Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Haedrian]

Grissly Bear Cage, Giant Leopard Cage, Giant Cheetah Cage.

I usually wait until I have 2 of each () then start breeding them. Then I mod them to be trainable, and before you know it you have goblins getting their head ripped off by war giant cheetahs.

I love this game

[Pilsu]

My elves just taunt me with dead animals and jewel encrusted wooden cages


Query, what happens when the elven merchants go melancholic? The berserk ones died but the whiners probably don't need to eat or drink. Do I need to use a ballista? One of the oxen refuses to go crazy for some reason too

[StrayCat]

Should've made the entire floor of the tunnel leading to your trade depot a pit trap mate. Retractable bridge, BOOM, Elves scream seven Z-levels down, broken legs all around, and theeen you open the flood gates, and a few hundred tons of water that don't have no affinity for elves aside from getting inside their lungs rushes on in.

Urist McPhilosopher Say: Elf with broken legs swim briefly.

[LegoLord]

Grrrr. . . Elves . . .

Those guys are total jerks.  Always complaining about the bloodstains on our +narrow iron masks+.  So?  It's not our fault some guy cut his finger while carrying away an -iron scimitar-!

And what do they bring me?  Nothing.  a few useless trinkets, maybe, and a caged roach, but what good that do!?

What?  Elves?  Oh yes, a fine bunch of fellows.  Bring us lots of rope reed goods and clothing.  We dwarves just love baggy clothing!

[JoRo]

They finally got the message that I don't want to buy their cloth, but now they only bring me wood and berries.  I want some cool animals.

[Efun]

i love elves....they dont fight back.....at first then it gets more fun making them fight goblins in your arena

[LegoLord]

iit gets more fun making them fight goblins in your arena

You, sir, are a genious.

[Haedrian]

Interesting, now they've just brought me a barrel of 'sunshine'.

That sounds so... cool.

[LegoLord]

Interesting, now they've just brought me a barrel of 'sunshine'.

That sounds so... cool.

That's the most valuable wine in the game.  It's made from sun berries, which are only found in good areas, so if you're not in a good area you have to get them from the freakin' idiots Elves.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

how about you train the giant monster animals, and instead of feeding them goblins, feed them the very elves that brought them to you.
A stroke of evil genius, I think.

[Axe27]

Let them all starve and donate their bodies to the 'Bones for Bolts' program.

[Tayrin]

Mainly with thanks to elves, my fortress now has 2035 tame animals. This consists of the following:

Black bears, bonobos, bulls, cats, cheetahs, chimpanzees, cougars, cows, deer, dogs, donkeys, dragons, elephants, foxes, gazelles, grizzly bears, groundhogs, hippos, hoary marmots, horses, hydras, jaguars, leopards, lions, mountain goats, mules, one-humped camels, raccoons, rhesus macaques, tigers, two-humped camels, warthogs and wolves.

[Untelligent]

Tip on getting them to bring lots of exotic beasts:

Elves bring you whatever you buy the most of. So, on their first visit, if you buy a single Giant Eagle cage, and a bin containing 20 wads of cloth, they'll think, "Hey, they bought all that cloth, but only one pigeon. They must like cloth a lot more than pigeon." Next time the traders come, they'll have a lot more cloth, but fewer or no animals.

Best way to maximize your animal imports is to never buy anything in bulk, and buy very little of any other inanimate objects.

[Efun]

Tip on getting them to bring lots of exotic beasts:

Elves bring you whatever you buy the most of. So, on their first visit, if you buy a single Giant Eagle cage, and a bin containing 20 wads of cloth, they'll think, "Hey, they bought all that cloth, but only one pigeon. They must like cloth a lot more than pigeon." Next time the traders come, they'll have a lot more cloth, but fewer or no animals.

Best way to maximize your animal imports is to never buy anything in bulk, and buy very little of any other inanimate objects.

Does that work for seizing the goods too , they just wont go to war damnit!!! ive taken everything they had 3 times..... they like brining me cloth and food from the world of light

[Pilsu]

Buying cages with vermin makes them think you like cages. Be warned