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[Ildac]

I had a minotaur attack my fortress last night.  I caught it in a cage trap and dumped it into my "mob arena" of sorts to feed it invaders.  I dumped a goblin thief in there, but the minotaur won't go after it.  Are goblins and semi-megabeasts not enemies?

The minotaur IS injured, which may have something to do with it.  I think it got shot prior to being caught, or maybe the fall from dumping it into the floor below (one Z-level) hurt it a lot.  Its right eye is gone and its left eye is injured, so could it have been blinded?  The left eye is yellow in the wounds list.

[duckman]

If it's missing an eye and the other is damaged, there's a good chance that your minotaur is now blind.

[Ildac]

Just checked after a while, doing other things.  It's all healed up.  Still ignoring the goblin.

Edit: The wound list could be glitched; I looked at the minotaur's description, and it still says his eye's gone.

Still doesn't explain why the goblin won't attack.

[Langolier]

Hmm that is odd. I'm no expert on the way wounds work, but I wonder if perhaps his injured eye became infected and rotted away?

[Ildac]

If so, then he's pretty much worthless to me. >.< I'll keep him around for a while, see if he improves.  If not, I'll just kill him and his goblin buddy.

[Xantalos]

[badidea]
Why not release him into the fort and see if he attacks your dwarves?
[/badidea]

[wierd]

No silly!

See if you can appropriate a female minotaur, then do a little raw poking!

It may be possible to eventually domesticate minotaurs!

[Xantalos]

No silly!

See if you can appropriate a female minotaur, then do a little raw poking!

It may be possible to eventually domesticate minotaurs!

...
War minotaurs.

[Ildac]

And Ber Melbilsat, countess of Knifemartyred, did lay waste to her enemies, big and small, riding upon an army of minotaur soldiers...

I want this.

[smjjames]

No silly!

See if you can appropriate a female minotaur, then do a little raw poking!

It may be possible to eventually domesticate minotaurs!

...
War minotaurs.

Wouldn't that require a world regen?

[Oaktree]

I've had a number of captured minotaurs, but never tried breeding them.  (And generally found upon killing them and making a memorial slab that they had historically been killing dwarves, and therefore wonder if the taming attempt would take.)

Per dumping goblins in I think something gets set after you cage them that makes them not fight each other.  Only time I got a fighting pit really going is when I managed to catch and dump a crippled forgotten beast into the pit.  It rolled about pushing goblin thieves to death for a while.  Eventually a spear goblin dismembered it.

[Ildac]

I really hope caging them doesn't make them stop fighting... That'd kinda defeat the whole purpose of building this room.

[wierd]

Ssjames:

Adding [child], and [pet] tags does not require worldgen. Altering their composition, or making them have a civilization, or adding/removing [grazer] however does.

Making them be able to poop out adorable little baby abominations shouldn't be a problem, as long as you don't introduce a new caste. (Babies born as adults.)

I've successfully put those tags on giant lions, for instance.

[smjjames]

I really hope caging them doesn't make them stop fighting... That'd kinda defeat the whole purpose of building this room.

Hm, I had an ettin which got captured in a cage trap, but when I let it out for my swordsdwarves to practice on, it didn't even fight back. I don't know if the swordsdwarves were so fast that it didn't have time to fight back, but I really don't think that was the case. It happened both times when I did it first and then savescummed for some reason and did it again.

Ssjames:

Adding [child], and [pet] tags does not require worldgen. Altering their composition, or making them have a civilization, or adding/removing [grazer] however does.

Making them be able to poop out adorable little baby abominations shouldn't be a problem, as long as you don't introduce a new caste. (Babies born as adults.)

I've successfully put those tags on giant lions, for instance.

Oh I see. It's been a long while since I've done modding in DF.

[Ildac]

Just killed the prisoners.  Both goblin and minotaur attacked my dwarves without hesitation.  Maybe goblins and minotaurs really don't fight.