40d Talk:Elephant

initial postings

I changed the line about cave features, but left the rest alone. Are there any other parts that are no longer accurate in this version?--BahamutZERO 15:07, 29 October 2007 (EDT)

Someone told me that Toady mentioned he had toned down the elephant aggressivness in one of his daily dev posts, does anyone know anything more about that? I don't want to end up having put up a completely out-of-date article. :P --BahamutZERO 15:58, 29 October 2007 (EDT)

Elephants seem totally non-agressive now, I don't know if they even defend themselves when attacked. I had a dwarven caravan guard slaughter 3 of them without a single wound, all the elephants did was run even when the dwarf was right next to them. Of course, the dwarf guards have steel instead of iron now, but still, I think elephants are no longer a real threat. --BurnedToast 02:55, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

Then I think Unicorns may have taken their place; in a way they're even worse because they went about slaughtering a bunch of elves without any provocation at all. --BDR 14:07, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

Oh, the irony of that, eh? --Xotes 14:21, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

Yep, I didn't fail to notice the new analogy; Elephants:Dwarves::Unicorns:Elves. :D --BDR 15:23, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

I deleted most of the old information from the page, yes it was funny but after sending a raw peasant to hunt elephants with an axe and having him bring back multiple elephant corpses I decided it was time to change it. Please DO rewrite it and make it better, please DO NOT just revert the old one. --BurnedToast 10:14, 18 November 2007 (EST)

I think this article needs to be preserved for its humor, if nothing else. Can we move it to a 'fun stuff' category of articles?

There's always the archives. -- Zaratustra 15:22, 29 November 2007 (EST)

Elephants as trade items

Having a legendary stone carver, I just traded a bunch of stone junk for a caged elephant. Any ideas what to do with it? Any chance I can get a breeding pair by trading more *stone junk* ?GarrieIrons 05:41, 6 August 2008 (EDT)

In Real Life?

Do we really need this section. There's a whole other wiki that does that, after all... --Squirrelloid 09:42, 7 January 2009 (EST)

Ok, I'm removing it. --Squirrelloid 10:35, 8 January 2009 (EST)

Probably a good call. It must have been using mind-control beams on me or something, because for some reason I couldn't decide if it should stay or not...--Quil 17:27, 8 January 2009 (EST)

It was left over from the Archive version, where we worried our negative outlook on The Blood-Soaked Tusked Fiend might affect our real-world attitudes and treatment of elephants. --Jellyfishgreen 06:42, 9 January 2009 (EST)

Animal rivalry?

Come to think of it, Toady really did tone down their aggressiveness, but some other odd stuff is happening, possibly as a result. Recently, I had a herd of elephants on the map, which, naturally, garnered an Oh dear god no from me; however, the elephants just wandered by my dwarves, at which point a fire imp popped out of the nearby volcano and lobbed a fireball at one.

In all honesty, I found this absolutely hilarious, until it went after one of my dwarves and set the entire forest on fire. The dwarf died a painful death and I withdrew the rest of them while it wandered around, eventually returning to the volcano. (Or so I assume.)

I still haven't found the little bugger. ~ Midna 04:00, 1 February 2009 (EST)

Domestication

Anyone got any ideas how long it takes to start breeding elephants? I do get that they aren't worth keeping forever due to the time it takes to reach maturity, but even if I can get a calf every couple of years they are worth keeping in a pit outside my butchers shop! I have a breeding pair plus a spare bull (which I am keeping till my hunter stops catching wild ones) Garrie 13:37, 21 July 2009 (UTC)