps goblins.

Caged greenskins should be striped of their belongings and used for military training and trap-testing!
No - real Dwarf gives away his Spoils when he can run his own Colosseum!!!

[Garath]

Could you use webbed traps to cage and sell pets?  Would the owner suffer an unhappy thought?  Maybe you could even use this method to sell stray dwarven children.  Perhaps we could supply the elven meat industry with fine quality dwarf veal (contained in nickle cages, of course).

my experiences with playing as goblins tells me this may qualify as "abduction".

And?

[SuicideJunkie]

Better yet, you can fill the hospital's ICU ward with cage traps.
Let the Elves be torn apart by the vengeful ghosts, and save yourself the trouble of tombs and slabs.

[Psieye]

Could you use webbed traps to cage and sell pets?  Would the owner suffer an unhappy thought?  Maybe you could even use this method to sell stray dwarven children.  Perhaps we could supply the elven meat industry with fine quality dwarf veal (contained in nickle cages, of course).

my experiences with playing as goblins tells me this may qualify as "abduction".

And?

That dictates how the dwarves' thoughts get influenced by such removals. As I recall, dwarven parents don't give a damn when their children are abducted.