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[Witty]

Right now, all dwarf civilizations have a list of domesticated creatures, and a list of creatures they are generally familiar with. As a small suggestion, allow some of these GF creatures to become fully domesticated during world gen. It isn't the culture arc, but it would certainly pose an interesting dilemma during embark, and would help make your civ's caravan much more interesting if they brought fully tamed cave crocodiles.

[weenog]

I'd rather see the bug that makes it impossible to domesticate a species yourself be fixed.

[Knight Otu]

I'd rather see the bug that makes it impossible to domesticate a species yourself be fixed.

That's not a bug, it's a design decision for now due to how domesticated animals and their breeds work.

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If the civ's knowledge is all the way up at domesticated, the animal becomes Tame as before and never reverts.  As it stands, you can't yet cross the boundary to domesticated from a wild beast, since there's extra infrasture to be dealt with with breeds and all that.  Children inherit their training status from their parents, and if a trainer gets to an animal when it is young, it becomes Tame and never reverts.  The word "trained" is somewhat weird that way.  It doesn't refer to how many tricks the animal knows, but more how acclimated it is to dwarven life.  So a "masterfully trained" animal will have "masterfull trained" children which can be raised up to tame if you catch them early, but after some years of complete inattention, the masterfully trained parent can revert back down the ladder all the way to semi-wild and wild.  Tame creatures will have tame children that never need basic training.  So you can eventually get up to a population that is essentially domestic, with your trained exotics having trained children which are tamed and then have tamed children for all generations after that.  However, this won't give you "domestic" civ knowledge -- which means that a new exotic of that species which you capture will still have to be trained and reinforced (instead of jumping up to Tame).

[Deepblade]

With the next release won't we be able to potentially export Giant Black Bear cages and be able to order them from the caravans once we've saturated the market enough?

[Witty]

With the next release won't we be able to potentially export Giant Black Bear cages and be able to order them from the caravans once we've saturated the market enough?

I'm reasonably sure there is nothing in the next release that will change either the market or caravans.

[weenog]

Really?  Shit.  I was told stopping at General Familiarity was unintended behaviour, and looking forward to that ending.

[Deepblade]

Really?  Shit.  I was told stopping at General Familiarity was unintended behaviour, and looking forward to that ending.

I thought I had read somewhere that our exports would change what is buyable in the world next release, maybe it was wishful thinking.

Really?  Shit.  I was told stopping at General Familiarity was unintended behaviour, and looking forward to that ending.

You can locally domesticate, but not domesticate on a civ scale. I know that cause I did it with wild boars. Man, that was a LOT of bacon.

[weenog]

Yes, I've done local domestication too.  I had one fortress where everything was made of badger parts.  Including the weapons, armor, and guardian animals.  Would be nice to be able to embark later from the same civilization and bring along some of those critters, though.

[Larix]

Hmm, maybe tamed exotic animals could be a trade good from your civ if you retired the fort instead of abandoning it? To have such animals domesticated for your whole civ (and have them available at embark) it'd make sense that your animal-training fort would have to become the mountainhome.

[Boea]

I guess for the animals to be exotic, their wide-spread adoption would have to be severely limited, in most cases due to rarity, or danger. :/