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[Darkond2100]

Could someone help me destroy all vermin? I want them modded out of my game. They're such troublemakers. Miasma is enough for me to handle without them. Also, I have no need of cats without vermin, so I can throw them all in a river of magma (my trademark). No vermin, no cats, NO CATSPLOSION!

[Earthquake Damage]

If you simply want to avoid the catsplosion, my suggestion is to remove cats (erasing the [COMMON_DOMESTIC] line should suffice) and add [VERMINHUNTER] to dwarves.  Do the latter only after the initial caravan has left the map intact, as IIRC vermin-hunting dwarves causes the caravan to lose its brains after it reaches the depot.  They never leave.  Your dwarves, however, will intermittently catch those pesky vermin on their own.  I think they only do so when idle, too, so it doesn't prevent them from working.

It's been a long time since I tried that.  That's how it worked once upon a time, and to the best of my memory.  Your mileage may vary.

Oh, and I only warn about the first caravan because AFAIK immigrants will only ever arrive if at least one caravan returns to the mountainhome.

[Darkond2100]

I did it. I also removed [VERMIN_HATEABLE] and added [NO_WINTER][NO_SPRING][NO_AUTUMN] 'cus I didn't want to see their ugly faces every again.

[Nobody1225]

Possible alternative to turning your dwarves into lobotomized anthropomorphic cats:

Find/replace in all creature files:

[VERMIN_HATEABLE]

with

[VERMIN_HATEABLE][IGNITE_POINT:10000]

Hypothesis: teleporting fireballs, except outdoors in winter in cold biomes.  Must test.

[Earthquake Damage]

That's a shame, really.  Now your dwarves have fewer reasons to tantrum.

By the way, since IIRC cats lack [LARGE_ROAMING], all you'd have to do is remove [COMMON_DOMESTIC] to fix the problem.  Note that this is only true prior to world generation.

If you've already generated a world, the only way to remove cats entirely is to tweak their temperature settings.  There are several effective ways of killing them, too.  You can use [HEATDAM_POINT:1], [COLDDAM_POINT:65534], [MELTING_POINT:1], [BOILING_POINT:1], [IGNITE_POINT:1] (this is dangerous, of course), [FIXED_TEMP:<insert something fatal but not too extreme -- it can be bad for your dwarves if it's too nasty>], or maybe [HOMEOTHERM:<as with FIXED_TEMP>].  I recommend the HEATDAM or COLDDAM options, personally.  The others carry some risk.  Boiling at a low temperature may create clouds of icy death that can annihilate dwarves instantly.  If you add [SEVERONBREAKS] (or whatever it's called -- check the Bronze Colossus in creature_default.txt), the HEATDAM and COLDDAMN methods should lead to exploding cats.  If you use IGNITE and SEVER, you get the infamous nuclear catsplosion.

Hypothesis: teleporting fireballs, except outdoors in winter in cold biomes.  Must test.

Vermin ignore temperature, so this won't work.  Their temp settings can affect other creatures (e.g. fire snakes can burn things), but they remain unaffected.

Also, only traders are lobotomized due to vermin hunting.  At least that's how I remember it working.  Everything worked perfectly except the dwarven caravan refused to leave.  Well, I guess I never paid attention to some of the less common job types (e.g. liaison meetings, the leader/mayor consoling upset dwarves, &c).

[Doomshifter]

I thought the vermin hunter tag made them only eat vermin?

[Deon]

No, it makes them to be CATS.

[darkflagrance]

If you hate vermin but also hate cats, you could also consider just setting two dwarves to trapper duty and setting a "Capture Live Animal" job to repeat at the kennel. This will cause the trappers to basically become cats, except that vermin will be placed in wooden traps, and left at your animal stockpile.

Where passing dwarves will casually snack on them at their leisure.

[Darkond2100]

Can I just delete the cats and vermin completely?