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Girlinhat

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Nest Boxes = Animal Trainers?
« on: March 07, 2011, 08:07:21 pm »

So, I've got a poult (a turkey I think?) sitting on a nest box, with about three dozen chicks around her.  The chicks are rapidly getting into fights, as the nest is against a wall, they're crowded, and there's constantly more of them!  While hilarious, I want to weaponize it.

First idea: Chain criminals beside the nest boxes, laugh as they're pecked on endlessly.

Second idea: Chain a war animal beside the next boxes, train fighting skills.

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Re: Nest Boxes = Animal Trainers?
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2011, 08:24:54 pm »

RE: Second idea: I don't think animals will gain any sort of skill with out [CAN_LEARN]. Though adding that tag might have... consequences.
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Re: Nest Boxes = Animal Trainers?
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2011, 08:32:51 pm »

Also: I'm breeding minotaurs as soon as a female shows up.

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Re: Nest Boxes = Animal Trainers?
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 08:40:35 pm »

RE: Second idea: I don't think animals will gain any sort of skill with out [CAN_LEARN]. Though adding that tag might have... consequences be FUN.
I want to try that now...
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Re: Nest Boxes = Animal Trainers?
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 09:03:18 pm »

Third idea: How about training the military by locking them in a small room with a lot of chicks?

Plus food supplies, of course.
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Re: Nest Boxes = Animal Trainers?
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2011, 09:21:40 pm »

While I am at it, maybe I will add the 'trainable' tag to dwarfs... Urist the war-dwarf!
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Re: Nest Boxes = Animal Trainers?
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2011, 10:10:41 pm »

That way a crazy berserk dwarf will have rabies!
I imagine a Dwarven Hunter with a Hunting Dwarf. A dwarf with a crossbow and some leathers, and another one naked, crawling, drooling with a chain around his neck.
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Re: Nest Boxes = Animal Trainers?
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2011, 10:12:03 pm »

That way a crazy berserk dwarf will have rabies!
I imagine a Dwarven Hunter with a Hunting Dwarf. A dwarf with a crossbow and some leathers, and another one naked, crawling, drooling with a chain around his neck.
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Re: Nest Boxes = Animal Trainers?
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2011, 10:17:11 pm »

Third idea: How about training the military by locking them in a small room with a lot of chicks?

Plus food supplies, of course.

But you already put in the chicks...

Hehehehe.
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