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[kzwix]

Hi,

I had read about someone butchering cavies (in a signature, I guess), because "not everybody sees them as pets". So I bought quite a lot at embark (10 females, 4 males), plus rabbits too, to setup a breeding emporium.

Well, I was kinda disappointed when I saw the only butchering return was a skull (on adults or pups alike), no meat, no fat (even when they are described as "enormous and muscular" or "enormous and very fat"), no skin, nothing.

I then thought to myself "well, I guess I can sell them to those damn tree-huggers", but when the Elven caravan came, I couldn't transfer those pets to be traded. I had cages, but I'm not sure it would make a difference...


So, my question is : Is there a way to sell animals to caravans ?  Are those animals a waste of oxygen, like they seem to be, or do they have any kind of use ?  Practice targets, maybe ?

[JWNoctis]

This thread will help: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=78021.0

Not entirely sure as I've never tried that myself, but there's a long-standing bug that any attempts to haul caged animals to trade depot releases them.

You can pit them into the cavern, and they will do a quite good job on exploration, and provide a nice lookout for those nasty stuff down there.

EDIT: And there's this thread

[Bluerobin]

Yeah I did something similar with rabbits recently and was disappointed when it turned out they were too small to give any meat. If all else fails, they make good totems, though.

[kzwix]

Agreed, BlueRobin, I made totems out of them, but I'd rather use stone or wood. Much easier than having to slaughter a throng of rodents (although a bit less fun, I concede).

JWNoctis, thanks, those threads are really interesting. A shame that the wiki didn't give more information about them

[proxn_punkd]

I think that was WHY the wiki didn't list any butcher returns for them.