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[assasin]

Honestly, I can make an elf pet in three seconds and I can't figure out a dragon. ugh.

[Garath]

This might be because your home civ then actually has to go and get a tame dragon. Just like they don't offer all possible animals (after removing _EXOTIC from their PET tags) due to their geographic location, I imagine they don't automatically have dragons. Perhaps if they got into the "domestic animals - always available" list?

[Xinael]

You need to give them the tag COMMON_DOMESTIC to have them come along at embark. There are two requirements for that to work - the first is that they have PET rather than PET_EXOTIC or MOUNT rather than MOUNT_EXOTIC and the creature must not have FANCIFUL (I think it needs replacing with NATURAL). You might also want to consider removing the MEGABEAST tag; I'm not sure how that interacts with COMMON_DOMESTIC.

It might be worth making another creature entirely ("lesser dragon" or something) to add these mods to; if you change the existing dragon creature definition you're liable to change their behaviour.

[Garath]

and simply remove the "old" dragon from the world too

maybe creating firedrakes? not to be confused with the male duck drake

[assasin]

You need to give them the tag COMMON_DOMESTIC to have them come along at embark. There are two requirements for that to work - the first is that they have PET rather than PET_EXOTIC or MOUNT rather than MOUNT_EXOTIC and the creature must not have FANCIFUL (I think it needs replacing with NATURAL). You might also want to consider removing the MEGABEAST tag; I'm not sure how that interacts with COMMON_DOMESTIC.

It might be worth making another creature entirely ("lesser dragon" or something) to add these mods to; if you change the existing dragon creature definition you're liable to change their behaviour.

Thanks! That worked.

[Keldane]

This can be both a lot of fun and incredibly dangerous. I modded in a smaller version of the dragon - size of a cat, in fact - that acted like cats in hunting vermin and adopting dwarves. It ended tragically for one rather popular dwarven child when the drakes discovered a goblin kidnapper between themselves and the child they were following. The kid melted, the goblin escaped unscathed, and the world burned in a raging grass fire.

[Garath]

the lesson hard learned in many burning fortress is that if you keep fire breathing pets, you need fire resistant dwarfs

[Smew]

maybe creating firedrakes? not to be confused with the male duck drake

I want to make fire-breathing ducks and have them guard a fortress now.

[Broken]

give them [WAGON_PULLER] and remove that tag in horses yaks and mules. Now your embark will begin with two free dragons.