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Urist McDwarfFortress

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Pigs!
« on: October 11, 2012, 03:11:31 pm »

I've just discovered these incredibly useful animals! (Well, I always knew they existed, but I just didn't really bother with them)

PIGS DON'T GRAZE! You can stick a pair of pigs in a little stone room and forget about them. Eventually you'll have a herd. They produce milk, which you can turn into delicious, and relatively valuable, pig cheese. This can be an infinite source of food for your whole fortress, and it requires absolutely nothing to maintain! Just stash a pile of pigs in a room somewhere near your farmer's workshops! They also give you leather, bones, and quite a bit of meat when they're slaughtered.

They have joined sheep and turkeys as the only livestock I think are worth having. (Unless you count giant cave spiders as "livestock")
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Sorry, for a moment there I forgot we were all psychopaths.
Someone who has random urges to make mog juice isn't exactly going to care about the cost effectiveness of obtaining it.

Drazinononda

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2012, 03:17:44 pm »

Dude
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Children you rescue shouldn't behave like rabid beasts.  I guess your regular companions shouldn't act like rabid beasts either.
I think that's a little more impossible than I'm likely to have time for.

Bloodyharbinger

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2012, 03:25:56 pm »

Dude?
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Drazinononda

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2012, 03:30:56 pm »

What else needs to be said?
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Children you rescue shouldn't behave like rabid beasts.  I guess your regular companions shouldn't act like rabid beasts either.
I think that's a little more impossible than I'm likely to have time for.

Craterface

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2012, 03:38:51 pm »



Weaponiiiiise
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DJ

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2012, 03:39:49 pm »

War pig does have a certain ring to it.
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Cue magma.
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Owlbread

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2012, 03:43:52 pm »

War pig does have a certain ring to it.


It certainly does.
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Urist McDwarfFortress

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2012, 03:45:06 pm »

Weaponiiiiise
I suppose I could load up a minecart shotgun with cheese.
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Owlbread

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2012, 03:47:30 pm »

Weaponiiiiise
I suppose I could load up a minecart shotgun with cheese.

Or simply hogs.
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Urist McDwarfFortress

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2012, 03:50:04 pm »

I suppose I could load up a minecart shotgun with cheese.
Or simply hogs.
You can't load animals into a minecart. You'd have to put them in cages first and then load them up. In that case, you might as well just fling cages at your enemies.
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Sorry, for a moment there I forgot we were all psychopaths.
Someone who has random urges to make mog juice isn't exactly going to care about the cost effectiveness of obtaining it.

Owlbread

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2012, 03:53:02 pm »

I suppose I could load up a minecart shotgun with cheese.
Or simply hogs.
You can't load animals into a minecart. You'd have to put them in cages first and then load them up. In that case, you might as well just fling cages at your enemies.

Hogs.

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« Last Edit: October 11, 2012, 03:58:33 pm by Owlbread »
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Tirion

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2012, 04:11:35 pm »

I suppose I could load up a minecart shotgun with cheese.
Or simply hogs.
You can't load animals into a minecart. You'd have to put them in cages first and then load them up. In that case, you might as well just fling cages at your enemies.

Hogs.

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Evolutionary link to walrus confirmed. ;D
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Monk321654

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2012, 04:13:29 pm »

I suppose I could load up a minecart shotgun with cheese.
Or simply hogs.
You can't load animals into a minecart. You'd have to put them in cages first and then load them up. In that case, you might as well just fling cages at your enemies.

Hogs.

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Evolutionary link to walrus Eggman confirmed. ;D
That too.
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This is a side-effect of dwarven animal training (hit animal with hammer until it forgets that it hates you, then lovingly cuddle it).

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Owlbread

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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2012, 04:14:30 pm »

It is a bearded pig, a species native to Borneo. The most Dwarfly pig that there ever was.
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Re: Pigs!
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2012, 04:34:24 pm »

I prefer boars to pigs if I can capture them. They yield tusks.
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