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[Tsarwash]

I've never really done much of this beyond making some war dogs.. I have around 40 dogs and one elephant. How do I get the trainer to train up the elephant to be a war animal not the dogs ?? The wiki info is not straightforward, imo.

What other options are there without a beast master ?

[Kweri]

Animal trainers won't train animals in cages or on restraints, so you can temporarily cage all your dogs (build a cage, q - a over it and assign all dogs to it) and have the elephant the only animal available to train.

[SpawnoChaos]

Here's a problem that I'm having. My animal trainers won't train any animals... despite there being around 200 stray dogs that say "waiting to be trained".


I have a kennel constructed and the necessary skills assigned to train animals. What am I missing?

I go to the kennel and select "train war dog". The trainer gets there and gives the message "no appropriate animal to be trained' or something like that.

[bremarv]

You have most likely cages all the appropriate animals. They wont train anything thats in cages

[Tsarwash]

Thanks for the tips. What a pain in the ass animal training is currently.

[Sowelu]

How do I get the trainer to train up the elephant to be a war animal not the dogs ??

Unless something changed recently, you need some tag like CAN_TRAIN for a critter to be trainable, and only dogs have that tag.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

How do I get the trainer to train up the elephant to be a war animal not the dogs ??

Unless something changed recently, you need some tag like [TRAINABLE] for a critter to be trainable, and only dogs have that tag.

Fixed.

[Laurin]

There are obviously more animals with said tag. I had for example a polar bear trained.

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Lots of them: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Kennel#Trainable_animals , even elephants.
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