Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: breeding  (Read 370 times)

BaronBalloon

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
breeding
« on: August 15, 2010, 03:28:33 pm »

how can i determine the gender of an animal? if i bring 2 of an animal from embark, will they automatically be a breeding pair?
Logged
Are the fortresses there for psychological reasons?  Are they trying to hold back entropy itself, rather than the goblin hordes?

Smew

  • Bay Watcher
  • I'll kill you with my bear face.
    • View Profile
    • Deep Games for Deep Gamers
Re: breeding
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2010, 03:32:18 pm »

in 31.xx every animal that has a gender has the male and female of the species listed in the animal list on embark.
In 40d, genders would alternate, with male being 1, female being 2, male being 3, etc.

FleshForge

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: breeding
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2010, 03:43:34 pm »

You're shown this in the Z (status) -> Animals screen, there is a little character next to the name of the animal that indicates the gender.  In plaintext this is pretty easy to see (♀ or ♂) but in a graphics tileset it may be harder to figure out.
Logged

Cotes

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: breeding
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2010, 04:42:46 pm »

You're shown this in the Z (status) -> Animals screen, there is a little character next to the name of the animal that indicates the gender.  In plaintext this is pretty easy to see (♀ or ♂) but in a graphics tileset it may be harder to figure out.
Not really, since cows and such, and the fact the description screen always has a few "his" or "her" in there.
Logged
Well if you remove the [MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE] tag from dwarves I think they have like 2-4 children each time they give birth. And if you get enough mothers up on the pillars you can probably get a good waterfall going.
Ashes are technically fire-safe.

Khift

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: breeding
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2010, 04:47:45 pm »

If you're using the Mayday graphics set the female symbol is a typical ankh but the male symbol is a bag. I lol'd when I realized that the first time.
Logged