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== Uses for elephants == | == Uses for elephants == | ||
− | Despite all their dangers, having swarms of wild elephants outside your fortress can be a good thing. [[Marksdwarf|Marksdwarves]] receive experience every time they fire a [[bolt]], usually bumping their marksdwarf skill a few levels before they manage to score a kill. Elephants also make great pets - set some cage traps up and capture a few, tame them (making sure that they don't have a name already), and then use them for fortress defense (or food). [[Trade]]rs will pay a LOT for even an untamed elephant, so they make good trade items. Named elephants can also be traded to the elves, provided they're not in a wooden cage. Elephants produce a stack of 16 [[bone]]s when [[butcher]]ed, and these can be used to make a stack of 80 bone bolts, meaning your marksdwarves will have plenty of shots before needing to gather more [[ammo]]. Raising elephants as livestock can also be useful - even though they take ''10 years'' to grow to adulthood, elephant calves can still be butchered (immediately after birth, no less) to yield 11 meat/bones apiece, slightly more than adult [[cow]]s and [[horse]]s (which themselves need to be at least 1 year old) | + | Despite all their dangers, having swarms of wild elephants outside your fortress can be a good thing. [[Marksdwarf|Marksdwarves]] receive experience every time they fire a [[bolt]], usually bumping their marksdwarf skill a few levels before they manage to score a kill. Elephants also make great pets - set some cage traps up and capture a few, tame them (making sure that they don't have a name already), and then use them for fortress defense (or food). [[Trade]]rs will pay a LOT for even an untamed elephant, so they make good trade items. Named elephants can also be traded to the elves, provided they're not in a wooden cage. Elephants produce a stack of 16 [[bone]]s when [[butcher]]ed, and these can be used to make a stack of 80 bone bolts, meaning your marksdwarves will have plenty of shots before needing to gather more [[ammo]]. Raising elephants as livestock can also be useful - even though they take ''10 years'' to grow to adulthood, elephant calves can still be butchered (immediately after birth, no less) to yield 11 meat/bones apiece, slightly more than adult [[cow]]s and [[horse]]s (which themselves need to be at least 1 year old). |
If you modify your game files to make elephants trainable, War Elephants can form a terrifying assault force. | If you modify your game files to make elephants trainable, War Elephants can form a terrifying assault force. |