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Author Topic: What on earth am i supposed to do with all these migrants?  (Read 3176 times)

Vox

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Re: What on earth am i supposed to do with all these migrants?
« Reply #30 on: November 01, 2011, 06:48:46 pm »
Quote from: ASCIt on October 31, 2011, 08:30:23 pm
Nah, everything in a cage gets let out when you haul it to the depot. I assume it's because they're stored in the cage which, being a container, acts like other containers. They're seperate entities, so you'd need to designate them both to trade, but you can't designate living creatures to be sold unless they're with their cage. See the problem?
No they don't.
I sell tamed badgers constantly to trade caravans.
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Re: What on earth am i supposed to do with all these migrants?
« Reply #31 on: November 01, 2011, 06:56:32 pm »
Quote from: Vox on November 01, 2011, 06:48:46 pm
Quote from: ASCIt on October 31, 2011, 08:30:23 pm
Nah, everything in a cage gets let out when you haul it to the depot. I assume it's because they're stored in the cage which, being a container, acts like other containers. They're seperate entities, so you'd need to designate them both to trade, but you can't designate living creatures to be sold unless they're with their cage. See the problem?
No they don't.
I sell tamed badgers constantly to trade caravans.

Tamed, though. If they were hostile badgers they would spook the dwarf mid-shipment and end up being released because transporting animals in cages is bugged.
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Re: What on earth am i supposed to do with all these migrants?
« Reply #32 on: November 01, 2011, 09:38:29 pm »
I find that a small army of haulers-to-be makes mass jobs go much quicker. I'm on a 4x3 map and sieges can be killed and processed within a month.
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Quote from: fivex on March 07, 2011, 02:37:19 am
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Re: What on earth am i supposed to do with all these migrants?
« Reply #33 on: November 01, 2011, 09:40:34 pm »
I keep reading this thread's title as "What on earth am i supposed to do with all these midgets?"

Which is also accurate, I suppose...
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Re: What on earth am i supposed to do with all these migrants?
« Reply #34 on: November 01, 2011, 10:43:26 pm »
I use migrants with unneeded jobs for stuff like mass hauling, construction, farming, etc.*, or put them on military duty. I really don't see the point of killing them, they may take up more food but i have plenty to go around, and there's always gonna be something i need doing that requires a lot of workers.

*Assuming there isn't a needed job i can put them on instead. I don't care if they gotta train from scratch, i'd rather start training up a blacksmith now than wait around hoping to get one that may or may not be particularly skilled in a migrant wave.
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Re: What on earth am i supposed to do with all these migrants?
« Reply #35 on: November 02, 2011, 12:05:16 am »
Can you send a few over to Trammeledclasped? We haven't had any newbies in two seasons, and we're only at 14 dwarves.
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Re: What on earth am i supposed to do with all these migrants?
« Reply #36 on: November 02, 2011, 01:34:22 am »
It would be really awesome if we could swap dwarf seeds the way we swap worldgen seeds. Runesmith can't do everything.
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Quote from: fivex on March 07, 2011, 02:37:19 am
I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
Quote from: Loud Whispers on July 22, 2012, 03:32:08 pm
Honestly at the time, I didn't see what could go wrong with crowding 80 military Dwarves into a small room with a necromancer for the purpose of making bacon.

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Re: What on earth am i supposed to do with all these migrants?
« Reply #37 on: November 02, 2011, 08:58:51 am »
My entire army is basically migrants. None of my original 7 are in the army.
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