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Carnivorous Deer?
« on: December 16, 2009, 12:04:06 am »
Why is my Animal Trainer feeding my cage-trapped Deer with Turtles in order to tame them? Are my Deer carnivorous?... or maybe my Turtles are actually a type of plant? I'm confused...

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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2009, 12:40:44 am »
Turtles tend to grow a layer of algae all over themselves; a treat for deer. The deer likely mistakes the entire turtle for a large ball of algae and eats it all in a one big nom. This means turtles are both a plant and a meat.
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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2009, 12:58:05 am »
Deers are secretly the ones that run the dwarven world.
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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2009, 01:01:38 am »
Quote from: silhouette on December 16, 2009, 12:58:05 am
Deers are secretly the ones that run the dwarven world.

They don't take any crap from anyone, either.

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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2009, 01:03:11 am »
Animal trainers do that. I've seen them tame elk with pieces of meat.
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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2009, 04:32:10 am »
Quote from: blue emu on December 16, 2009, 12:04:06 am
Why is my Animal Trainer feeding my cage-trapped Deer with Turtles in order to tame them? Are my Deer carnivorous?... or maybe my Turtles are actually a type of plant? I'm confused...
You misunderstood. Everyone misunderstood. Your animal trainer ate the turtle himself, in front of the deer, explaining that if the deer doesn't cooperate, he will suffer the same fate.
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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2009, 09:12:18 am »
Quote from: Lav on December 16, 2009, 04:32:10 am
Quote from: blue emu on December 16, 2009, 12:04:06 am
Why is my Animal Trainer feeding my cage-trapped Deer with Turtles in order to tame them? Are my Deer carnivorous?... or maybe my Turtles are actually a type of plant? I'm confused...
You misunderstood. Everyone misunderstood. Your animal trainer ate the turtle himself, in front of the deer, explaining that if the deer doesn't cooperate, he will suffer the same fate.
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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2009, 09:25:40 am »
Geez man, even deer know meat is better. They just can't normally kill it on their own!

In reality, it's just due to the fact that the current taming system is unrefined, and is just a placeholder until it is fixed. It's better to set everything to be tamed with meat by default than to wait to implement taming until the food preferences and predator/prey relationships are completed, right? Toady just gave us something that works until he can get to the details. You'll also notice dwarves not needing nutritious diet, predator+prey chillin in the fields together, and many other things that Toady has said he will fix at some point.
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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2009, 03:31:50 pm »
Not a fake image...
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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2009, 03:38:13 pm »
Actually, anything can be tamed with any food, it's not meat specifically. I believe that even [BONECARN] predators will accept a plump helmet to tame them.
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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2009, 03:47:49 pm »
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Why is my Animal Trainer feeding my cage-trapped Deer with Turtles in order to tame them? Are my Deer carnivorous?... or maybe my Turtles are actually a type of plant? I'm confused...
You misunderstood. Everyone misunderstood. Your animal trainer ate the turtle himself, in front of the deer, explaining that if the deer doesn't cooperate, he will suffer the same fate./quote]

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Re: Carnivorous Deer?
« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2009, 04:00:56 pm »
That first quote was from me, not Lav.
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