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[m1k3y4e7]

okay, I have a problem. I finally got my cats under control, (and simultaneously got more leather and food than I could ever use, it helps that 90% of them belonged to one unfortunate dwarf) but now I have way too many other animals, and no space or need for more leather and food. I could just slaughter them, but it seems like there should be some use for them. I mostly have mountain goats, but also some rutherers and llamas. any ideas?

[iceball3]

Shove them all into one tiny uncomfortable cage. In all versions with cages so far, all of them included the lack of limits for caging animals.

[m1k3y4e7]

will that make them stop breeding? will baby animals in a cage age?

[Gnauga]

Yes. Any pregnant ones will give birth in the cage, and these will be promptly freed by the next available dwarf, unless these are manually assigned to the cage. No further fertilization will occur, however.

[Internet Kraken]

will that make them stop breeding? will baby animals in a cage age?

Animals can't breed inside a cage. Though if your current problem is that you have to many of them, I don't know why you would want them to breed anyways.

[m1k3y4e7]

so once I have all of the animals assigned, and the babies of any pregnant ones, they are basically in stasis until I release them?

[Gnauga]

so once I have all of the animals assigned, and the babies of any pregnant ones, they are basically in stasis until I release them?

They won't age, it seems.

[Skelodwarf]

Nope, they'll still age.

They just don't breed in captivity.

Editing, since there seems to be some disturbance.

It all of my "Testing" (Playing), animals will age in cages.

PROOF! I had all calfs assigned to a cage on birth to cut down on lag, and only released them when they grew up, so they could breed me some more hamburgers. It worked.

[m1k3y4e7]

oh my, I realize that this is off-topic but I literally have 342 cat meat roasts.

Ontopic: if I have my elephant calves in the cage, and they grow up, do I have to remove them from the cage before I train them, or will the trainer do it themselves?

[m1k3y4e7]

also, will kittens in cages be adopted?

[Gnauga]

No. This is one of the major reasons why kittens are mass-caged. In addition to cutting FPS, it prevents adoption.

[Zaik]

Yeah, they age, i had a raccoon the elves brought die in a cage.

Then i butchered 30 of the oldest ones, and dumped about 140 of them into magma.

Then i realized my temperature was off and they were just sitting down there, not even drowning, just sitting in a pool of magma.

So i saved, exited, turned it back on, loaded the game, and omg the spam. Wish i'd taken a screenshot :/ Smoke all over my forges and smelters.

[immibis]

cutting FPS

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[Gnauga]

cutting FPS

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Silence.

I kill you.

[Hyndis]

Animals can and do die of old age within cages.

I recommend just butchering them all. Build a whole lot of butchery and tanning workshops next to a huge food stockpile, get some extra barrels, and then slaughter all of the animals.

You will have food for decades too, or you can just export the roasts to caravans.