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[Zaibusa]

My fortress is really getting overcrowded with animals. How do you all solve this problem?
Getting tired of ordering kittens and all those little beasts to get slaughtered.
Is there like a Mod to do this? Or to automatically kill all unadopted and tamed animals?

I have a Quad Core CPU and still the performance is pretty bad

[LegoLord]

Tweak can be used to manually kill each individual animal through the use of tile edit or, if you can get it working, the heal/hurt function.  The latter doesn't work unless you fiddle with some inner workings of the program I don't personally understand.  You could also just order every last animal to be butchered from the Animal screen of the stock menu (z).

[Skorpion]

I manage it with selective culling and keeping the baby blighters in a cage.

[Pilsu]

Why do you keep animals if you don't want to eat them?

[Sutremaine]

My fortress is really getting overcrowded with animals. How do you all solve this problem?
Getting tired of ordering kittens and all those little beasts to get slaughtered.

Kill off any female pet cats, and as many male ones as you need to get the corridors clear. Kill off all members of any species you don't need (right now I have one species for meat and bones, another for training, and a third for its modvalue. I'd like alligators too, but the elves have yet to bring me a female one).

Then designate a 1x1 meeting area in a corner near the butcher's shop. All the stray animals will gather there, and your butcher won't have to chase them through the crowded corridors.

[Zaibusa]

You could also just order every last animal to be butchered from the Animal screen of the stock menu (z).

sweet! Didn't know you could butcher from there.
Now i have a huge slaughter qeue

[Skorpion]

Why do you keep animals if you don't want to eat them?

Cats kill vermin, dogs kill animals and humanoids and absorb bolts instead of dwarves.
Otherwise, I keep a breeding colony of livestock for later eatin's.

[Zaibusa]

Why do you keep animals if you don't want to eat them?

Cats kill vermin, dogs kill animals and humanoids and absorb bolts instead of dwarves.
Otherwise, I keep a breeding colony of livestock for later eatin's.

and they make your dwarves happy.
besides, i'm creating a zoo right now. 1 animal of each kind behind a window of glas 

[Majorlag]

I haven't tried this yet because it hasn't become a problem in my current fort, but it might be possible to cage pets (and thus keep them from breeding or pathfinding). Set up something like this:

Code: [Select]

        I
OOOO##########
6  +^^^^^^^^^+
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

6 - Lever
I - support
# - Fortification
O - Wall
^ - cage trap
+ - door

Make the door near the lever not pet-passable
have a dwarf with a pet go pull the lever
the lever collapses the support which causes a cave-in
which knocks the animal unconscious
which triggers the cage trap
the pet is now in the cage where it can do no harm to your framerate and it isn't dead so the dwarf doesn't get unhappy thoughts. Might even be able to sell it off, though I'm not sure what that would do to the owner.

[Reasonableman]

I have a Quad Core CPU and still the performance is pretty bad

Just so's you know, DWAAARF FORTRESS only uses a single core at a time, so the quadiness isn't terrifically helpful, FPS-wise.

[Sinergistic]

I have a Quad Core CPU and still the performance is pretty bad

Just so's you know, DWAAARF FORTRESS only uses a single core at a time, so the quadiness isn't terrifically helpful, FPS-wise.

In fact, having a quad core will HURT DF performance, since quad cores tend to have a slower clock speed individually then a monster single core. 

[Zaibusa]

I have a Quad Core CPU and still the performance is pretty bad

Just so's you know, DWAAARF FORTRESS only uses a single core at a time, so the quadiness isn't terrifically helpful, FPS-wise.

In fact, having a quad core will HURT DF performance, since quad cores tend to have a slower clock speed individually then a monster single core. 

no, that's wrong. Mine is clocked at 3Ghz and i have much more frames than with a single core.
Because there is one CPU wich is ONLY for Dwarf Fortress. Resulting in a way better performance

[Skorpion]

Dwarf fortress runs just fine on my dual-core, to the point of taking up an entire core sometimes. My last fortress pushed me up to 60% CPU usage, on a 64-bit dualcore.

EDIT: Critical typo!

[Plank of Wood]

My computer plays Dwarf Fortress fine, although it does technicly count as a vehicle due to it's size and the fact it needs 40 gallons of un-leaded petrol to function for 20 minutes.

[LegoLord]

My computer plays Dwarf Fortress fine, although it does technicly count as a vehicle due to it's size and the fact it needs 40 gallons of un-leaded petrol to function for 20 minutes.

You're kidding, right?  That sounds like one crazy old computer.