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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #30 on: February 17, 2011, 08:38:28 pm »
I don't know about hens, but I put some nest boxes right outside my fort and a bun of ducks ran up and immediately claimed them.

Then I started seeing these messages like "Urist McHauler cancels store item in stockpile: interrupted by duck"

What are these? The evil ducks of death? To stop them from disrupting my dwarfly activities I had to put them all in joint locks and kill them with a few punches to the head. These are the most annoying ducks I've ever seen.
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #31 on: February 17, 2011, 08:41:55 pm »
I had turkeys rush in and kill my peacocks who were using their nests.  Wild animals claiming nests is turning into a large headache...
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #32 on: February 17, 2011, 08:45:42 pm »
You can use the nexting by having some nests near an entrance to your fort and surrounding them with cage traps.

On weaponizing chickens: They attack but don't do much damage, you say? I propose: CHICKEN DANGER ROOM!
Why go through the effort of making lots of spears when instead you can train your soldiers in surviving the wrath of the chicken horde.
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #33 on: February 17, 2011, 08:47:54 pm »
Confirming wild animals stealing nest boxes. Build decoy nests away from your livestock pasture(s) and do what you want with them as the wildlife will orbit around the nests indefinitely. I prefer to let them take the decoy nests as I get eggs that way - probably won't hatch though.
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #34 on: February 17, 2011, 09:09:50 pm »
Quote from: EveryZig on February 17, 2011, 08:45:42 pm
You can use the nexting by having some nests near an entrance to your fort and surrounding them with cage traps.

On weaponizing chickens: They attack but don't do much damage, you say? I propose: CHICKEN DANGER ROOM!
Why go through the effort of making lots of spears when instead you can train your soldiers in surviving the wrath of the chicken horde.

I embarked with about a hundred bunnies and a few chooks then basically ignored them while trying to breach an aquifer, untill i got a message about my expedition leader fighting something.
Suffice to say the bunnies did not fare well :(
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Quote from: NonconsensualSurgery on March 26, 2012, 09:11:55 pm
They're nearly as bad as badgers. Build a couple of anti-buzzard SAM sites marksdwarf towers and your fortress will look like Baghdad in 2003 from all the aerial bolt spam. You waste a lot of ammo and everything is covered in unslightly exploded buzzard bits and broken bolts.

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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #35 on: February 17, 2011, 09:18:26 pm »
On the chicken danger room, wouldn't the soldiers just murder all of your hens?


Much better to have your cockfighting arena. Or just add chickens to the line up of your normal arena, or "feed" your hydra/megabeast/GCS live chickens to keep it healthy
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #36 on: February 17, 2011, 09:20:07 pm »
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Won't that work?
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #37 on: February 17, 2011, 09:20:27 pm »
Strip your dorfs and train them in wrestling, .... lock them in a small room with Buffalo..
Fun shall ensue
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Quote from: NonconsensualSurgery on March 26, 2012, 09:11:55 pm
They're nearly as bad as badgers. Build a couple of anti-buzzard SAM sites marksdwarf towers and your fortress will look like Baghdad in 2003 from all the aerial bolt spam. You waste a lot of ammo and everything is covered in unslightly exploded buzzard bits and broken bolts.

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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #38 on: February 17, 2011, 09:25:18 pm »
Have your nest in a tunnel, so you can place the traps more efficiently and catch flying things.

About animal injuries, apart from the occasional counterattack, your dwarfs do not actually attack the animals.
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #39 on: February 17, 2011, 09:26:53 pm »
My expedition leader had a few hen and rabbit kills to his name
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Quote from: NonconsensualSurgery on March 26, 2012, 09:11:55 pm
They're nearly as bad as badgers. Build a couple of anti-buzzard SAM sites marksdwarf towers and your fortress will look like Baghdad in 2003 from all the aerial bolt spam. You waste a lot of ammo and everything is covered in unslightly exploded buzzard bits and broken bolts.

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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #40 on: February 17, 2011, 10:58:39 pm »
Quote from: MarcAFK on February 17, 2011, 09:20:27 pm
Strip your dorfs and train them in wrestling, .... lock them in a small room with Buffalo..
Fun shall ensue

Hmm, bullfighting and el toro events maybe...
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #41 on: February 17, 2011, 11:17:00 pm »
OOOH, I got it. Have your fortress as one long super-corridor.
Put a stack of Bufflo in a cage at one end.
At the other end, put a set of nest boxxes.
Mod Bufflo to lay eggs.
Restrict all dorfs to a burrow that encompasses that corridor and nothing more.
Release ufflo.

You there have the Running of the Bulls.
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Quote from: FreakyCheeseMan on April 29, 2010, 12:00:26 pm
Christ, are you dwarves or are you elves? If you think Hell has too many demons, then youkill them till the population reaches an acceptable number.
Quote from: The Doctor on December 18, 2010, 02:01:15 am
Dwarf Fortress: So horrifying the players would rather talk about nice things, like Warhammer 40k.

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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #42 on: February 17, 2011, 11:21:19 pm »
Can you get a named weapon if a dwarf kills 100 bunnies?
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #43 on: February 17, 2011, 11:44:40 pm »
You can get a named weapon without kills.  It seems to depend on the user's skill level.
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Re: Hen attack
« Reply #44 on: February 18, 2011, 01:33:01 am »
Attention duelists: My hair sats that they attack the other chickens too. It is moreloike chicken battle royale, so, if you enclose them for a weapon, only one will survive.
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