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[cochramd]

Like clockwork, the goblins again came on the second day of fall. They started fairly close to the trapline, so hopefully this will all be over quickly.

[martinuzz]

I just finished butchering 90 cave crocodile hatchlings, restoring 10 points of FPS. It had dropped from 60 (my capped max) to 48 when two litters totalling 96 cave crocs hatched.

I just gifted 164k dwarfbucks worth of cave croc totems, cave croc various intestines (all except the meat, I keep that for cooking), and cave croc roasts to the dwarven caravan, lol. I suspect to regain my remaining 2 FPS once they leave the map with all those intestines (over 40 barrels full of them)

cave croc breeding OP

Sadly, no leather. So I can't outfit my dwarves like proper crocodile dundees.

Also: Whee! I now have a full citizenship human slave. (the one I mentioned earlier with the naughty goblin name)

[cochramd]

You mean you didn't train them all and wait until adulthood to slaughter them? I guess we're just two very different people...

[martinuzz]

nah.. I trained the enormous, muscular and fat ones to (tame). Will let those breed again.

[etgfrog]

A legendary human visits and joins in a dance, then this happens.

[cochramd]

nah.. I trained the enormous, muscular and fat ones to (tame). Will let those breed again.

I do that too (though genetics don't seem to work for livestock yet), but I wait until my fortress has achieved "expert" training knowledge with the species. I breed the wild adults, kill the tamed babies and repeat until I achieve expert, at which point I let the wild adults breed one last time before killing them. Then the tamed babies become my mainstay population which I perform eugenics on.

The siege was only about 50 goblins and beak dogs, so it was broken quickly (and just in time for a mason's strange mood!) The post-siege cleanup will slow pumping efforts, but this time for sure I'm going to finish casting that obsidian.

EDIT: It's a miracle! I broke the siege so fast that the caravan still came!

[martinuzz]

I do that too (though genetics don't seem to work for livestock yet), but I wait until my fortress has achieved "expert" training knowledge with the species. I breed the wild adults, kill the tamed babies and repeat until I achieve expert, at which point I let the wild adults breed one last time before killing them. Then the tamed babies become my mainstay population which I perform eugenics on.

I'm slightly sad that my giant cave toads and voracious cave crawlers give birth to adult offspring, so I will never be able to fully tame those. The upside would be that my animal trainer is getting close to legendary.

[cochramd]

Do the VCCs have tons of twins and triplets too?

[martinuzz]

Yes, they spam them twins and triplets. The VCC are awesome, for their crafting usable teeth.


OOOOOOOOH!!!!!!! I captured a male GCS. I already have a female!!!

If I tame the female, and leave the male wild (for my silk farm), will they still be able to reproduce, if they're straight?

[cochramd]

I don't think so. But now I have a theory that Toady made cavern creatures hyper-fertile for reasons known only to him.

Sadly, my civilization has not churned out any new books; no matter, when I finally build that library I'm going to churning out high-quality engineering papers like they're going out of style.

[martinuzz]

I don't think so. But now I have a theory that Toady made cavern creatures hyper-fertile for reasons known only to him.

Sadly, my civilization has not churned out any new books; no matter, when I finally build that library I'm going to churning out high-quality engineering papers like they're going out of style.

I guess I need to let them breed wild then and cage trap the young for taming. Or try my luck making a tame GCS silk farm.

EDIT: also. HAHAHAHA

[cochramd]

Wait....is that an artifact book? Like, not just a book bound with artifact skill, but was it written as part of the strange mood too?

[Chevaleresse]

Embarking at the base of a Terrifying mountain. The Rocks of Stabbing are founding Shattervault to revive their dead civilization. I figure they're only here because they probably won't get invaded.

[martinuzz]

Wait....is that an artifact book? Like, not just a book bound with artifact skill, but was it written as part of the strange mood too?

Nope, it is a granite earring. I just copy pasted part of the description, which is a picture commemorating the reproduction of the book called True Reproduction by a scribe.
Also, my female GCS is now chilling on a tile next to a caged male GCS. The waiting has begun.

[Skribbblie]

Drat. Despite being diagnosed over a 1000 times during a dwarfyear, and being washed every month, my last crundle victim, although he's out of hospital and working happily, is showing an infection in his finger. I fear the worst, since he's very slow to heal.
He's my legendary armorsmith. Good thing I have a spare one of those (2 platinum breastplates if you remember).

That's what you get with a novice medical team (points at the link in my sig)

EDIT: drat again, the other finger victims have an infection too.

Perhaps I should arrange for a nonlethal but slightly injuring accident for them, so they're forced back into hospital. I need another finger biting crundle

Find the victims in adventurer mode. Perform amputations. Run away.