Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[AzuredreamsXT]

I mean really, dig them a shallow grave and be on with life. Dwarves in this game can be such pansies

[acetech09]

I drown pets to save fps - my blacksmith isn't always busy so I have him churn out gold coffins simply to keep him busy and cause I'm chock-full of gold - I have a special mausoleum for the sacrificed pets.

[Warped]

You've obviously never raised a pup to a dog in real life. I love my dogs more than some family members.

Pets > Humans/Dorfs

[King DZA]

I think it's cute that my dwarves feel a need to honor their dead pets like their dwarven kin. It shows that, even though they can be insane, sadistic, or down right retarded, they can still show love for something other than they're own kind.

[AzuredreamsXT]

I have all pets pastured in an enclosed room. As more and more of them are crammed in, they begin to bite and claw at one another. Over time, the walls are painted red with their blood and the room is always choked with miasma. Now and then i'll order the butcher to round up a few of them and butcher them for bones if a moody dwarf needs some. Survival of the fittest! The dead rot where they fall, dwarves should be hardened emotionless forces for industry and battle imo.

[Poindexterity]

you'd need to be able to fill in said grave for it to work.
as of yet, no means save obsidian casting or controlled cave ins can do such a thing.

[acetech09]

It shows that, even though they can be insane, sadistic, or down right retarded...

Oh, the dwarves are just fine. We are the sadistic ones. If we didn't play, the dwarves wouldn't be drunk all the time.

You've obviously never raised a pup to a dog in real life. I love my dogs more than some family members.

I'm a cat person myself, dogs are cute but I couldn't stand raising one. I'll try not turn this thread into a dog vs. cat thread...

I have all pets pastured in an enclosed room. As more and more of them are crammed in, they begin to bite and claw at one another. Over time, the walls are painted red with their blood and the room is always choked with miasma. Now and then i'll order the butcher to round up a few of them and butcher them for bones if a moody dwarf needs some. Survival of the fittest! The dead rot where they fall, dwarves should be hardened emotionless forces for industry and battle imo.

I did that for a time, but drowning leaves the same effect at a fraction of the time and, more importantly, I don't want to leave the masterfully built drowning room inactive between sieges.

[Psieye]

The dead rot where they fall, dwarves should be hardened emotionless forces for industry and battle imo.

Then you're not doing it right. They won't get hardened under your current arrangement. No, you need a pet-drop-chute show in your dining room or meeting zone to harden your dwarves.

[AzuredreamsXT]

The dead rot where they fall, dwarves should be hardened emotionless forces for industry and battle imo.

Then you're not doing it right. They won't get hardened under your current arrangement. No, you need a pet-drop-chute show in your dining room or meeting zone to harden your dwarves.

lolol that is brilliant, is such a thing possible?

[acetech09]

The dead rot where they fall, dwarves should be hardened emotionless forces for industry and battle imo.

Then you're not doing it right. They won't get hardened under your current arrangement. No, you need a pet-drop-chute show in your dining room or meeting zone to harden your dwarves.

lolol that is brilliant, is such a thing possible?

By asking that question, grasshopper, it shows you still have much to learn. (well, there's always much to learn about df, but asking if something is possible in dwarf fortress is one heck of a question.)

EDIT: heh, to actually to be a bit more clear about the question and not just give an implied meaning, yes. it is possible. Simply put a hatch cover/drawbridge over a >10 z-level fall into your dining room, pasture animals over it, pull the lever. For a bit cleaner system, you can make windows surrounding the impact area, and even make them land on a hatch cover, not the ground, so then you can then open it to drop the remains into a rotting pit below, to gather bones.

[sniken]

I turn off pets burial on coffins by default

look in d_init.txt and change
[COFFIN_NO_PETS_DEFAULT:NO]
to
[COFFIN_NO_PETS_DEFAULT:YES]

this way when ever you make a coffin a burial place, it will have the allow pets disabled for you.

[Nyxalinth]

I just had to have my cat put to sleep due to illness the other day--she was only 10--and well, she will have an urn.  In Dwarf Fortress, I don't usually bother, unless it ws a really special animal.

[Flare]

Q: If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?

A: AzuredreamsXT

[ZzarkLinux]

I atomsmash my pets, so my dwarves get some really unhappy thoughts about "Lost a pet" and "Forced to endure the decay of a pet".

They'll get over it.

[Loud Whispers]

Well apparently my post about weapon traps and kittens didn't get posted here.

Code: [Select]

      C
      ~
      ~
      ~
      ~
    Splat
Large Serrated Disc

      +
Dining room
      =
Dorf's don't give a flying... Oh yeah forum rules.