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[Naryar]

Only one animal ? If there's only a dwarf and an animal, they most likely won't fight.

Now maybe drop a few wild flesh balls in the child care ? Mwahahahahaha !

[Girlinhat]

I believe one child and one animal would, if you declared a meeting zone.

[Naryar]

Worth investigating... i'll gonna make an 1x1 room for this.

[Naryar]

Aaaaand it doesn't work.

Needed to build a 1x1 bedroom to attract the child, dropped food and a dog on it, designated it a meeting zone. Dog isn't attacking at all.

[Naryar]

triple post

However, the one-tile design does seem to work better. I should do XXScienceXX because I have a feeling that the more animals in there, the less the child has chances of being attacked, since I do believe angry tame animals attack a random creature in their tile, and the more animals in there, the less chance the child has to be targeted. But more animals = more attacks, and if my probability calculi are right number of animals don't change much. So we just need to add enough animals to trigger violence.

The best animals should be large and harmless. Like a GDS without pincers and stinger (good luck getting that in fortress mode though), a giant earthworm, a flesh ball...

[olopi]

i think a 5x5 room with animals Pastured/CHained in the edges should work, they wont attack each other

[Girlinhat]

Something tells me you didn't think that one through very far.

[MehMuffin]

Oh dear. I tried this with thralls and such, but...

[monk12]

If absolutely nothing else, you should end up with a scarred 12 year old with a tolerance for tragedy and skills slightly higher than the common migrant.

And possibly horribly deteriorated mental attributes.

[Girlinhat]

Very likely deteriorated, but I do wonder how normal children compare, since they never labor either.  Do the castaway science husks lose attributes, or have we just not noticed normal child decay?

[BigFatStupidHead]

Now, if we cannot use only one child and one animal to fight, and one child with multiple animals results in animal infighting, can we stack multiple children with one animal? I have found quantum meeting halls seem to angry up the unpastured animals despite no other animals being around.

[Girlinhat]

But then you risk friendship - or worse, marriage!  That's almost the exact opposite of what we need.

[IT 000]

triple post

However, the one-tile design does seem to work better. I should do XXScienceXX because I have a feeling that the more animals in there, the less the child has chances of being attacked, since I do believe angry tame animals attack a random creature in their tile, and the more animals in there, the less chance the child has to be targeted. But more animals = more attacks, and if my probability calculi are right number of animals don't change much. So we just need to add enough animals to trigger violence.

The best animals should be large and harmless. Like a GDS without pincers and stinger (good luck getting that in fortress mode though), a giant earthworm, a flesh ball...

You could try having a bigger animal with a less powerful attack, might require some modding.

[Reudh]

I think, to avoid anything to graphic and horrifying, write it from the perspective of a scientist or doctor, overseeing the experiment.

But that's just my personal taste, let's see what you can write.

Will do in about four days, uni's getting in the way of stuff.

[Di]

But then you risk friendship - or worse, marriage!  That's almost the exact opposite of what we need.

That is? We could drag some eugenics in this as well. My current project involved several rooms with paired children, but little buggers messed it up and now all rooms except one have a brother and sister inside. Also it's a complete pain to organize animal pitting to more than a couple of such rooms.