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[DoctorMonch]

I'm going to keep this simple.

I embarked in a good aligned Mangrove Swamp, bordering an ocean.
I was at 100 meat 80 drink, doing fairly well and getting all of the usual workshops and preparations ready.

I looked away for a bit, letting my miners mine some rooms and my hunter hunt some water buffalo.

When I checked back with my game, I found that the only combat that had taken place was between my hunter and one of the buffalo.

... yet I had over 2000 meat in my food storage.

I was obviously confused. I looked through the supplies, and somehow I had come upon a TON of butchered orca parts.

I looked through active jobs and found someone who was butchering, and someone hauling a corpse.

Turns out there were 3 more orcas on the way to the butcher's shop to be made into food.

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I did a quick search, and didn't find a topic on this, so... yeah.

Do orcas just swim ashore and offer themselves to Dwarven fortresses as gifts, now?

[Sorcerer]

Large sea animals actually have the tag[BEACH_FREQUENCY:#] in their raws, so yes, whales can beach themselves and give you a huge pile of whalemeat to eat, just beware the bad press when you do so.

[DoctorMonch]

Large sea animals actually have the tag[BEACH_FREQUENCY:#] in their raws, so yes, whales can beach themselves and give you a huge pile of whalemeat to eat, just beware the bad press when you do so.

Ah, that's fairly interesting...

Possibly a sign that it needs to be toned down, however, seeing as I've totaled about 5 orcas having beached themselves before summer.

[Solon64]

Reminds me of the Orca I bought from elves one time (masterwork mod).  Set it free (FREE WILLY!).  Three seconds later, it beached itself right there in the grotto I had released it from and it air-drowned.  I was shocked.  And hurt.  And confused.  Fortunately, my dwarves were hungry.

[Loud Whispers]

Completely random. Armok chooses to give no Whales to most, drown others in Orca fat and of the very few - send husk whales.

[caddybear]

Do not mention the husk whales. Tempting fate is what you're doing.

[Sphalerite]

Whales still beach themselves even when tame?

This bodes poorly for my plans for a war whale army.

[Oaktree]

Whales still beach themselves even when tame?

This bodes poorly for my plans for a war whale army.

Urist McPancake:  OK, which one of you bastards trained the sperm whale to beach itself and then "roll over"?