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Kat

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Can you convert prisoners?
« on: June 19, 2010, 08:18:58 am »

Say I have captured many goblins/elves/kobolds. They're all in cages.

Normally I'd have them thrown off the 15-level high Tower Of Throwing Goblins Off The Top that I constructed, but I was wondering if it would be possible to convert them into controllable units, maybe even have them have children, that would be incorporated into the population of the fortress - mostly for use as entirely expendable units, i.e. sieging goblins appear, I would use the converted goblins to use up the enemy goblin archers ammunition, and other such activities. Or maybe an elf-milk farm, since the v0.31 allows that sort of thing.

Is it as simple as adding the [PET] tag to the creatures?
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Sarvesh Mossbeard

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Re: Can you convert prisoners?
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2010, 08:53:31 am »

If they're in a civilization thats hostile to you - no, I don't think so.
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Re: Can you convert prisoners?
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2010, 10:17:01 am »

elf milk farm o.O?
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Re: Can you convert prisoners?
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2010, 10:23:41 am »

If you play with some of the memory hacking utilities floating around you may be able to do this.  In vanilla DF, though, no.
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Kat

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Re: Can you convert prisoners?
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2010, 10:57:37 am »

Hmm, thanks. Oh well, to the throwing tower

elf milk farm o.O?

Yes, why not?

Pretty sure that's what Gimli was thinking when he saw Galadriel.
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Re: Can you convert prisoners?
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2010, 12:13:21 pm »

Use Runesmith! It's easy. Just go into the "Creatures" tab and check the appropriate boxes. Voila, instant rehabilitation!
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