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[ResMar]

Some sort of falconry should be implemented in the game, ae. allowing you to catch, tame, and train peregrine falcons for hunting - especially for killing and bringing in ducks, buzzards, and the like.

[NW_Kohaku]

Can't you already do this?  Peregrine falcons are in the game and can be trained, although because of pathfinding woes in general, they don't fly.

[jaxy15]

Can't you already do this?  Peregrine falcons are in the game and can be trained, although because of pathfinding woes in general, they don't fly.

What the guy is suggesting is making peregrines hunt and kill those damn buzzards and other small birds. Birds of prey don't really kill roaches and thrips all the time.

[ResMar]

Exactly. Easy to implement (do what they always do, just bring their kills to their trainers), makes sense, and would finally give us a way to get rid of those bloody buzzards.

Edit: They don't fly? ...well I suppose that would need to get fixed first...

[ResMar]

This could be implemented for peregrine falcons, eagles, great horned owls, and snowy owls. They all hunt buzzards and the like and small land mammals like hares already, right?

[GreatWyrmGold]

It would get better if you bought a couple of giant pergerine falcolns from some elves. Or if you tamed a roc...

I think that this should be something that can be trained on top of a hunting animal as it lready exists. Maybe a "normal" hunting animal only hunts when its master does, but an "upgraded" (for lack of a better word) hunting animal can hunt autonomously.

[dizzyelk]

It would get better if you bought a couple of giant pergerine falcolns from some elves. Or if you tamed a roc...

I think that this should be something that can be trained on top of a hunting animal as it lready exists. Maybe a "normal" hunting animal only hunts when its master does, but an "upgraded" (for lack of a better word) hunting animal can hunt autonomously.

Sorta like how the cats hunt vermin, but with larger critters. Based on size of the trained animal, I'd imagine. So A falcon can hunt smaller critters, but a roc could be out hunting horses or something.

[ResMar]

Horse-hunting rocs? Me gusta

[GreatWyrmGold]

It would get better if you bought a couple of giant pergerine falcolns from some elves. Or if you tamed a roc...

I think that this should be something that can be trained on top of a hunting animal as it lready exists. Maybe a "normal" hunting animal only hunts when its master does, but an "upgraded" (for lack of a better word) hunting animal can hunt autonomously.

Sorta like how the cats hunt vermin, but with larger critters. Based on size of the trained animal, I'd imagine. So A falcon can hunt smaller critters, but a roc could be out hunting horses or something.

Kinda like that, yeah. Hm, maybe the [VERMIN_HUNTER] behavior could be replaced by something like [HUNTER:X:Y], where X can be TRAINED (requires training, like I described above) or NATURAL (does not require training, like cats, and perhaps done by wild animals) and Y is the number of times bigger the hunter has to be to hunt a given animal (e.g. Y=10 on a Size 500000 creature means that it won't hunt adult dwarves but will hunt kobolds and younger dwarves).

Horse-hunting rocs? Me gusta

You're thinking small. If I recall correctly, the original rocs were also called elephant birds. That wasn't their name because they had trunks.