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[itg]

I'm breeding rocs in my current fort, and I'd like to put most of the males into a cage to reduce clutter and maximize fps. Unfortunately, I can't see any way to tell the sex of a roc from the cage assignment menu. Does any one know a convenient way to get just the males into a cage?

[Obsidian Soul]

You can use DFHack autobutcher plugin by robertheinrich and falconne. It's included by default in DFHack r3, which in turn is included by default for PeridexisErrant's Expanded LNP.

While it's primarily an automated means of butchering animals once they reach a certain number, I use it solely for its awesome filtering feature. It has the ability to exclude non-grazing creatures (easier to figure out which animals still need pasturing), uncaged creatures, creatures already pastured, and yes, the option to exclude either male or female from the list. All of these are incorporated into the ingame UI and has helped me immensely in managing my fortress animals.

Here's a pic of it ingame:

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[itg]

That's exactly what I'm looking for! Unfortunately, I'm running Linux, and the stuff I need appears to exist for Windows only.

[Button]

Rocs usually have names; for those that don't, you can give them nicknames.

Alternately, butcher your male rocs. Their bones make some amazing crossbows.

[itg]

Most of these rocs don't have names, and I don't see an obvious way to give them names. Maybe if I war train them? I've been meaning to do that, anyway.

I would prefer not to butcher the males. I have...plans for them.

[jcochran]

1. Make a pasture.
2. Put all your rocs in the pasture.
3. Cage a pastured roc into a staging cage.
4. Examine caged roc. If female, release it. If male, move it to the destination cage.
5. Repeat 3 & 4 until you have no more pastured rocs.

It will take a while, but it is doable. I'm certain there are other methods of achieving the separation you're looking for, but the above method does work.

[itg]

That's not a bad idea, but I came up with an easier solution. I'm going to war-train only the male rocs. It may take a while, but the dorfs will handle it without my constant supervision.

[Sutremaine]

Go into the raws and edit the caste names to be different.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

Go into the raws and edit the caste names to be different.

can the characters: ♀ and ♂ put in the cast names?

[Sutremaine]

Short answer: no.

Long answer: you could maybe get close. I took the character table here and pasted the whole thing into the jabberer raws before saving, closing, and reopening the file. Many of the non-letter characters were now rendered as ?, so I took a couple that were still displaying (ƒ and µ) and used those as gender symbols. Those displayed in the pasture menu as Ä and ╡, at which point I gave up on the pasted symbols and typed in ^ and ' instead.

[MrWillsauce]

Cage all of the rocs, then release the females.