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GreatWyrmGold

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Badgers? Meh.
« on: April 24, 2011, 11:53:22 am »
A dozen badgers? Getting angry over nothing. The "combat" reports are about 95% badgers becoming enraged, 4% livestock and citizens not getting hurt by attacks, and maybe 1% combat-the yak and a badger hurting each other's right legs.
Badgers have even run up to the fort entrance, multiple times.
Why are badgers scary again?
EDIT: Now closer to 93% becoming enraged, 4% not-hitting, 2% my carpenter strangling a badgers until it died, and 1% other combat.
« Last Edit: April 24, 2011, 11:58:56 am by GreatWyrmGold »
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Sonlirain

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Re: Badgers? Meh.
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2011, 12:27:48 pm »
You will know when a badger boar finds You.
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2011, 12:31:02 pm »
The danger is in the quantity and the rage. If there are badgers, there are usually a lot of badgers. When they become enraged, they attack your dwarves (I think rage also adds damage to attacks). With many badgers comes many attacks, as well as many job disrupts. If they go into the fort, your industries are basically put on hold until they leave. They can also seriously harm lone dwarves.

Overall, badgers aren't usually too terribly big a problem. Just watch out for the honey badgers.
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Flying Dice

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Re: Badgers? Meh.
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2011, 01:06:00 pm »
Normal badgers generally aren't a problem. With Giant Badgers, your survivors are spending the next season picking up limbs and a scraps of flesh for burial.
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Nidokoenig

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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2011, 01:17:31 pm »
Quantity is generally the thing. In arena testing for parasprites for the My Little Fortress mod, I found that if these 500 gram creatures outnumbered a 250 kilo pony by between five and ten to one, it wasn't certain the pony would survive or even win. Outside of the arena, parasprites are rhesus macaque-like pests that scatter, but with badgers becoming enraged, they'll mob your dwarves. Basically, they're dangerous enough to force you to form a semi-serious squad to deal with them. I tend to grab a few badgers or honey badgers, tame them and pasture them with the surface livestock, give my buffalo a fighting chance in an ambush.

As for giant badgers, fuck that noise. We're living underground from now on. Here's a thought, has anyone modded in a giant honey badger, or honey badgerman?
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Re: Badgers? Meh.
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2011, 01:25:26 pm »
my little fortress?
is that df+ponies?
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« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2011, 01:34:25 pm »
Oh yes. Includes horse armour, parasprites, wheat worms as crops, and zebras, demon ponies and cave ponies as optional extras.
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