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Khanis

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Goats will eat anything...
« on: April 11, 2012, 06:05:08 pm »

Including Yak heart, liver, and intestines. As a result of a zombie invasion, i was forced underground and pulled all my livestock with me. Only the goats remain, but i figured they were doomed to starve as well, until i watched dwarves bring them pieces of other animals to remove their Starving tag.

Does it have something to do with them being owned by people, or do I need to train these meat eating goats for fortress defense?
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GhostDwemer

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Re: Goats will eat anything...
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2012, 06:07:27 pm »

People only feed their pets, and they can use any food.
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Re: Goats will eat anything...
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2012, 06:11:30 pm »

Does it have something to do with them being owned by people

If they're pets (this includes assigned war/hunting animals) they'll be fed whatever is in a nearby food stockpile by their owner to keep them from starving. One suggested method for keeping tamed elephants alive was to get them adopted immediately and dedicate a dwarf to shoveling food in to their mouths.
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Sphalerite

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Re: Goats will eat anything...
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2012, 06:13:14 pm »

There is a creature tag that makes a creature only able to eat meat, but there is no creature tag for only eating plants.
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