Sentient creatures (such as goblins or animal people), forgotten beasts and titans are among the creatures that can never be trained or tamed. Most creatures have one of the two flags, but there are exceptions, notably some underground creatures. Just because you have a creature stowed away in your cages stockpile, does not mean that it can be trained, as only creatures with the or creature token can be trained. Note that animal traps are not used in this role, but are instead used by trappers to capture live vermin, and thus, surprisingly enough, trappers are not involved in the trapping of actual creatures. The same is true of the caverns, although since they are usually not nearly so expansive, capturing passing creatures is a little easier on the other hand, you have to be much more worried about exposing your dwarves to the various subterranean nasties. Wild creatures can only be captured by cage traps as above-ground traffic is, as a rule, unrestricted, and as creatures can enter and exit the map from any direction, the only reliable way to force wildlife into your cages is to build a lot of them. Which animals appear at your fortress (and thus which animals you can train, besides the subterranean creatures that are randomly present) is dependent upon your surroundings, which is in turn dependent upon the local biome or biomes, if your fortress overlaps multiple regions. In order to train an animal, you must first have an animal to train, so before you can do any training, you must capture some wild animals. The butchers have it worse, they gotta 'obtain' the dogs' leather. Taming vermin instead requires a vermin catcher's shop. There is no way to tame a specific type of vermin.Īn animal training zone or pasture is required for all training activities for animals. Which animals are known and how well can be checked in the second sub-tab in 'Animals' tab. Each animal on the list can be assigned a trainer, who will then train (if needed) the animal, increase its training (if not already tame) or train it for war or hunting (if selected for hunting or training). The Pets/Livestock tab of the citizen information menu ( u) has a list of all animals that belong to your civilization, and are tame, trained, or trainable. They also train certain kinds of captured live vermin. An animal trainer works with animals, either training wild ones or training certain species for war or hunting. Animal trainer is the skill associated with the animal training labor.

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