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[dsi1]

I thought butchering was an instant action

For smaller creatures it is, the more experienced the faster he is. I suspect the Whale is one of the few creatures that actually need time to butcher.

[Bouchart]

I thought butchering was an instant action

Slaughtering a tame animal is.  Not butchering.

[Urist McDepravity]

I thought butchering was an instant action

Big corpses make workshop *CLT*, which slows it down to crawl.

[smigenboger]

I always laughed at having a talented butcher. Makes me think of Benihana's

[forsaken1111]

I thought butchering was an instant action

If the dwarves bring a tame live animal to the butcher shop, it is instantly butchered. Some quirk of the game I believe. If they bring a corpse to the butcher shop, it will take time to butcher. The time it takes depends on the corpse's size and the number of items still in the butcher shop (shells, bones, etc) making it cluttered.

[Beanchubbs]

How do you catch whales? Did it just die on the beach or something?

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

How do you catch whales? Did it just die on the beach or something?

I have no idea. I first became aware of the whale while my butcher had it on his shoulders walking through the dining hall, prompting the question titular of this thread.

[Paul]

Wow, thats some serious meat from the whales

Meat isn't that hard to come by anymore though, especially if you can get big animals. Elephants are roughly 1/4 the size of the whales and you can actually ranch them, since they're tameable.

I have a bit of an elephant ranch started on one fort which has wild elephants. I just butchered two newborn calves to see how much meat I would get and I got 126 for one and 106 for the other. Thats brand new baby calves, just born - and both from the same mother. It takes a bit over half a year for them to give birth, but its often to twins. Even if it only gave birth once a year to twins that would be over 200 meat a year per female elephant - not to mention all the other stuff. Heh, I could probably feed my fort with a single elephant pair. These ARE really big elephants, though - I caught several and picked the really muscular and big ones for my breeders.

[Max White]

Thats...a lot of meat.

From a slightly newer player, how are you catching the whales?

[forsaken1111]

Thats...a lot of meat.

From a slightly newer player, how are you catching the whales?

re-read the thread. He has answered this twice.

[Max White]

Fine, I shall do something FOR MYSELF for once! But don't expect me to do my own laundry too, for god sake.

[Aspgren]

Fine, I shall do something FOR MYSELF for once! But don't expect me to do my own laundry too, for god sake.

... I would never in my life touch the laundry of someone who is learning to butcher whales.

I mean. It'd be more like washing your clothes away from the blubber pile!

[forsaken1111]

Somewhat related: I can't wait until we can extract whale oil from a whale corpse and dump it on goblins to subsequently set them on fire.

[Max White]

Somewhat related: I can't wait until we can extract whale oil from a whale corpse and dump it on goblins to subsequently set them on fire.

You just passed the Japanese citizen test! For bonus points, can you draw crazy cartoons?

[Lytha]

A whale... that is impressive, but at one point, I had a quantum cage and decided to place it somewhere else, so I had it deconstructed. A dwarf then carried it to the new animal stockpile, which was several z-levels down and further to the left.

The dwarf clearly suffered, as she needed about 10 seconds per tile.

I'm talking about a quantum cage with about 80 orcs. The weight of the quantum cage was over 50k weight units.

But it was so worth it. The archery range was there, and live target practice is so much more fun.