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[Sasquatch]

Two games in a row, both of my boars have liked boars. Also in both games 2/3 sows have liked sows. I know I could start with more animals, or buy from traders, but this seems a bit much. The wiki says there is a 1.2% chance of homosexuality. I'm experiencing over 50% here. Out of 5 pigs, only 1 is interested in breeding.

[utunnels]

Bad luck?
Well, you know I embarked with 6 animals, all of them are female!

But after I bought some males from the merchants, soon I found I had to geld most of the males or my fort be drowned by kittens/puppies.

[lethosor]

How exactly are you determining your animals' sexuality? It could be that they're simply "uninterested" or "unwilling to marry", which has been brought up a number of times as a problem.

[utunnels]

You can't without using Therapist, unfortunately.

I just geld all adults and slaughter the extra. When the puppies grow up, I wait for new born puppies then geld and kill the older ones.

[Sasquatch]

How exactly are you determining your animals' sexuality? It could be that they're simply "uninterested" or "unwilling to marry", which has been brought up a number of times as a problem.

Dwarf Therapist

[Bumber]

Bad luck?
Well, you know I embarked with 6 animals, all of them are female!

Wasn't that a deliberate choice? They're sold by gender.

[utunnels]

Bad luck?
Well, you know I embarked with 6 animals, all of them are female!

Wasn't that a deliberate choice? They're sold by gender.

No I always use "Play Now!". It's random.

[vjmdhzgr]

It's true there's only a 1.5% chance for homosexuality, but there's a far higher chance for asexuality or bisexuality. There's a roll for attraction to each gender with the default chances being 75% for not homosexual 20% for being willing to enter lover but not marrying and 5% for marrying with the reverse for heterosexual. For animals this ends up meaning a 25% of not having children because animals need to be willing to marry to have children. I think there's a simple fix in just allowing non-civilized creatures to breed at lover status leaving a 5% chance of not being able to have children which I think is good considering that it is something that can happen in real life.

[Orange Wizard]

If you add [ORIENTATION:MALE:0:0:100][ORIENTATION:FEMALE:100:0:0] to the female caste and [ORIENTATION:FEMALE:0:0:100][ORIENTATION:MALE:100:0:0] to the male caste, the given creature will be effectively heterosexual.

[Putnam]

You can use gui/gm-editor with DFHack to make critters straight.

I'm not making a script for that because it makes me feel icky.

[Orange Wizard]

I'm not making a script for that because it makes me feel icky.

I'm just thinking about your male pregnancy thing and wondering how this is any worse.

[Putnam]

Mostly possible sadism.

[Sasquatch]

That's the odd part though. I have 0 bisexual animals currently in this game. RNG hates me and doesn't want me to have food.

I will look into the DFHack thing to fix one of the boars. Hopefully I won't feel "icky" lol.