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[Leohoh]

What i can do with the wild creatures caged by my traps? I can slaught them? Tame? What do for example, with a goblin?

[Spaghetti]

soooo whats the deal with how powerful weapons are now???

[Double A]

Thanks, but I've hit a bit of a snag.

It lists my training options as "War Dog" and "Hunting Dog".  Generic "Animal" tasks stretch only to include capturing and taming.

The menu says "dog" but when you queue them up it says "animal."

Do war animals breed? I bought a pair of mandrills, one of each gender, and trained them to be war mandrills. However, there haven't been any babies after years. Should I have left them as normal tame animals?

Trained Animals do breed. Only case animals do not breed is when caged.

I think maybe there's a problem. I also trained a pair of war elephants that I bought but they won't breed either. Maybe traded animals are sterile 

Or maybe they're the same gender.

[Brewster]

I built stairs up about 11-z levels and 3 floor tiles going straight out from them. I built a cage with a fox in it, and placed a PIT zone next to it, and tried to pit, but when the dwarf pulled him out of cage, they got interrupted, and fox ran away... what am I doing wrong?

[Double A]

Are Mac saves compatible with the PC version of the game?

I have a succession game going, and I use DF on a Mac, but probably everyone else uses a PC.

[Brewster]

@Aklyon - you can not train cats. Here is list of animals that are...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Trainable Animals

The following creatures can be trained into war animals or hunting animals:

    * Cheetah
    * Dog
    * Dragon
    * Elephant *
    * Giant bat (hunting only)
    * Giant cave swallow (hunting only)
    * Giant cheetah
    * Giant eagle *
    * Giant jaguar
    * Giant leopard
    * Giant lion
    * Giant tiger
    * Gorilla
    * Grizzly bear *
    * Jaguar
    * Leopard
    * Lion
    * Mandrill
    * Polar bear
    * Tiger


* these animals are a good choice for your army

Source: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Tame#ixzz0w2yejb6H

[Drawde]

I built stairs up about 11-z levels and 3 floor tiles going straight out from them. I built a cage with a fox in it, and placed a PIT zone next to it, and tried to pit, but when the dwarf pulled him out of cage, they got interrupted, and fox ran away... what am I doing wrong?

The fox escaped is all.  Every time you move a caged creature out of a cage it can escape.  I believe you need a strong dwarf to do the moving to minimize the escape chance.

Try surrounding the area with cage traps to at least recapture them easier.

[StrawberryBunny]

soooo whats the deal with how powerful weapons are now???

A material is stronger or weaker than others based on its various properties in the raws. For weapons and armour, essentially, adamantine is better than steel is better than bronze is better than copper. Adamantine is the lightest material, and thus makes terrible terrible blunt weapons, but holds the best edge possible in the game, making it the best for swords and axes. Steel is excellent all around and should be your primary armament material. Although it would be pretty awesome to have an honour guard of dwarves dressed in gold or rose gold armour.

[timtek]

I asked this a few days ago but didn't get a response, i think it got lost between hospitals and farms. Do civs die with fortress's? Can I use the same civ twice and still get caravans nobles etc?

[Double A]

They survive even if you don't.

[timtek]

Thanks double A. =D

[Spaghetti]

soooo whats the deal with how powerful weapons are now???

A material is stronger or weaker than others based on its various properties in the raws. For weapons and armour, essentially, adamantine is better than steel is better than bronze is better than copper. Adamantine is the lightest material, and thus makes terrible terrible blunt weapons, but holds the best edge possible in the game, making it the best for swords and axes. Steel is excellent all around and should be your primary armament material. Although it would be pretty awesome to have an honour guard of dwarves dressed in gold or rose gold armour.

lol i meant Axe better than sword Warhammers terrible? It changed alot since last version and i cant figure it out

From what ive seen in the game mining picks are the best weapons... :/

[OddProphet]

Mining picks are the most powerful weapon in the game...

This is more of a matter of the average pick user's skill than any raw statistic.  If someone with a pick is going into combat, he has probably been mining with it for some time.  You see, when a miner engages in "Wrestling" or any hand-to-hand, said miner defaults to the pick in hand.  Skill is calculated by Mining Skill.  For example:

Urist McImmigrant and Urist McMayor are working on an exploratory mining shaft.  Breaking into a cavern, they are set upon by a pair of olm people.  Urist McImmigrant's pick is slow and unwieldy, but Urist McMayor can slay both monsters and cook a souffle before his companion bleeds out.


Hope that helps.

[Double A]

Mining picks are the most powerful weapon in the game...

This is more of a matter of the average pick user's skill than any raw statistic.  If someone with a pick is going into combat, he has probably been mining with it for some time.  You see, when a miner engages in "Wrestling" or any hand-to-hand, said miner defaults to the pick in hand.  Skill is calculated by Mining Skill.  For example:

Urist McImmigrant and Urist McMayor are working on an exploratory mining shaft.  Breaking into a cavern, they are set upon by a pair of olm people.  Urist McImmigrant's pick is slow and unwieldy, but Urist McMayor can slay both monsters and cook a souffle before his companion bleeds out.


Hope that helps.

This is why you use legendary miners for exploratory mining.

[Spaghetti]

thank you and lol he was a legendary miner heads literally flew everywhere

but my question is still here...

what is the order of weapon superirority?