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Sappho

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Where's all the woodland critters?
« on: July 18, 2007, 07:38:00 pm »
I am nearly a year and a half into this game and I have yet to see a single wild creature.  Any ideas what happened?  I was looking forward to hunting and trapping...
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Re: Where's all the woodland critters?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2007, 07:42:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Sappho:
<STRONG>I am nearly a year and a half into this game and I have yet to see a single wild creature.  Any ideas what happened?  I was looking forward to hunting and trapping...</STRONG>

It's a bug. Most swamps and marshes don't have any animals.

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Re: Where's all the woodland critters?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2007, 08:57:00 pm »
I thought I was in a temperate forest...  I just remembered that I tried to add a new critter shortly after starting this fortress, would that mess it up?

Also, how can I check the type of area I'm in after I've already started the forest?

[ July 18, 2007: Message edited by: Sappho ]

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Dreamer

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Re: Where's all the woodland critters?
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2007, 11:39:00 am »
Some areas, particularly evil areas, don't have any animals.  I'm not sure whether it's a bug or not, but I think it adds a bit of "Weird" to the game.  In a good way - If the area is so evil, it makes sense that no animals would congregate there.
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Re: Where's all the woodland critters?
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2007, 04:26:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Sappho:
<STRONG>I thought I was in a temperate forest...  I just remembered that I tried to add a new critter shortly after starting this fortress, would that mess it up?
</STRONG>

I've had several temperate areas without any creatures before.  It's quite frustrating.  Luckily, my current fortress has elephants.

[ July 23, 2007: Message edited by: Neopergoss ]

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Re: Where's all the woodland critters?
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2007, 11:50:00 pm »
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Luckily, my current fortress has elephants.  

Are you MAD, man?

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Re: Where's all the woodland critters?
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2007, 09:23:00 pm »
It's possible to run a fortress successfully with an Elephant economy, you know.
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Re: Where's all the woodland critters?
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2007, 12:19:00 am »
I actually quite like elephants, they make the zoo viable and leave a lot of nice useful stuff when they pass from the mortal coil, if you know what i mean.
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Re: Where's all the woodland critters?
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2007, 02:15:00 am »
Elephants are good to cough train peasents in the art of wrestling.
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Re: Where's all the woodland critters?
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2007, 06:37:00 am »
Hi!

I haven't had that much experience with elephants yet myself, but won't they get in trouble with the caravan guards? I mean, that is the main grievance I have about unicorns, they slaughter half of my dwarven caravan and then ambush any dwarves who want to give the poor victims a burial or retrieve their items.

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