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v0.34:Animal trainer
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| Profession | Ranger | |
| Job Title | Animal Trainer | |
| Labor | Animal training | |
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| This article is about an older version of DF. |
Animal trainer is the skill associated with the animal training labor. An animal trainer works at an animal training zone, taming certain animals (with food), turning some tame animals into war or hunting animals and reinforcing tameness of animals captured in a cage trap and tamed later.
Training Tasks
Train a Hunting Animal
Requires: An uncaged tame animal with [TRAINABLE] or [TRAINABLE_HUNTING], an 'animal training' activity zone, and an animal trainer. Note that an animal that is in a pasture can only be trained if the zone is also in the same pasture.
Hunting animals can be assigned (v-select dwarf-p-e) to follow a hunter and assist in the hunting process. They are faster and more agile than a regular tamed animal, but not as strong as a war animal and cannot be unassigned.
Train a War Animal
Requires: An uncaged tame animal with [TRAINABLE] (or [TRAINABLE_WAR], although no such animals exist), an 'animal training' activity zone, and an animal trainer. Pastured animals can only be trained if the zone is located within their pasture.
A war animal is stronger than its untrained counterpart. War dogs make excellent companions when starting a fortress, when you can't spare many dwarves for fighting.
Like hunting animals, they can also be assigned to individual dwarves; combined with their strength, this makes them effective expendable bodyguards for any dwarf likely to see danger or who you feel is valuable enough to be worth protecting. Even if they fail to defeat an attacker, they can often buy their charge time to escape or for additional reinforcements to arrive.
Notes
Animal tab (z - Enter) has a list of all animals that are tame (and belong to your civilization) or are caged and can be tamed. Each animal on the list can be assigned a trainer, who will then tame (if needed) the animal, increase its tameness (if not born from tamed animals) or train it for war or hunting (if selected for hunting or training). Not all animals can be trained for war or hunting. Taming or increasing tameness requires an 'Animal Training' activity zone and food (edible plant for herbivores, meat for carnivores), which the trainer will bring to the animals. If a caged animal is fed a plant, seeds will stay in the cage, possibly making it unusable until all the seeds in it are dumped.
Certain animals are trivial to tame (domestic animals are well known by dwarven civilizations), some are rather easy to tame (animals from Caverns aren't alien to dwarves). Other creatures will require more attention, at least until your fortress manages to get familiar with them. Which animals are known and how well can be checked in the second sub-tab in "Animals" tab. Badly trained animals can revert to a wild state, resulting in dragons rampaging through the fortress.
Trainable war/hunting animals
The following creatures can be trained into war animals or hunting animals: If you trade for one of these animals, and they are already tame then they will remain tame when they become yours.
| Animal | Size | Notes |
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| Dog | 30,000 | † ♪ |
| Mandrill | 20,000 | ☼ † |
| Gorilla | 150,000 | ☼ † |
| Grizzly bear | 200,000 | ☼ |
| Polar bear | 400,000 | ☼ |
| Gigantic panda | 1,160,900 | ‼ |
| Elephant | 5,000,000 | ‼ |
| Rhinoceros | 3,000,000 | ‼ |
| Giant bat | 200,000 | ♪ Hunting only |
| Giant cave swallow | 200,000 | ♪ Hunting only |
| Giant eagle | 200,000 | ☼ ♪ |
| Cheetah | 50,000 | ♪ |
| Leopard | 50,000 | ♪ |
| Jaguar | 75,000 | ♪ |
| Lion | 200,000 | † ♪ |
| Tiger | 225,000 | † ♪ |
| Giant cheetah | 560,000 | ♪ |
| Giant leopard | 560,000 | ♪ |
| Giant jaguar | 750,000 | ♪ |
| Giant lion | 1,700,000 | ♪ |
| Giant tiger | 1,900,000 | ☼ ♪ |
| Roc | 20,000,000 | ☼ ♪ Megabeast |
| Dragon | 25,000,000 | ☼ Megabeast |
☼ - These animals are a good choice for your army.
† - These animals are good choices for protecting important civilians, attacking dangerous creatures so the dwarf can escape.
♪ - These animals are good companions for hunters and marksdwarves.
‼ - These animals are a poor choice for training due to their voracious appetites for grass.
Remember to keep a breeding pair out of harm's way around if you want more of a particular animal, in case the ones in service somehow die.
It is reported possible to capture and tame water creatures if special care is used.
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