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[Dorten]

I recently looked at the statues in my fort. The central one in dwarves' dining hall was a masterful marble statue of a dwarf embracing naked mole dog.
My first thought: so that's why they eat at stockpile so often!

[WealthyRadish]

I once had a dwarf that simultaneously detested and preferred to eat snails.

[djsmiley2k]

I did get a dwarf that liked elves, but he got killed by zombies five seconds after he arrived. (It was a terrifying tundra).

I've also gotten one that liked both slade and raw candy, and made him the baron just because of that.

Ah yes, this will be fun when he starts turning out mandates

[Vodrilus]

I did get a dwarf that liked elves, but he got killed by zombies five seconds after he arrived. (It was a terrifying tundra).

I've also gotten one that liked both slade and raw candy, and made him the baron just because of that.

Ah yes, this will be fun when he starts turning out mandates

Sadly, material-based mandates are no more. How I miss all those demands for native aluminium...

[Quietust]

Yeah, it's not often, probably because there're just so many animals in general, and dwarves don't seems to generally have likes for things they've not encountered ( that or I misses out a lot of stuffs in long-term fortress, I know traders brings all kind of craps in ).

Anyhoo, I suppose this is all related to - as AutomataKittay pointed out upthread - dwarves developing preferences for things they've encountered.

The game has been that way for a LONG time - even back in the old 2D versions, Dwarves were generated with inactive preferences for things you've never seen before, and those preferences got "activated" once the thing in question showed up on your map (i.e. the first time a pack of wolves shows up on the map, some dwarves might suddenly "decide" that they like them, and dwarves wouldn't claim to like Electrum until the Dungeon Master arrived and allowed you to start making it).

[XXSockXX]

The game has been that way for a LONG time - even back in the old 2D versions, Dwarves were generated with inactive preferences for things you've never seen before, and those preferences got "activated" once the thing in question showed up on your map (i.e. the first time a pack of wolves shows up on the map, some dwarves might suddenly "decide" that they like them, and dwarves wouldn't claim to like Electrum until the Dungeon Master arrived and allowed you to start making it).

But some preferences are randomly generated when a dwarf enters the map, right? I ask because a) I had a king once who liked gutter cruor, which didn't physically exist in that world (pocket world with only an evil ocean) and b) I know you can "savescum" to get a no-mandate/no-item preference King, his preferences will be different on every re-load.

[Vndetta]

The game has been that way for a LONG time - even back in the old 2D versions, Dwarves were generated with inactive preferences for things you've never seen before, and those preferences got "activated" once the thing in question showed up on your map (i.e. the first time a pack of wolves shows up on the map, some dwarves might suddenly "decide" that they like them, and dwarves wouldn't claim to like Electrum until the Dungeon Master arrived and allowed you to start making it).

That's really cool. I sadly hadn't heard of the game prior to more recent versions, so I missed the Dungeon Master fun, among other things. Of course many of the old posts I read through on the forums seem to indicate I'm lucky for that, haha.

I wonder... this would mean that preferences can change in the middle of a fortress mode game in our current version, right? Does it only happen when a dwarf encounters something new to them, or can it happen anytime with anything, as long as they're currently being exposed to it? Would existing preferences ever disappear, being superseded by new ones, or is it all additive? Maybe new preferences being added rather than replaced would explain a dwarf who liked and detested the same creature, now that I think of it.

[Kaitlyn]

I have a dwarf who likes humans as well. Which is odd since I've also modded humans to be babysnatchers and thieves... The only one I've seen though was a weretortoise.

[Ganthan]

If a military dwarf who likes humans ends up killing some during a human siege, does it give him a happy or a sad thought?

[pisskop]

Likes Humans for their blood. 0.o

[FrisianDude]

I once had a dwarf that simultaneously detested and preferred to eat snails.

Ha-HA, fuck you snails. *Slrp*