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[Greiger]

Bit of an update.  The mother of 'the first ever hatched fortress resident' laid another egg shortly after collecting the hatching.  This one however doesn't seem to be hatching.  So there may be something I'm missing.

[Fortis]

That way when the giant Rocs and Cave Crocodiles turn up you'll know where they're going!

Yeah, through the corridors with cave traps and such. Two birds, one stone.

[Greiger]

One bird, one lizard one stone cage trap?

Sounds like a squick video....

*rimshot*

...I think I may need psychiatric help if that's the first thing that came to mind from that statement...

[Dora Feddy]

I was wondering if it would be possible to mod a plant to act the same way as a nesting box does. Though having alligators invade my fort for the nest boxes sounds Fun, I would rather collect the eggs from out in the wild.

[D_E]

No.  Nesting boxes are buildings.  The wild animals using your nestboxes thing has been reported as a bug, so Toady may do something about it in the next release.

[NW_Kohaku]

Greiger, you are a dwarven hero of !!SCIENCE!!

[Protomith]

I modded dwarves to lay eggs (Lol) so now the outpost liaison is on a nest box.

[darkflagrance]

Bit of an update.  The mother of 'the first ever hatched fortress resident' laid another egg shortly after collecting the hatching.  This one however doesn't seem to be hatching.  So there may be something I'm missing.

Hmmm. The mother dwarf whose eggs hatched into decaplets laid another 12 eggs, which have also hatched; the woman is carrying around 24 bouncing baby shields now, and sitting on more eggs.

Maybe you need to wait a bit longer?

[Greiger]

Yea I haven't given up on her yet.  And I actually managed to get lucky and get a good supply of adamantine so my military is decked out, despite the utter lack of any of the metals the embark said was here, so I'm in no real danger of losing the fortress to a siege anymore.

So far she's still the only mother to have successfully hatched a child.  I had 2 other attempts, but I lost both of the other eggs to a combination of 'dwarven stupidity' and overseer oversight (needed a new food stockpile, forgot to forbid eggs...).

[Rumrusher]

No.  Nesting boxes are buildings.  The wild animals using your nestboxes thing has been reported as a bug, so Toady may do something about it in the next release.

what a bug? If I didn't want animals to go plop eggs I could just built it inside or made a hen house. poop I'm so close to figuring out how to breed adventures with out hacking with that feature.

[Girlinhat]

The problem is that if you build a nest box inside, a crundle will path its way all the way through your base, slaughter your chickens, and claim a nest box.  This is troublesome.

Also, if you're worried about sieges, why not turn invasion off while performing egg tests?

[darkflagrance]

Yea I haven't given up on her yet.  And I actually managed to get lucky and get a good supply of adamantine so my military is decked out, despite the utter lack of any of the metals the embark said was here, so I'm in no real danger of losing the fortress to a siege anymore.

So far she's still the only mother to have successfully hatched a child.  I had 2 other attempts, but I lost both of the other eggs to a combination of 'dwarven stupidity' and overseer oversight (needed a new food stockpile, forgot to forbid eggs...).

Yeah, I've also lost a few other potential mothers to similar things. I've also had a few dwarves lay eggs in boxes without being married, and since the eggs would not hatch, I deconstructed their boxes. However, they have since gotten married and claimed nest boxes, but have yet to lay eggs.

[Max White]

Always remember folks; If knowledge is power, then it is nice to have a battery. Store your power today!

[rarborman]

I moded gobbos to lay eggs...fun ensued and I caught several and gained some goblin eggs...since gobbos dont marry they cant quite spawn in your slave pits now unless you change them a tad.

[Rumrusher]

I moded gobbos to lay eggs...fun ensued and I caught several and gained some goblin eggs...since gobbos dont marry they cant quite spawn in your slave pits now unless you change them a tad.

so any one seen a wild animal egg hatch in their nest yet? If so then removing the smart tags on your creatures might be the solution to get them breeding.