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[deepdowner]

I always prefer ducks or geese or something flying for spotting duty. Aside from running away, they'll also go up, giving them much more use as a distraction because they usually survive longer. Similarly, a war or hunting animal on that particular spot will die fast, unless it is an elephant or cave dragon or something, and will not buy you much time

Will they settle in their pastures again after that?

[AutomataKittay]

I always prefer ducks or geese or something flying for spotting duty. Aside from running away, they'll also go up, giving them much more use as a distraction because they usually survive longer. Similarly, a war or hunting animal on that particular spot will die fast, unless it is an elephant or cave dragon or something, and will not buy you much time

Will they settle in their pastures again after that?

Nope, someone'll come to put them back into pasture, which mean a dwarf have to come up, unless it's inaccessible.

[Cozmopolit]

I only wish there was a better interface for animal assigning, a la therapist.

Splinterz Therapist branch has a tab for animals. Incredibly helpful. (Visual animal traits \o/  ... incredible helpful for Eugenics to only keep the strongest male in the pack and get - on average - stronger pups next generation)

https://code.google.com/r/splintermind-attributes/


Also, dfhack's autobutcher function ("Keep 2 boars and 10 female pigs + unlimited piglets, whenever we have more, automatically assign the oldest animals for slaughter")

[Aquathug]

I always prefer ducks or geese or something flying for spotting duty. Aside from running away, they'll also go up, giving them much more use as a distraction because they usually survive longer. Similarly, a war or hunting animal on that particular spot will die fast, unless it is an elephant or cave dragon or something, and will not buy you much time

Ohohoho man, war geese. This needs to happen.

[Garath]

em, no, that would defeat the whole idea behind them flying away and being even harder to hit than something that runs away... But hey, whatever makes you happy, it is very easy to edit in

[Prester]

i heared something about making them swim all the time to grow attributes

[Garath]

I think I read it too, and the suggestion was quickly shot down. For dwarfs it works, but animals don't gain stats. You need CAN_LEARN for that I think. I might be wrong though

[smjjames]

I think I read it too, and the suggestion was quickly shot down. For dwarfs it works, but animals don't gain stats. You need CAN_LEARN for that I think. I might be wrong though

That's just skills, not stats I think.