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[ThatAussieGuy]

My fortresses tend to do okay, but i cant seem to keep animals alive.  I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong.

[Sphalerite]

In the current version many animals need to graze, and will starve to death if they don't.  Grazing animals will need to be assigned to a pasture zone, either outside on grass, or inside in an area that has cave moss growing.

[Dutchling]

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Pasture
some useful wiki information

[ThatAussieGuy]

Cheers and thanks

[Number4]

Best practical grazing animals (not exotic) are IMO sheep, goats and pigs. They won't devastate your pastures and give milk (and wool if you want that)

[Oliolli]

Rhinos and elephants are the best grazing animals. Seriously.

[HorridOwn4ge]

They can't even eat enough to stay alive.

[Satarus]

Make sure the pasture is big enough.  You can make safe pastures by breaching the caverns for their spores and then digging huge underground pastures into the soil layers.

[ThatAussieGuy]

That might be tricky for Knifemurders. One cavern is just shy of completely FULL of cave spider webs, another is mostly water and the third below it is being drowned out with water from previously mentioned cavern. I didn't like the locals.

[Number4]

No. Once you have broken the caverns (which you obviously did) spores from it come to EVERY underground soil site. Dig away a large amount of space in a soil layer (far away from the caverns) and there will be moss growing there, on which animals can graze like on real grass. They even can graze on staring eyeballs in evil biomes (which are Exactly What It Says On The Tin)

[ThatAussieGuy]

Ah, cheers.  Though I'll be a little saddened.  Animals constantly dropping dead was part of the charm of the well-named Knifemurders (STILL burying the dead from a tantrum spiral after a year or so)

[Number4]

Ah, cheers.  Though I'll be a little saddened.  Animals constantly dropping dead was part of the charm of the well-named Knifemurders (STILL burying the dead from a tantrum spiral after a year or so)

Don't worry. The first Fun forgotten beast will bring a return to those happy times.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Oh and to the bashers of the elephant/rhino based meat industry--just don't tame 'em and don't eat the babies (elephant children take a LONG time) to mature, adult are fair game and will feed you for centuries--just tame immediately before you slaughter.

[HorridOwn4ge]

Wait you're australian and your fort name is KnifeMurders, oh god the irony (Ya call that a knife mate? I'll show you one).

[ThatAussieGuy]

Wait you're australian and your fort name is KnifeMurders, oh god the irony (Ya call that a knife mate? I'll show you one).

Oh man, i hadn't realized that one.  Laughing so, so hard now.  And I've had a few Forgotten Beasts.  My one good militia squad tends to take them apart with axes.  It's the Blind Cave Ogres that caused the most Fun.

I don't get any Rhinos or Elephants near Knifemurders.  It's set halfway up a mountain, (with the well and farms at the base of the mountain where there's some woodland.  My dwarves have to walk down the mountain every time they want a drink) so all we get are angry Badgers and the odd Giant Eagle.  And one time, Elves riding Giant Eagles (they got in, killed about 3 dwarves before the militia got them and that somehow set the other 100-odd into the afore-mentioned tantrum spiral)