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[TofteTiger]

Hi I'm kind of new to DF but I've read all the wiki pages I could find but still the giant chameleon arn't breeding in my setting.

I've got 4 trained giant chameleons, 2 males and 2 females in an enclosed (walls, doors) pasture (zone),
I've got 4 Nest boxes for the eggs (I have no experience with non birds and Nest boxes so maybe the mistake is here?),
I waited a lot (2 years at least) but nothing.
Is there a minimum space they need to breed? they have 5X6 and the Nest boxes are all in the pasture (on grass of course)

It might be that 2 of the males or females are gay but how likely is that?
Is there something I forgot?

Thank you all in advance,
my dorfs are waiting to ride chameleons to battle

[A_Curious_Cat]

Have you checked the output of the DFHack “gaydar” command?

Also, from what I understand, fortress mode dwarves aren’t able to ride mounts in the current release.

[Starver]

Maybe they can't even spot each other, blending into the background as they do?

I can just (not) see them riding into battle, though...

[TofteTiger]

gaydar doesnt work.. it gives an error:

[DFHack]# gaydar
...47.05-r01\Dwarf Fortress 0.47.05/hack/scripts/gaydar.lua:101: attempt to index a nil value (local 'unit')
stack traceback:
        ...47.05-r01\Dwarf Fortress 0.47.05/hack/scripts/gaydar.lua:101: in local 'nameOrSpeciesAndNumber'
        ...47.05-r01\Dwarf Fortress 0.47.05/hack/scripts/gaydar.lua:129: in local 'script_code'
        ...k 0.47.05-r01\Dwarf Fortress 0.47.05\hack\lua\dfhack.lua:680: in function 'dfhack.run_script_with_env'
        (...tail calls...)
E: NoMethodError: undefined method `onstatechange' for DFHack:Module
 eval:1:in `<main>'
E: NoMethodError: undefined method `onstatechange' for DFHack:Module
 eval:1:in `<main>'
E: NoMethodError: undefined method `onstatechange' for DFHack:Module
 eval:1:in `<main>'
E: NoMethodError: undefined method `onstatechange' for DFHack:Module
 eval:1:in `<main>'
E: NoMethodError: undefined method `onstatechange' for DFHack:Module
 eval:1:in `<main>'
E: NoMethodError: undefined method `onstatechange' for DFHack:Module
 eval:1:in `<main>'
E: NoMethodError: undefined method `onstatechange' for DFHack:Module
 eval:1:in `<main>'
E: NoMethodError: undefined method `onstatechange' for DFHack:Module
 eval:1:in `<main>'
E: NoMethodError: undefined method `onstatechange' for DFHack:Module
 eval:1:in `<main>'

edit:
I managed to make it somewhat work: gaydar -all works and there it says that at least 2 are not gay so it's not it.
I tried using fix-ster fert all and I hope now they get it on... we'll see

Thanks for the help! 

[PatrikLundell]

And you have verified that they haven't laid eggs and those have been collected? This also leads to the next question: Have they laid any eggs at all (all egg layers act as domesticated chicken, i.e. lay eggs regardless of fertilization or not, so there should be a steady stream of eggs).

I haven't had chameleons, but I have had snakes and crocodiles.

[TofteTiger]

I checked again and I do have giant chameleon eggs at the stocks, it can be it, Ill try to block entrance.

Thanks again

[TofteTiger]

Not sure how interesting it is to you guys but I now have a (trained +) army of some 90 giant chameleons.. they aren't born children so Ill have to domesticate them the longer way and I went into a butchery frenzy to off all fat, weak and not war worthy color-shifters.
I'll leave a male and 2 females incredibly muscular specimen. It wont be long until I have an army!
I think to try train them to war before they are domesticated but I'm not sure how much fun I want to have....

To summarize:  I think it was the fix ster fert command that helped.