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[assimilateur]

I think I've seen first births in late summer of my first year, so that would make pregnancies last around 8 months. Note that this can vary from species to species, and I'm talking about things like cows here.

One thing I do know, however, is that pregnancies aren't very realistic in this game, and I'm not just talking about conception via spores. For example, I've had elephant cows give birth once per year, while their pregnancies last almost 2 years in real life.

[rufio]

Not to mention dorfs giving birth in the middle of battle and using their babies as shields.

[Skorpion]

Are cave-ins obliterating glowing pits normal?

[XmasApe]

I'm wondering, is it possible to mod animals so that they can still be purchased on the embark screen and possibly on caravans, but so that immigrants won't arrive with them as pets?

I can't answer the first part of your question, and I'm greatly interested as well, but pets should really not be much of a problem if you're willing to be brutal. You ever heard of a pet killing device? Build a narrow corridor with a lever, spike trap and two doors, more or less like this: 1___DSD, where 1 stands for the lever, _ for floors, D are doors and S is the spike trap, obviously. You draft your pet owner, station him near the lever, make the left door pet-impassable (but not forbidden, that would keep animals from trying to go through it) and wait for the pet to follow its owner. The rest is pretty much self-explanatory. The loss of a pet might make your guy unhappy, but that's nothing a good drink or fantastic, not to mention legendary, dining room won't cure.

The deathtrap sounds like a good idea, thanks! I'll use that to tithe me over on my current fort.

After a little looking, the wiki lists next to the PETVALUE token that the only creatures available on embark are those with the COMMON_DOMESTIC tag, although there may possibly be some other stipulations to this. Then under the CD tag description it lists that immigrants will bring animals with the CD tag as long as they also have one of the following: PET, PACK_ANIMAL, WAGON_PULLER, MOUNT.

This means that by removing all of the tags from that list from animals who have CD tags would *in theory* make them available on the embark screen, but not available as immigrant pets. It would also make them untameable wild animals which would raise more questions as to how the game would handle them and then how a player should handle them.

I'm definitely going to test this out today.

When I took all COMMON_DOMESTIC tags out of my raws (to cut down on asinine things like cave-dwelling dwarves having pet cows follow them around everywhere), I could still embark with any WAGON_PULLER or MOUNT animals, but nobody brought any pets. This -will- deprive you of dogs, and let me say from experience: Do NOT have only one animal with the COMMON_DOMESTIC tag unless you'd like the Mountainhomes to send you about 500 of them in the autumn.

[Heliman]

Question:Can a dragon's breath hurt another dragon?

(P.S, I love this thread, it's completley invaluable and is good for the little things that can ruin your garden fort)

[Cheddarius]

Is there some way I can revive my liasons who got massacred by goblins so I can ask for stuff I need? That is, cheat? Dwarf Companion doesn't seem to work on my computer, unfortunately...

[NecroRebel]

Is there some way I can revive my liasons who got massacred by goblins so I can ask for stuff I need? That is, cheat? Dwarf Companion doesn't seem to work on my computer, unfortunately...

You could try Spellcraft, especially if you still have the liaison's corpse sitting around someplace. It doesn't actually require a regen, though using it is somewhat complicated as it isn't intended for resurrecting a specific person like that.

Also, you may simply be misusing Companion. The most recent one works only with 40d16 AFAIK, so you may need to dig up a different version. Though if you've already tried that I certainly can't help you 

[Cheddarius]

I don't mean that I can't use DC - it doesn't run at all on my computer. But I'll see what Spellcraft can do - thanks!

[Heliman]

Question:Can a dragon's breath hurt another dragon?

Nvm, just found out they can't.

[gopher dude]

Alright so I recently found an underground river (see more underground river questions for details).

And I need to know somthing about vermin.

I need some cave spiders, no cave spiders have been seen yet, and I really need some underground silk.
Will cave spiders eventually spawn near the river?
Olms are near the river, but I don't know if they've spawned or they were just there to be begine with.

[sproingie]

GCS's don't spawn.  If they weren't in the creature list on embark, they never will be.

[gopher dude]

GCS's don't spawn.  If they weren't in the creature list on embark, they never will be.

I'm talking about the cave spiders, not giant cave spiders.

The vermin, not the horrible monster.

[Sphalerite]

Cave spiders do spawn randomly, but only if the biome has them.  Not all cave rivers do.  If you haven't seen any webs or spiders yet, you may simply not have them on your map ever.

GCS's don't spawn.  If they weren't in the creature list on embark, they never will be.

No, but they do start stealthed, so not having any on your creature list is no guarantee one isn't on the map hiding somewhere.

[JaaSwb]

Just started my first fortress with an underground river.

Is there any way to prevent muddy subterranean tiles from growing tower caps and shrubs? I'd hate to see the elaborate plumbing I have planned for this fortress get clogged, but I do need to tap the river if I'm ever going to do any farming at this site.

[Sphalerite]

Is there any way to prevent muddy subterranean tiles from growing tower caps and shrubs?

It has been my experience that constructing floors on those tiles will stop tower-cap growth.  I have heard other say they've seen tower-caps grown on constructed floors, but never seen it myself, so YMMV.  Constructing paved roads also seems to stop tower-caps from growing.