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[arlan]

I've been playing around with the idea for a race of intelligent giants or some such, however, since work is beneath them (and an endless horde of giants would be rather too easy), what I was hoping to do was stick with only the original seven migrants, and give them gremlin pets, making the gremlin pets do all the labour and construct seven glorious towers for their giant overlords. I figured this would work, since gremlins are intelligent, and even have labour options if you have them as pets.

Problem is, they won't act on their labour options even though I can select them. Damned things stand around as gormless as any other pet, so the question is, is it possible to make gremlins (or any other intelligent pet) actually do work?

[Apegrape]

I think that the intelligent tag+pet=Doesn't work.  I think that it wants them to be pets only, and if they're going to work they have to be citizens. I dunno.

[Jay]

I think, using Companion, you can set their civilization number to the same as your dwarves, and remove the pet flag.
Could work.
Could also crash DF.
Save first.

[StrayCat]

I think, using Companion, you can set their civilization number to the same as your dwarves, and remove the pet flag.
Could work.
Could also crash DF.
Save first.

Do it. FOR GREAT DWARVEN JUSTICE.

[Skid]

I think they need an entity file with all the jobs you want them to do enabled before it will work.  I might be wrong though, haven't messed around with it much.

[Jackrabbit]

I think, using Companion, you can set their civilization number to the same as your dwarves, and remove the pet flag.
Could work.
Could also crash DF.
Save first.

Do it. FOR GREAT DWARVEN JUSTICE.

NO! There setting you up the bomb!

[StrayCat]

I think, using Companion, you can set their civilization number to the same as your dwarves, and remove the pet flag.
Could work.
Could also crash DF.
Save first.

Do it. FOR GREAT DWARVEN JUSTICE.

NO! There setting you up the bomb!

Dorfs: MAIN SCREEN TURN ALL.
Dorfs: IT'S YOU!
Straycats: How are you gentlemen!!
Straycats: All your base are belong to us.
Straycats: You are on the way to destruction.

[beorn080]

There was some experimenting done a while back on the subject. Heres what was discovered.

The labors fishing and hunting are not issued through a building.
Every other labor is issued through a building in one way or another.
When the game goes through the creatures it assigns jobs only to the initial founder civilization.
However hunting and fishing are generated when the creature idles.
Therefore you can set any creature to hunt or fish if they are tame and they will.

What you can do is start as a gremlin civ with 7 dwarf pets. Build each of them a tower and release them in their towers.

[arlan]

I think, using Companion, you can set their civilization number to the same as your dwarves, and remove the pet flag.
Could work.
Could also crash DF.
Save first.

Do it. FOR GREAT DWARVEN JUSTICE.

I'd love to, but companion generally buries me under a large pile of error messages every time I try to install it, so that ain't happening...