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Animal caretaker

2024-09-29T02:17:41Z

AdamantineBallistaArrow: v50 has had dwarfvet for a while now

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| skill = Animal Caretaker
| profession = [[Ranger]]
| job name = [[Animal care]]
| attributes =
* Agility
* Analytical Ability
* Memory
* Empathy
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'''Animal caretaking''' ''should be'' the [[skill]] used by [[dwarves]] to treat any [[wound|injured]] [[pet]] assigned to them (as long as they have the [[labor]] enabled), as well as feeding any hungry/thirsty animals on chains (by default, only grazers).

Currently, however, the first part does nothing for animals (see below), but dwarves can gain experience in it during worldgen, leading to animal caretakers appearing in [[migrant]] waves. The second part, feeding chained grazers, grants no experience, but can satisfy "stay occupied" and "help somebody" [[need]]s. Note that dwarves will not feed animals in loose (stockpiled) cages, but will feed animals in built cages (if the food has seeds, the seeds will remain in the cage; they can only be removed by dumping).

Veterinary medicine is an expected feature that has not yet been implemented into the game, so animal caretaking does not actually serve its healthcare purpose as of yet.{{bug|349}} Wounded animals will instead heal on their own - or not at all, which makes even your greatest animal caretakers equivalent to [[peasant]]s. Animal caretaking is [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?msg=7312290 not planned to be implemented in the near future], and as such, animal caretakers who arrive in migrant waves should be immediately repurposed into other, actually functional professions.

While non-functional in the vanilla game, the utility [[Utility:DFHack|DFHack]] can be used to make animal caretaking work through the {{DFtext|dwarfvet enable|white}} command; when the plugin is active, injured pets will rest in any [[activity zone]] marked as '''both''' a hospital and a training zone, where dwarves will then provide them with the necessary care. The command {{DFtext|dwarfvet disable|white}} can be used to disable the plugin if necessary.

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Impala

2024-09-28T03:53:19Z

AdamantineBallistaArrow: can't believe i didn't notice that

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'''Impalas''' are wild [[Creature|animals]] found in [[tropical]] [[savanna]]s and [[grassland]]s, where they appear in herds of 5-10 individuals. These herbivores are a little smaller than the average [[dwarf]] and are entirely benign, doing little but meandering about aimlessly through your surroundings, just waiting to be taken down by a [[hunter]] or [[squad]], only rarely retaliating with bites and kicks. Newborn impalas are known as ''fauns''.

Impalas can be captured in [[cage]] [[trap]]s and [[Animal trainer|trained]] into low-value exotic [[pet]]s. They give equivalent returns to [[goat]]s when [[butcher]]ed. When trained, they become [[grazer]]s, and as such must be assigned to a patch of [[grass]] in order to not have them starve.

Some dwarves [[Preferences|like]] impalas for their ''mighty leaps''.

{{D for Dwarf}}


Tamed impalas reportedly feel better the less [[knowledge]] they possess.

[[File:Trotting impala ram, crop.jpg|thumb|center|400px|Admired for its ''mighty leaps''.]]

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Impala

2024-09-25T02:43:17Z

AdamantineBallistaArrow: Added a D for Dwarf section

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'''Impalas''' are wild [[Creature|animals]] found in [[tropical]] [[savanna]]s and [[grassland]]s, where they appear in herds of 5-10 individuals. These herbivores are a little smaller than the average [[dwarf]] and are entirely benign, doing little but meandering about aimlessly through your surroundings, just waiting to be taken down by a [[hunter]] or [[squad]], only rarely retaliating with bites and kicks. Newborn impalas are known as ''fauns''.

Impalas can be captured in [[cage]] [[trap]]s and [[Animal trainer|trained]] into low-value exotic [[pet]]s. They give equivalent returns to [[goat]]s when [[butcher]]ed. When trained, they become [[grazer]]s, and as such must be assigned to a patch of [[grass]] in order to not have them starve.

Some dwarves [[Preferences|like]] impalas for their ''mighty leaps''.

{{D for Dwarf}}


Tamed imapalas reportedly feel better the less [[knowledge]] they possess.

[[File:Trotting impala ram, crop.jpg|thumb|center|400px|Admired for its ''mighty leaps''.]]

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