Puppies and Kittens!

system · 2014-01-30T05:01:39.000Z

So I was thinking: What horrible dwarven atrocity could I preform in this game of dorfs?

Burning puppies and kittens in magma.

Then I though of C:DDA.

I thought of how we have tameable cats and dogs.

Then I though why can’t tame animals in C:DDA breed?

So now we are here, I want breed able animals. Animals would generate gender upon taming (since you can’t examine the animal closely while it eats your face).

Usefulness:
Obviously for the meat farming potential of course! Dogs and cats would be a good source of lean, dubious meat. Also they would be tame upon birthing! Breed dog armies! Swarm amigara horrors with fluffy adorable kittens!

How:
We would do a proximity thing, if an animal of a different gender gets within 5 tiles of an animal of different gender they would impregnate the female. After a season the female would produce a litter, and after another season they would go to full size. Then another 3 for full reproductive function. Litters would be 4 babies flat.

Unbalanced ness:
?Free? Source of meat: Not viable with the 2 season (28 day) wait time. This would take a game-crashing amount of animals. Puppies and kittens don’t produce meat.

Unethical/PETA: And you can kill zombified children but you cannot kill an annoying, loud, mean ass cat? Or a large, dumb, semi-loyal cow? Be a man! It’s you or them!

Too much work/Poor implementation ideas:
I agree the animal proximity thing isn’t great, but it is simple enough for new players to understand. This also helps with the de-population of dogs after gathering 3-7 of them for an army. This way you can get a reasonable amount to be useful without it being OP. This shouldn’t be too much work for what I’ve suggested.

TL;DR

kevin.granade · 2014-01-30T05:14:55.000Z

Implementation-wise, it might be better to have a “put in barn/coop/stall/field” action that implies the start of animal husbandry type things. Then you interact with the affected terrain piece to do actions like gather eggs/milk, or feed the animals.
Slaughter and butchering would probably just be manual, no need to add a seperate system for that.
Oh yea, and having sufficient animals kept together would do a breeding check or something periodically.

Inquisitor_Dust · 2014-01-30T05:16:59.000Z

Cataclysm: Harvest Moon? I’m totally ok with this. I still need to get a proper farm going though…

system · 2014-01-30T05:19:00.000Z

I wouldn’t mind a henhouse/barn for animals. A nice little UI, use the tent code for building, lead animals into it like a trap.

I just want some animal husbandry so I can get more dogs for my slime-farming army.

Inadequate · 2014-01-30T05:20:19.000Z

That would be absolutely wonderful. I’ve longed for proper farming ever since I started playing this game. It would make a much better case for a stable base over a mobile one, too. I imagine growing crops and breeding animals would be difficult on any vehicle, no matter the size.

HunterAlpha1 · 2014-01-30T22:11:58.000Z

[quote=“gtaguy, post:1, topic:4909”]Unethical/PETA: And you can kill zombified children but you cannot kill an annoying, loud, mean ass cat? Or a large, dumb, semi-loyal cow? Be a man! It’s you or them![/quote]pretty sure PETA doesn’t give a shit about killing human children, all they care about is their precious goddamn spotted owl.

system · 2014-01-31T01:22:25.000Z

If god didn’t want us to eat animals he shouldn’t have made them so goddamn delicious.

^ This to everyone who doesn’t like to eat meat.

StopSignal · 2014-01-31T01:49:21.000Z

[quote=“gtaguy, post:1, topic:4909”]Usefulness:
Obviously for the meat farming potential of course! Dogs and cats would be a good source of lean, dubious meat.[/quote]

system · 2014-01-31T02:15:08.000Z

I nearly posted the ZippoCat gif.

Then I thought about me getting banned.

Then I realized I don’t give much of a shit, but here is a spoiler incase you are out of eye bleach: