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[ILikePie]

Can dwarfs mount certain creatures? If they can, how do you get them to do so? And if they can't, what do I need to change for them to be able to mount?

[jockmo42]

I'm pretty sure it's impossible in the current version, mods or not. A form of transportation is planned for future releases, though.

[Smew]

From what I understand mountable creatures have not been added for dwarves yet, and by that I mean, we ourselves can't make them ride stuff. ;/

[Jim Groovester]

Sadly, your dwarves won't be able to ride ponies into battle. Or unicorns. Or whatever you had in mind. Giant Bats, maybe. Sorry, no can do.

[Tormy]

From what I understand mountable creatures have not been added for dwarves yet, and by that I mean, we ourselves can't make them ride stuff. ;/

Correct, and maybe this won't be changed at all, since Toady finds this "dwarves can use mounts" idea weird. I don't know...from a fantasy perspective, I see nothing wrong with dwarven boar riders for example, or something like that, but again, it's up to Toady that what's gonna in regard to dwarves&mounts. 

[Org]

I asked him about it and I think he said eventually...

[Soadreqm]

Well, adventurers should probably be able to ride things, and playing as something other than dwarves (and the gameplay actually being different) is planned for the far future. So I guess mounts will be added as a possibility, whether or not dwarves will be able to use them in the vanilla game.

Right after alien invasions and water molecules.

[Evildude]

Dwarves should be able to ride mountain goats or rams. I know, kinda WoWy, but it does make sense. War elephants would be nice, too, but they should need 2 or 3 dwarves on them to use properly.

Maybe have the ability to put them on a wagon to link two distant stockpiles. Kinda like Transport tycoon.

[RAM]

Aaaaaargh! HELP! HELP! I am being chased by dwarves!!!

The game has mounts at the moment, right? So in theory it probably wouldn't be that difficult for Toady to put in the ability to replace a mount and a rider with a mounted rider. I can't see it being worth implementing properly at this point, but giving people the ability to mod it in might be nice...

[Duke 2.0]

 Currently mounts are buggy. If you have a military dwarf attack mounted foes, you will notice those foes run away, because while the foes riding the animals are hostile the animals are scared of your military dwarf.

 I believe Toady will overhaul the thing later in the Army Arc, possibly. It might fit into a different arc.