Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: Adopting Vermin  (Read 842 times)

Dragonchampion

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Adopting Vermin
« on: January 12, 2011, 12:24:39 am »
I cannot find captured vermin in the Animals menu. Is there any way to put them up for pet adoption without that menu?

Vermin pets, I think, would be pretty good as they would be ignored by most enemies. Been having trouble with my cats killed by Ice Wolves.
Logged

noob

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Adopting Vermin
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2011, 02:07:58 am »
tame them
Logged
LOSING IS FUN!

Dragonchampion

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Adopting Vermin
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2011, 02:22:42 am »
Tried that, didn't work. The kennels say that I need tameable small creature.

The creatures are bought from a caravan. Does that mean anything?
Logged

AngleWyrm

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Adopting Vermin
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2011, 02:23:42 am »
I have some freshly tamed vermin I'de be willing to donate to a good home.

PS: Vermin are even smaller than a small creature, and therefore don't count for training at the kennel. But they make fine caged house pets. Especially if someone has a vermin fettish. But I haven't seen anyone with that, so mostly I just assign them all to one single cage at my zoo.
« Last Edit: January 12, 2011, 02:26:07 am by AngleWyrm »
Logged

Ves

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Adopting Vermin
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2011, 03:11:06 am »
Sounds like the Vermin you're trying to tame is Exotic.
Logged

AngleWyrm

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Adopting Vermin
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2011, 03:22:55 am »
And what creatures are both vermin and exotic in this game?
Logged

Ves

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Adopting Vermin
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2011, 03:27:01 am »
All of the vermin apart from Bluejays, Cardinals, Grackles, Orioles, Red Winged Blackbirds, Hedgehogs, Rats, Roaches and Worms are exotic.
Logged

cog disso

  • Bay Watcher
  • Current Fortress: Hatchetminds
    • View Profile
Re: Adopting Vermin
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2011, 04:12:55 am »
When a dwarf "adopts" a vermin, he puts it in his cabinet/coffer/bag/whatever in his bedroom. If nobody has any cabinet/recepticles, vermin won't be adopted.
Logged
Urist McShrodinger likes unobservable properties for their haunting implications.

assimilateur

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Adopting Vermin
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2011, 04:34:35 am »
Quote from: Dragonchampion on January 12, 2011, 02:22:42 am
The creatures are bought from a caravan. Does that mean anything?

I think animals bought from a caravan already arrive tame.

Quote from: cog disso on January 12, 2011, 04:12:55 am
When a dwarf "adopts" a vermin, he puts it in his cabinet/coffer/bag/whatever in his bedroom. If nobody has any cabinet/recepticles, vermin won't be adopted.

Is that a new feature? Because it used to be that tame vermin would be carried around.

It is my understanding that any tame animal assigned for adoption will eventually be selected by a dwarf, as long as they have a preference for said animal.
Logged

Sphalerite

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
    • Drew's Robots and stuff
Re: Adopting Vermin
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2011, 09:08:36 am »
Animals bought from a caravan are already tame, but exotic pet animals don't show up on your animal list unless you have a Dungeon Master.

Animals which are adopted are carried around by their owner.  Dwarves will not put their tame animals in cabinets or chests.
Logged
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.