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[AceSV]

Alright, so I have a frog-people civ for Furry Fortress.  Omnivore or Carnivore frogs just doesn't feel right.  They should be eating flies or catching birds out of the air with their tongues!  Is that a thing I could do? 

So I know that there's the tag that cats and falcons have.  I don't know if that would work on a civ, or if that's the best solution.  I'd also like for them to include vermin in their normal DF diet, making an acorn fly roast or bringing barrels of bats to the trade depot.  Maybe making some kind of vermin booze too (which is oddly enough a real thing). 

I might also do a anteater-people or something that eats ants or termites.  I'd be interested to know if I could mod the game to farm ants and termites in a useful way, as you can with honeybees. 

[pisskop]

I dont see why not, if youre willing to work out a few things.  the tongue attack is likely the biggest challenge, but dfhack might be able to do ranged grapples.

[IndigoFenix]

You can add VERMIN_HUNTER to sapients, but this will cause problems with fort-playable races, since hunting vermin overrides other tasks; your frogs will interrupt work to chase prey every time they see one appear.

A less troublesome option would be to give them GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS:GENERAL_POISION.  They won't chase vermin, but they should eat any creature they happen to walk over, which I believe will sate their hunger.  Not sure if it will trigger the bad thought "was forced to eat vermin".

You can probably make vermin normally edible with a reaction that takes a captured vermin creature in an animal trap and converts it into a meat item.

You can make any vermin creature hiveable by modifying their raws, and make them produce any kind of item you want, the same way bees produce honey, wax, and jelly.  It's pretty flexible, I've even seen a mod that made tiny slave labor camps that produced clothes and tools.

[AceSV]

I'll give GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON a shot.  The first version of Furry Fortress had a duck civ with [GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS:EDIBLE_GROUND_BUG], and they gobbled a lot of vermin in adventure mode, but I didn't notice anything special happening in fortress mode. 

Do you remember which mod had the slave hives?  I'd be interested to give that a look.