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blue emu

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Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« on: April 29, 2009, 08:48:34 pm »

Just wondering...

I've started a fortress at the intersection of five different Biomes. Would it be possible to make a living just by trapping creatures (in cage traps) and selling them?

I'm sure it won't be as profitable as the specialty food industry, stonecrafting or making socks... but it might be a bit different from the usual.

Another question: is it... Dwarfy? I suppose capturing and selling Elves or Knobgobblers is Dwarfy enough, but what about animals?

... one more: how dangerous are Snailmen to novice Dwarves? There seem to be quite a few of them slithering around...
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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2009, 08:55:54 pm »

Snailmen won't generally bug you. They're peaceful creatures, and can be wrestled fairly easily.

As for trapping creatures into cages and selling them, I think you'll have to tame them. I know from experience that dwarves will move the cage to the depot but not the wild animal inside. This leads to hilarious Benny Hill style hijinks, but is ultimately a nuisance. I don't know whether tame animals in cages can be successfully moved to the depot.

But if you're going to tame them, you might as well start up a breeding program. And then you can sell them like that.
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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2009, 10:59:28 pm »

Dude, trap, breed, sell.

And that'd make life happier.
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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2009, 11:27:00 pm »

So... trap => tame => release => breed => re-cage => sell

Yes?

By the way, my local wildlife includes Giant Eagles. I haven't even got my wagon unloaded yet, and I've already spotted one overhead. They should be worth a few Dwarf-bucks.

... hopefully it doesn't eat Dwarf.
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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2009, 12:01:31 am »

Giant eagles are insatiable monsters who live only to instill fear in the Dwarf peons. The legendary bloodlust of Elephants is as nothing next to the unholy glee with which the eagle will re-enact Greek myth by tearing out the livers of every dwarf in your fort.

Giant eagles are mean.
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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2009, 12:51:08 am »

Giant eagles are insatiable monsters who live only to instill fear in the Dwarf peons. The legendary bloodlust of Elephants is as nothing next to the unholy glee with which the eagle will re-enact Greek myth by tearing out the livers of every dwarf in your fort.

Giant eagles are mean.
They also likes to tell jokes that are offensive to dwarfs.
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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2009, 01:18:18 am »

This conversation feels very familiar to me.
Oh also, giant eagles have never posed a threat to my dwarves.

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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2009, 01:33:50 am »

This conversation feels very familiar to me.
Oh also, giant eagles have never posed a threat to my dwarves.

nor mine, but that may have to do with the fact that the eagle in my map in locked away under several Z-levels of magma and steel consecutively
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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2009, 06:33:09 am »

You're a bit late to selling giant eagles.

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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2009, 07:11:24 am »

I wonder why they let employees park out front?
Can't be customers as you wouldn't fit a giant easly into any of those cars... :)
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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2009, 11:16:19 am »

Giant eagles are insatiable monsters who live only to instill fear in the Dwarf peons. The legendary bloodlust of Elephants is as nothing next to the unholy glee with which the eagle will re-enact Greek myth by tearing out the livers of every dwarf in your fort.

Giant eagles are mean.

Everything you need to know about eagles is said in "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett.
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Re: Trapping and selling for fun and profit
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2009, 03:02:11 pm »

I wonder why they let employees park out front?

To avoid mall adaptation.
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