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[§k]

a) Elephants are born with tusk!
b) Kea is not only living in moutain or desert, but on shrubland as well! And I'm building an aboveground fort on savage shrubland!

[Tacomagic]

a) Elephants are born with tusk!
b) Kea is not only living in moutain or desert, but on shrubland as well! And I'm building an aboveground fort on savage shrubland!

Yeah, I think the biome tags aren't entirely working.  I had Keas show up on a tundra.  They stole a masterwork butcket.

[§k]

A keaman stole a minecart on route and crashed the game!

And there's no way that one should be defeated by keamen. I just embark on another temperature shrubland, with crossbows!

[smjjames]

A keaman stole a minecart on route and crashed the game!

And there's no way that one should be defeated by keamen. I just embark on another temperature shrubland, with crossbows!

Wasn't that crash fixed by 40.13?

[Pyrefly]

My fort was complaining because despite the fact there were plump helmets EVERYWHERE and all of them could brew, they ended up drinking swamp water because they were too lazy. Then when I traded for wine, they left it outside until it all was stolen by kea men.

[The Bard]

Captured an entire herd of Elk birds. Forgot they were grazers. Left them in cages.

[PillarsOfSalt]

Captured an entire herd of Elk birds. Forgot they were grazers. Left them in cages.

Oh crap! I've got a pile of elk birds in cages right now, I guess I should let them out.
P.S. Do they lay eggs? Are they worth farming?

[Tacomagic]

Captured an entire herd of Elk birds. Forgot they were grazers. Left them in cages.

Oh crap! I've got a pile of elk birds in cages right now, I guess I should let them out.
P.S. Do they lay eggs? Are they worth farming?

Yes on both counts.   And, now that grazing has been changed, they actually stand a chance of surviving on the nest long enough to hatch eggs!

Probably.  Worth a try, anyway.

[§k]

Does wild elk bird claim nest box?

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reply to smjjames:

Wasn't that crash fixed by 40.13?

That's great! The game it crashed is a .34 one...

[Larix]

"Troglodyte has given birth to a [baby]."

And the next thing that shows up is a combat report where the loose baby throws itself off a towercap and is promptly torn asunder by the amphibian-people lurking in the water harassing the troglodytes. This happened twice in short succession.

Because
1 - non-fort mothers don't bother to pick up their children.
2 - the various species of cavern life seem to be hostile to each other now.

And then all nearby cavern-dwellers panic and get afraid of the death all around them (caused by their unconditional "no quarter" stance towards each other).

[Bralbaard]

May have some spoilers.

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Wardslings, year two. I'm on an embark with no metal ore that I know of.
The first caravan never made it and is on the bottom of the moat due to some horrible tragedy (earlier facepalm) The trade goods are out of reach for now. I don't know if any other caravans will make it, I just found out that the southern part of the embark has foul mist clouds that turn anything that passes through them in husks. We got lucky with the fist wave of husks but it is doubtful we can stay on the surface when a second wave hits.

My exploratory tunnels have however found one of the caverns (no ore) and the magma sea deep below, and with it, an adamantine spire. With no other ore the importance of this discovery can not be overstated.
The two miners are instructed to quickly dig a tunnel towards it, to see how far it rises above the magma sea, and to carefully start the extraction process. All goes well until.....they accidently dig into pressurized water and drown in seconds, taking my only two picks with them.

I did not get a damp wall warning because I was right over the magma sea, and the walls were hot (but safe from the known magma below), not wet. -facepalm- To add insult to injury, the spire does not rise above the magma sea. If I obsidianize it all (If I ever get another pick), there's only four levels of spire to mine, likely with a rotten core all the way through.

[Tacomagic]

Does wild elk bird claim nest box?

I don't think they do, no.

[puke]

Does wild elk bird claim nest box?

I don't think they do, no.

Ah, the good old days of Roc farming.  These followed very closely on the heels of the good old days of OH MY GOD WHY IS A FLOCK OF ROCS PATHING THROUGH MY FORTRESS?!?

All in all, I'm glad wild creatures don't claim nest boxes any longer.  It started out as Fun, but was too easy to exploit once you knew what to expect.

Though I do sort of wish there was a way to 'bait' creatures for large scale trapping purposes.  Short of exploiting pathing.

[StagnantSoul]

Baiting would make sense. Say, dragons were attracted to sheep. It wont pursue your dwarves, or path to your fortress, so long as a sheep is in p, say, a 30 square radius.

[StagnantSoul]

*Banging head off table* I had a huge trap set up for the clowns, to cave-in them... Forgot I turned cave-ins off. So I turn it on. EVERY. SINGLE. LEVEL. OF. MY. FORTRESS. JUST. COLLAPSED. AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!