Breeding - Revision history

Zippy: Added image.

2025-04-14T19:48:35Z

Added image.

Ziusudra: added orientation link

2025-02-08T23:04:21Z

added orientation link

Moradin: /* Prevention */

2024-07-06T13:15:01Z

Prevention

LethosorBot: Tagging v50 page (523/4888)

2022-12-21T00:21:41Z

Tagging v50 page (523/4888)

LethosorBot: LethosorBot moved page DF2014:Breeding to Breeding: Migrating v50 page (353/4618) (content)

2022-12-20T03:11:18Z

LethosorBot moved page DF2014:Breeding to Breeding: Migrating v50 page (353/4618) (content)

68.56.148.200: /* Bugs */ Removed fixed bug

2021-12-30T00:47:05Z

Bugs: Removed fixed bug

213.55.244.109: /* Breeding Mechanics */

2021-02-03T14:21:04Z

Breeding Mechanics

Fleeting Frames: Dwarves → your citizens; added "non-pet fully-" qualifier to "sentient" in off-map breeding

2020-09-16T22:01:59Z

Dwarves → your citizens; added "non-pet fully-" qualifier to "sentient" in off-map breeding

Fleeting Frames: Categories, bugs, spacing, some rewording.

2020-09-16T21:57:49Z

Categories, bugs, spacing, some rewording.

Severedicks at 15:07, 16 December 2019

2019-12-16T15:07:41Z

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-{{migrated article}}
+{{Quality|Fine}}
-{{Quality|Unrated}}
+{{av}}<onlyinclude>
-{{av}}{{catbox}}<onlyinclude>
+[[File:breeding_preview.png|right]]'''{{catlink|Breeding}}''' creatures are those which can produce offspring in fortress mode. Conversely, '''{{catlink|Non-Breeding|non-breeding}}''' creatures cannot reproduce in fortress mode, even though they presumably do so during worldgen. Breeding creatures are significantly more useful as stock for a [[meat industry]] than their non-breeding counterparts.
 </onlyinclude>
 ==Breeding Mechanics==
 To be able to breed, a creature must have separate {{token|MALE|c}} and {{token|FEMALE|c}} castes. Genderless and one-gendered creatures are incapable of breeding. In addition, intelligent creatures must be married or otherwise "marriage-compatible", even if they do not actually marry ingame.
+{{catbox}}
 When a [[orientation|compatible]] male and an uncaged female of the same species are on adjacent tiles, they'll breed when idle.
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 ===Limits on breeding===
 Excluding your fortress citizens, there is a per-creature-type population cap of 50, past which breeding animals will not get pregnant; existing pregnancies will mature to term. Furthermore, animals will not reproduce if children make up more than 75% of their population - for creatures which take longer than a year to grow up (such as elephants, which take 10 years), this can slow breeding significantly. Once the population drops below these caps, the creatures will begin breeding again.

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 To be able to breed, a creature must have separate {{token|MALE|c}} and {{token|FEMALE|c}} castes. Genderless and one-gendered creatures are incapable of breeding. In addition, intelligent creatures must be married or otherwise "marriage-compatible", even if they do not actually marry ingame.
-When a compatible male and an uncaged female of the same species are on adjacent tiles, they'll breed when idle.
+When a [[orientation|compatible]] male and an uncaged female of the same species are on adjacent tiles, they'll breed when idle.
 ===Prevention===

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 ===Prevention===
-Breeding can be prevented by [[gelding]] males, separating males and females, caging females, or while (non-aquatic?) creatures are [[swimming]]. Caged males are still capable of breeding, assuming the female can approach the cage. Pregnant non-egglaying females can give birth in cages, but not get pregnant again
+Breeding can be prevented by [[gelding]] males, separating males and females, caging females, or while (non-aquatic?) creatures are [[swimming]]. Caged males are still capable of breeding, assuming the female can approach the cage. Pregnant non-egglaying females can give birth in cages, but not get pregnant again unless released.
 ===Limits on breeding===

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-{{Quality|Fine}}
+{{migrated article}}
 {{av}}{{catbox}}<onlyinclude>
 '''{{catlink|Breeding}}''' creatures are those which can produce offspring in fortress mode. Conversely, '''{{catlink|Non-Breeding|non-breeding}}''' creatures cannot reproduce in fortress mode, even though they presumably do so during worldgen. Breeding creatures are significantly more useful as stock for a [[meat industry]] than their non-breeding counterparts.

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 ==Bugs==
 * It is intended for attributes to be inheritable <sup>[https://www.bay12games.com/media/df_talk_8_transcript.html DF Talk #8 (2010)]</sup>, but [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=176850.msg8164148#msg8164148 latest testing] suggests there is minimal impact on either strength or body size.
 {{Category|Creature attributes}}
 [[ru:Breeding]]

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 ==Breeding Mechanics==
-To be able to breed, a creature must have separate {{token|MALE|c}} and {{token|FEMALE|c}} castes. Genderless and one-gendered creatures are incapable of breeding.
+To be able to breed, a creature must have separate {{token|MALE|c}} and {{token|FEMALE|c}} castes. Genderless and one-gendered creatures are incapable of breeding. In addition, intelligent creatures must be married or otherwise "marriage-compatible", even if they do not actually marry ingame.
 When a compatible male and an uncaged female of the same species are on adjacent tiles, they'll breed when idle.
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 . Too many children - if more than 75% of that animal's population is juvenile, they will stop breeding until the young ones grow up.
 . They're not interested - the animals in your "breeding pairs" are homosexual or otherwise uninterested in reproducing, which is the case for 5% of all animals.
 ==Off-map breeding==

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 Excluding your fortress citizens, there is a per-creature-type population cap of 50, past which breeding animals will not get pregnant; existing pregnancies will mature to term. Furthermore, animals will not reproduce if children make up more than 75% of their population - for creatures which take longer than a year to grow up (such as elephants, which take 10 years), this can slow breeding significantly. Once the population drops below these caps, the creatures will begin breeding again.
-All non-sentient animals have a gestation period of 6 months (Dwarves are 9 months), but there are several factors that can prevent them from breeding:
+All non-sentient animals have a gestation period of 6 months (your citizens are 9 months), but there are several factors that can prevent them from breeding:
 . Too many adults - if you have more than 50 per species, they will stop breeding.
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 [[Invader]]s normally are incapable of breeding, but they have been observed to arrive on the map pregnant. Additionally, invaders (whether soldiers or mounts) can become pregnant and breed while on the map if they possess the {{token|PET|c}} or {{token|PET_EXOTIC|c}} tokens (and a {{token|PET_VALUE|c}}), but their parents will immediately attack their offspring unless they are separated from each other (such as via [[Trap#Cage_Trap|cage traps]]).
-As non-historical sentient figures cannot breed, visitors are more often able to breed than invaders, though this is countered by their relatively common separation from loved ones by distance or death.
+As non-historical non-pet fully-sentient figures cannot breed, visitors are more often able to breed than invaders, though this is countered by their relatively common separation from loved ones by distance or death.
 ==Bugs==