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[Dante]

PET:NONE:HONEY_BEE:NONE would be what you use in a reaction. Or better yet, VERMIN instead of PET to make them wild bees.

I just modded chickens to use [LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:VERMIN:NONE:SPIDER_CAVE:NONE], and they did indeed leave live cave spiders in their nest boxes, but once I deconstructed them, the spiders immediately ran away at hyper speed and didn't seem to leave any webs behind, so creating vermin as items presumably doesn't initialize all of their properties correctly.

Interesting... I added a reaction making 100 bees in the arena and dropped them, and failed to get stung. Neither PET nor VERMIN bees stung me.

Similarly, in fort mode, fort mode, tame and wild bees spawned by reaction did not sting... but only when I modded them all into a single caste and removed hives. When I left hiveable queens in, some of the reaction-spawned bees themselves generated other bees, and those new bees did sting.

[Grimlocke]

The unusual egg tag is LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:(item):(item subtype)

It wont read the 3rd part that defines which sort of vermin the game should use.

That is incorrect - the syntax is [LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:item:material], where "item" is an item+subtype (e.g. WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_WHIP, THRONE:NONE, or VERMIN:NONE) and "material" is whatever the object is made of (e.g. INORGANIC:IRON, CREATURE_MAT:CAT:LEATHER, or "CREATURE_NAME:NONE" if you happen to be creating a vermin).

I just modded chickens to use [LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:VERMIN:NONE:SPIDER_CAVE:NONE], and they did indeed leave live cave spiders in their nest boxes, but once I deconstructed them, the spiders immediately ran away at hyper speed and didn't seem to leave any webs behind, so creating vermin as items presumably doesn't initialize all of their properties correctly.

Is that so, guess I misunderstood [EGG_MATERIAL:<mat tokens>] and [LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:<item tokens>] in the change log. Figured it would work the same as the BUTCHER_SPECIAL tag.

Poor chicken though.

[iyaerP]

So what happens if you set the chicken to lay dwarves as eggs?

[Acanthus117]

Dwarf Fortress : Crimes Against Nature, Man, God, Sanity and Simple Common Sense Simulator.

Fixed.

[EmperorJon]

Make chickens that lay bees and then make chickens a harvestable product from beehives.

 

[Pickerel]

My input for a future addition:
A special nest box called a 'cabbage patch'.
Storks that lay dwarf eggs in said boxes.

[EmeraldWind]

Make chickens that lay bees and then make chickens a harvestable product from beehives.

 

So now... which comes first... the bee or the chicken?

[Uristocrat]

Make chickens that lay bees and then make chickens a harvestable product from beehives.

 

So now... which comes first... the bee or the chicken?

The chickabee came first.

[GamerKnight]

Dwarf Fortress : Crimes Against Nature, Man, God, Sanity and Simple Common Sense Simulator.

Fixed.

Sigged.

[Acanthus117]

Oh, that made me happy xD

[Bohandas]

Lol, internet noob.  Just remember, that these are considered "eggs" so it doesn't come out of the anus...

Except that chickens only have one hole that they excrete(and lay eggs) from.

Damn! You beat me to it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca

[Bohandas]

The unusual egg tag is LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:(item):(item subtype)

It wont read the 3rd part that defines which sort of vermin the game should use.

That is incorrect - the syntax is [LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:item:material], where "item" is an item+subtype (e.g. WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_WHIP, THRONE:NONE, or VERMIN:NONE) and "material" is whatever the object is made of (e.g. INORGANIC:IRON, CREATURE_MAT:CAT:LEATHER, or "CREATURE_NAME:NONE" if you happen to be creating a vermin).

Technically it would be [LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:<item>:<item subtype>:<material>:<material subtype>], wouldn't it?

[Necro910]

My input for a future addition:
A special nest box called a 'cabbage patch'.
Storks that lay dwarf eggs in said boxes.

Better yet...

Make Giant Cave Spiders give live birth to dwarves!

[Buzzing_Beard]

I read that some people would give all the leftover brood comb (baby bees) from skep-harvesting to their chickens. I guess that's better than letting them rot; or eating them .

[MarcAFK]

mmm broodcomb on toast with cheese *nomnomnom*