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[Garath]

Pets just make dwarfs happier, right? Is the "pet value" thing in the wiki how much happier that pet makes them?

If I got a dragon for a pet for all my dwarves, they would be over the moon?

they would mostly end up quite dead after a while. The dragon follows his owner. dragon spots goblins. dragon starts to build up fire breath. dwarf spots goblins, turns around to run and is greeted by dragon fire racing his way. Crispy dwarf

[Yaotzin]

That sounds seriously fun actually

What would the most dangerous pet be that is more...discriminate, and how do I get it?

[Tiruin]

Typically, the more dangerous the animal, the harder it is to capture. Meaning, the more it is valued if tamed. These are almost always exotic pets. Exotic pets are sometimes brought by the Elven Caravan every spring.

In the current vanilla DF, without modding, you will not be able to tame any caught exotics in cage traps.

[Yaotzin]

Already edited all my raws in preparation

Do dragons and rocs and such things just randomly appear when you have tons of wealth/pop? I don't want to create a world that can't have them or something.

[Tiruin]

Check the Legends of said world, all titans/forgotten beasts/megabeasts will appear there.

[Yaotzin]

So am I looking for any dragons etc that haven't been killed? Can any of them visit me or does it depend where I embark?

I love how it lists every single little duck each dragon killed. Talk about detail!

[Telgin]

I'm pretty sure forgotten beasts can show up anywhere (I've read that anyway), but by my understanding above ground megabeasts only attack things that are relatively close by and / or at least connected by land somehow.  So if a dragon is on another continent, you'll never see it.

I'm not sure how far they'll migrate on land to wreak havoc on your fort though.

[Yaotzin]

Is there a way to find all the cage traps you made? I made some randomly in the wilderness now I can't find them

[FuzzyZergling]

Is there a way to find all the cage traps you made? I made some randomly in the wilderness now I can't find them

If you have a bookkeeper whose done enough bookkeeping, you should be able to press [TAB] on the z-stocks screen to see every individual atem in a category, then [z]oom to it.

[Yaotzin]

I have so many empty cages hanging about though This will take forever.

[i2amroy]

On the levels other then your fortress you could hit "q" and if it says cage trap then you know that there is at least 1 cage trap on that level. Then you just have to look around for the flashing tile to indicate where it is.

[Garath]

hit 'R' to go to rooms. traps are somewhere at the bottom. Also, cages used in traps show up as blue in the expanded stocks menu

[Yaotzin]

Cool that helped.

Is there a safe way to breach a river or whatever? I know how to block it with levers/floodgates and whatnot, but not how to begin it. At the moment I'm just digging right into the river then running like hell.

[i2amroy]

Cool that helped.

Is there a safe way to breach a river or whatever? I know how to block it with levers/floodgates and whatnot, but not how to begin it. At the moment I'm just digging right into the river then running like hell.

Usually this way works fine. I personally have never had any problems with it as long as I make sure that the stairs are accessible to get out of the new channel.

[Yaotzin]

Is there any use at all for artifact crafts? Other than making me scared that goblins are going to kill me, that is.