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[Eric Blank]

Well yes this works too... You're no fun...
Did you set their attack trigger tags lower as well? That was always fun.
*embark*
*dragon! Quick, everyone get inside the fort the miners haven't started digging yet!*
*die*

It arrived as a megabeast from the map edge, wasn't a local resident.

[Kweri]

This may be of interest: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=86033
Looks like you need to take out the MEGABEAST tag for them to breed.

[MrShovelFace]

i always found it strange the notions that dragons horde treasure


do they pay tax on it?
what do they have to buy with it?
how do they carry it to their lair without thumbs?

[They Got Leader]

Actually I just used advanced worldgen and made 500 megabeasts on a pocket region.

Oh my. That is... lovely.

[Girlinhat]

I've always taken dragons to be a sort of crow.  They compulsively horde, attracted to shiny things, and the usual livestock and life necessities.  A lot of myths claim the horde as a mating ritual, like birds building bigger nests to impress a mate, or a territorial thing, as a way to show their might as a collection of riches.  In my own writings of a sort of half-dragon race, I put as a sort of compulsion, almost a tradition.  The great family halls would have deep rooms dedicated to storage of treasures, and bedrooms would often have metal inlays on the walls and trinkets set in little nooks, while even the peasant homes would have racks to hang necklaces or goblets off of.  It was a sort of status symbol, a rite of passage that 'you're not a true dragon unless you've got yourself a bit of gold.'  My view also had it extend that the dragons in general were a bit more opulent with things, not afraid to take a little more time to do things a little bit better.

Oh, and dragon claws are most often shown similar to an eagle's talons, able to close and grasp around things, but I've seen some art of feral dragons carrying pieces of their horde in the mouth.

[elf-fondling human]

Anyone here remember Pocket dragons? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6hm7obJ08M?

[They Got Leader]

Nope, can't say I remember that...

[Solifuge]

Since letting the game run for 1000 years is mostly infeasible, why not temporarily mod Dragons to mature more quickly, if the goal is to guard and protect the newborn dragon.

[Girlinhat]

If we're going to mod like that, might as well raise dogs.

[Solifuge]

I was just proposing a way to do it that started quickly... especially if you're just speeding through those 1000 years anyway. This is, again, all assuming that the point was starting to play once the Dragon was an Adult, and the rest was just set-up.

[They Got Leader]

Maybe make them mature in 200 years? Or something?

[Girlinhat]

You can set worldgen to end after 1,000 years, but that's not the issue.  I'm not up to date on my egg style of breeding, but dragons have no [CHILD:X] tag while the females do have an EGG tag, so I think this makes them "breeding age" as soon as they're born (ie, they skip 'puppy' and go straight to 'dog') but much like turkeys, they are not full size just because they're labeled as an adult.  However, the overall idea of the fort is to have a dragon hatch in your fort and survive for 1,000 years, when they reach full size.

[Melissia]

A bit of pedantry here... it"s hoard in this, not horde...

[They Got Leader]

@Melissia: what?

@Girlinhat: We should go to the modding page for these answers.

[Girlinhat]

Derp yeah, horde is referring to a host of individuals, hoard is the act of gathering or the gathered bunch.  But it's kinda, a large host of individual treasures?  Right...?