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[jaxler]

I have some in my biome and I wanna use em to ride down goblins.

[Dangerous Beans]

if you remove their [GRAZER] tag they won't need to eat grass, which stops them starving to death while you train them. or just starving to death when in a pasture where they have trampled all the grass.
you then need to add the [TRAINABLE] tag to make War Rhinos.
you will still need to trap them and do the initial training, look at the wiki for that.

dwarfs cannot ride creatures, so you can't have them as a mount. i think if you modded the [MOUNT_EXOTIC] tag to [MOUNT] you may be able to get human invaders riding them.
i think if you added [MOUNT] to trolls you would be able to get goblins riding trolls.

[Demetrious]

Look in your Dorf Fort folder, under "saves," then whatever region your fort's in, then click "raws." Ctrl-f for the creature name, then again in the text file that comes up till you find the right critter. That's where you want to put the tags.

This page has more information on setting the GRAZER thing: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Grazer

Set the "GRAZER" number to something less punishingly stupid, like 500 or 600, and you should be good. I just tweaked the grazer number of water buffalo because I was disgusted with their inability to eat fast enough to not die with a gigantic pasture, in a swamp.

[jaxler]

Well I did it. So... how good are rhinos as war animals exactly?

[Garath]

pretty good, though better if the growth bug is fixed and their young grow up. They're big and heavy (+), have horn(s) (+) and stomp pretty hard (+). Plus, if one gets too injured to fight, you get a lot of meat

[jaxler]

pretty good, though better if the growth bug is fixed and their young grow up. They're big and heavy (+), have horn(s) (+) and stomp pretty hard (+). Plus, if one gets too injured to fight, you get a lot of meat

and that bug is fixed hao?

[Garath]

there is a script you can use through dfhack, the current LNP has a fix in it for that bug too iirc, but I'm no good at the how part.

In any case, it pretty much only affects rhinos born at your fort, who don't grow that fast in any case, so no need to worry about it yet

[VerdantSF]

Due to their size and blunt attacks, they can even kill iron-armored invaders .

[Garath]

anything with horns or hooves is more dangerous than you'd expect. I lost many adventurers cruising through mostly deserted mountains and accidentally running into yaks. The few times I had rhinos defending my fort they were effective, as long as they use the horns. They tend to do less damage just stomping