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Anticipation

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Animal shortage?
« on: July 13, 2009, 05:03:05 am »
Do animals stop coming into the area in certain seasons? I noticed new hairy marmots stopped dropping by after I killed the old ones in winter. But then in spring they started up again.
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HammerHand

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Re: Animal shortage?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2009, 09:06:54 am »
I can't be exactly sure about this, but I'm pretty sure that in most climates, winter populations are smaller (or nonexistent).  Beyond that, there's also the bit about over-hunting your area, which happens far too quickly in the current version(s).  Animals re-pop a little each season, but killing them all is killing them all for a while.

This is much more noticeable in fishing - once you have a legendary Fisherdwarf, you run out of fish in the rivers pretty quickly.  Provided they're bereft of carp, that is.
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Re: Animal shortage?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2009, 01:04:35 pm »
The animal population is actually a complex model - it's not like some games where every day there is a % chance for random critters to show just so you can kill or be killed.

There is a starting population in your area (off map), and once that's gone, it's gone.  Seasons effect this on the short term, and animals can be killed "offscreen" or during world gen.
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Grendus

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Re: Animal shortage?
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2009, 01:36:09 pm »
Animals also breed in the wild, though I think it's slower than in captivity. So long as you leave a few breeding pairs in the wild, you won't ever run out of wild game though, so just limit your hunting.
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Psychoceramics

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Re: Animal shortage?
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2009, 04:56:58 pm »
limit your hunters to 1 or they'll hunt everything to extinction in very short order
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Stargrasper

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Re: Animal shortage?
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2009, 05:02:09 pm »
Quote from: Psychoceramics on July 13, 2009, 04:56:58 pm
limit your hunters to 1 or they'll hunt everything to extinction in very short order

Or, better yet, eliminate all of your hunters and catch everything in cage traps/animal traps.  Tame everything you can and butcher at your leisure.  Generally a good way of controlling/maintaining populations.  A couple might need the dungeon master, though.
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Hyndis

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Re: Animal shortage?
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2009, 06:15:25 pm »
Currently there is only a finite amount of wildlife.

Once you kill them all, you will have no more wildlife wander into your fortress.


This is a known issue, and I think one that will be fixed either next release, or the release after.
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