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Once you have a captured, trainable creature trapped in a cage, you can start trying to domesticate it. You will need [[trap#Cage_Trap|cage trap]], an [[Activity zone#Animal training|animal training zone]], and some [[plants]] or [[meat]] depending on whether the animal is herbivorous or carnivorous. To have your animal trainer begin taming a wild animal, use {{k|z}} to open the status screen and select the animal menu. Scroll through the list until your captured wild animal is selected and use {{k|t}} to set a trainer to tame it. Note that if a caged animal is fed a plant, [[seed]]s will stay in the cage. This has no effect on training, but if you later release the animal, you will need to [[Activity zone#Garbage Dump|dump]] the seeds from the cage before it can be reused. | Once you have a captured, trainable creature trapped in a cage, you can start trying to domesticate it. You will need [[trap#Cage_Trap|cage trap]], an [[Activity zone#Animal training|animal training zone]], and some [[plants]] or [[meat]] depending on whether the animal is herbivorous or carnivorous. To have your animal trainer begin taming a wild animal, use {{k|z}} to open the status screen and select the animal menu. Scroll through the list until your captured wild animal is selected and use {{k|t}} to set a trainer to tame it. Note that if a caged animal is fed a plant, [[seed]]s will stay in the cage. This has no effect on training, but if you later release the animal, you will need to [[Activity zone#Garbage Dump|dump]] the seeds from the cage before it can be reused. | ||
− | The trainer will bring food to the cage and | + | The trainer will bring food to the cage and interact with it, bringing it to one of the trained levels (see table at right). A fully wild animal must be trained from its cage, but once an animal has been initially trained and it is no longer wild, it may be safely released from its cage (and preferably assigned to an enclosed [[pasture]] or [[restraint]], to keep it hemmed in case problems arise later). Be warned: trained animals immediately become trapavoid, and will stay so if they ever go wild again, making recapture impossible.{{Bug|6002}} |
− | + | Animals left in a cage cannot be retrained from beyond a wild state (ae. will only be trained from and revert to a wild state), so moving the no longer wild animal out of its cage is necessary for further training. Alternatively, with a difficult to train animal or a poor trainer, you may want to leave the animal in its cage; the Animal will eventually revert back to its wild state, at which point your trainer will train it again, safely giving your trainer experience and also more knowledge about the animal if it's exotic. Note that <tt>[GRAZER]</tt> animals need a pasture to survive, and will die if left to linger in a cage for too long. | |
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The overall difficulty and time required to tame an animal is roughly proportional to its [[List of creatures by pet value|pet value]]. As a general guideline, animals with pet value less than a hundred are easy to train, those with values in the hundreds take some effort and a few years to train well, and creatures with pet values in the thousands such as [[dragon]]s are very slow to train and almost impossible to completely domesticate. | The overall difficulty and time required to tame an animal is roughly proportional to its [[List of creatures by pet value|pet value]]. As a general guideline, animals with pet value less than a hundred are easy to train, those with values in the hundreds take some effort and a few years to train well, and creatures with pet values in the thousands such as [[dragon]]s are very slow to train and almost impossible to completely domesticate. | ||
− | Adult trained animals will slowly revert to their wild origins over time and must | + | Adult trained animals will slowly revert to their wild origins over time and must have a trainer permanently assigned to them (through the animal [[status]] menu) to ensure they remain friendly through regular re-training. Trained animals have a quality associated to their training that affects how long they will retain composure before reverting to the wild, but which may have other effects as well. The last state an animal reaches before it becomes fully wild is semi-wild, at which point the animal sporadically attacks passerby and which prompts a major [[announcement]]. |
− | Dwarves will instinctively know when their animal training partners need retraining, and will prioritize doing so, but will obviously not be able to if they are [[wound|injured]], experiencing a [[strange mood]], or are otherwise unable to reach their trainees. If you assign a single dwarf to an animal (Any available trainer is also an option) only that dwarf will ever attempt to train or retrain the creature, so care must be taken to keep your trainers healthy and available. | + | Dwarves will instinctively know when their animal training partners need retraining, and will prioritize doing so, but will obviously not be able to if they are [[wound|injured]], experiencing a [[strange mood]], do not have the necessary treats, or are otherwise unable to reach their trainees. If you assign a single dwarf to an animal (Any available trainer is also an option) only that dwarf will ever attempt to train or retrain the creature, so care must be taken to keep your trainers healthy and available. |
When training animals that your [[civilization]] has never domesticated before, successful training will result in some knowledge being transferred to your civilization every time the dwarven [[caravan]] returns to the mountainhomes. This has no effect on gameplay within your fortress, but is conjectured to reduce training barriers for future fortresses established by your civilization. Although a number of farm animals are domesticated by your civilization from the beginning of the game, your fortress cannot individually "civilization-level" domesticate a species.<sup><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=121150.0 1]</span></sup> | When training animals that your [[civilization]] has never domesticated before, successful training will result in some knowledge being transferred to your civilization every time the dwarven [[caravan]] returns to the mountainhomes. This has no effect on gameplay within your fortress, but is conjectured to reduce training barriers for future fortresses established by your civilization. Although a number of farm animals are domesticated by your civilization from the beginning of the game, your fortress cannot individually "civilization-level" domesticate a species.<sup><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=121150.0 1]</span></sup> | ||
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=== Taming children === | === Taming children === | ||
− | Only animals with the | + | Only animals with the <tt>[CHILD]</tt> tag can [[breeding|breed]] and have children, but any animal children that they have offer a significant perk: the possibility of eventually fully domesticating a species. Note that animals cannot get pregnant in cages (in fact, this is the ''only'' time they can't), so you'll have to move past the initial training stage to have them - ae. there is no such thing as wild fortress-born animal children. |
− | Animals born from | + | Animals born from partially tamed parents will not revert to a wild state while they are still children: for example, if a wild female wolf is captured and trained up to the +T+ level, and gives birth, the pups may forget any training they're put under as pups, but will never go lower than Semi-Wild while they're still pups. They can, and will, revert to a wild state when they become adult wolves, though going back to a fully wild state will still take some time after they've reached adulthood. |
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− | + | Animals who are born from a trained animal will inherit the mother's trained status, including the training quality. This allows procession to full domestication, as when children with a high enough taming level are tamed well enough, they may become domesticated (and will never need retraining again, unlike their mother). Interestingly, the training level of the father does not count for anything when it comes to the child, but perhaps this is unsurprising given that in Dwarf Fortress animals can breed from across the entire map, without ever even seeing each other. Only children can be domesticated, and once the young animal grows up the opportunity for domestication will no longer be available.<sup><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=121150.0 1]</span></sup> | |
− | Only children can be domesticated, and once the young animal grows up the opportunity for domestication will no longer be available.<sup><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=121150.0 1]</span></sup> | ||
− | Animals in Dwarf Fortress give birth in one of two ways, either with live births or by laying and incubating [[egg]]s. Child-rearing animals that give birth to their young is easy: as long as there is at least one male of that species somewhere on the map, children | + | Animals in Dwarf Fortress give birth in one of two ways, either with live births or by laying and incubating [[egg]]s. Child-rearing animals that give birth to their young is easy: as long as there is at least one male of that species is somewhere on the map, children will be born, inheriting their parent's pasture statuses in the process. Egg-layers are more complicated; there must be an open constructed [[nest box]] for the female to occupy and lay a clutch of eggs in, and they and the mother must remain undisturbed during the process as the mother must incubate her eggs, even for training. Thus the eggs must be [[forbid]]den and the mother should have her trainer de-assigned during the duration of her stay; they also will ''not'' inherit their mother's pasture status.<sup><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=121150.0 1]</span></sup> The resultant children will have the taming status of their mother when they were ''laid'', not hatched. |
== Training tame animals == | == Training tame animals == | ||
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=== Train a war animal === | === Train a war animal === | ||
− | Requires: An [[Cage|uncaged]] tame animal with {{token|TRAINABLE|c}} (or {{token|TRAINABLE_WAR|c}}, although no such animals exist, as currently all war-trainable animals can be trained for hunting as well and are under the inclusive {{token|TRAINABLE|c}} tag), an animal training activity zone, and an animal trainer. [[Pasture|Pastured]] animals can only be trained if the zone is located within their pasture | + | Requires: An [[Cage|uncaged]] tame animal with {{token|TRAINABLE|c}} (or {{token|TRAINABLE_WAR|c}}, although no such animals exist, as currently all war-trainable animals can be trained for hunting as well and are under the inclusive {{token|TRAINABLE|c}} tag), an animal training activity zone, and an animal trainer. [[Pasture|Pastured]] animals can only be trained if the zone is located within their pasture. |
War animals are significantly stronger than their untrained counterparts; war dogs make excellent companions when starting a fortress, when you can't spare many dwarves for fighting. | War animals are significantly stronger than their untrained counterparts; war dogs make excellent companions when starting a fortress, when you can't spare many dwarves for fighting. | ||
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Note that hostile egg-layers, such as [[cave crocodile]]s, might not use [[nest box]]es and therefore generate no offspring. | Note that hostile egg-layers, such as [[cave crocodile]]s, might not use [[nest box]]es and therefore generate no offspring. | ||
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==Bugs== | ==Bugs== |