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Sperm whale
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Urist likes sperm whales for their teeth. | |
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Portrait | |
No portrait | |
Biome | |
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Variations | |
Attributes | |
Cannot be tamed | |
Size | |
Birth: | 500,000 cm3 |
Mid: | 12,500,000 cm3 |
Max: | 25,000,000 cm3
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Age | |
Adult at: | 1 |
Max age: | 70-80 |
Butchering returns | |
Food items | |
Meat | 660-940 |
Fat | 140-220 |
Brain | 55-85 |
Heart | 25-45 |
Lungs | 110-160 |
Intestines | 170-250 |
Liver | 55-85 |
Kidneys | 55-85 |
Tripe | 55-85 |
Sweetbread | 26-42 |
Eyes | 2 |
Spleen | 26-42 |
Raw materials | |
Bones | 160-240 |
Skull | 1 |
Skin | Raw hide |
v50.14 · v0.47.05 This article is about the current version of DF.Note that some content may still need to be updated. |
- A giant marine mammal with a toothy jaw.
The sperm whale is the largest "normal" creature in the game, as in one that you actually see in the real world, and produces A LOT of products when butchered. It can be captured with a fish-catching chamber and then air-drowned; out of the water a sperm whale will turn into a corpse relatively quickly. The products of an average sperm whale can feed an entire fortress of dwarves (all 200 of them) for just over a year, making it an enormous boon if you manage to catch one, providing an enormous food surplus and months of work for your bone carvers. Occasionally sperm whales will beach themselves on the shoreline, leaving a corpse ready for butchering by lucky dwarves.
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The reason why beached whales drown, in defiance of their mammalian nature, is not sufficiently established. It is possible that the stress of the situation causes a spontaneous and fatal swelling of the tissue surrounding the blowhole. Alternatively, they may be committing suicide, as dolphins have been observed to do, to avoid the more horrible death by dehydration, being crushed by their own weight, or drowning in the returning flood. Rumors that the whales, being very proud creatures, hold their breath in protest, and may even be talked out of their stubbornness by a legendary flatterer and animal trainer are baseless lies, however.
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Sperm whales were sponsored by the generous contributions of the Bay 12 community.
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[CREATURE:SPERM_WHALE]
[DESCRIPTION:A giant marine mammal with a toothy jaw.]
[NAME:sperm whale:sperm whales:sperm whale]
[CASTE_NAME:sperm whale:sperm whales:sperm whale]
[CHILD:1][GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:sperm whale calf:sperm whale calves]
[CREATURE_TILE:'W'][COLOR:7:0:0]
[CREATURE_CLASS:MAMMAL]
[LARGE_ROAMING]
[AQUATIC][UNDERSWIM][IMMOBILE_LAND][BEACH_FREQUENCY:10]
[BENIGN][MEANDERER][NATURAL]
[PETVALUE:1000]
[BIOME:ANY_OCEAN]
[POPULATION_NUMBER:15:30]
[CLUSTER_NUMBER:1:1]
[PREFSTRING:teeth]
[PREFSTRING:vengeful nature]
[CARNIVORE]
[BODY:BASIC_2PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD_NECK:SIDE_FLIPPERS:TAIL:2EYES:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:MOUTH:GENERIC_TEETH:RIBCAGE]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_MATERIALS]
[REMOVE_MATERIAL:HAIR]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
[REMOVE_TISSUE:HAIR]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:VERTEBRATE_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE:BONE:CARTILAGE]
[SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER:HEART:BY_CATEGORY:HEART]
[PLUS_TISSUE_LAYER:SKIN:BY_CATEGORY:THROAT]
[TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_HEAD_POSITIONS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:HUMANOID_RIBCAGE_POSITIONS]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SINEW:SINEW_TEMPLATE]
[TENDONS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
[LIGAMENTS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
[HAS_NERVES]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD:LIQUID]
[CREATURE_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
[GETS_WOUND_INFECTIONS]
[GETS_INFECTIONS_FROM_ROT]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:PUS:PUS_TEMPLATE]
[PUS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:PUS:LIQUID]
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:500000]
[BODY_SIZE:4:0:12500000]
[BODY_SIZE:10:0:25000000]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[MAXAGE:70:80]
[ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:BY_CATEGORY:TOOTH]
[ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
[ATTACK_VERB:bite:bites]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:3:3]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH]
[ATTACK:SLAP:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:TAIL]
[ATTACK_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:slap:slaps]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:4:4]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
[ATTACK_FLAG_BAD_MULTIATTACK]
[ALL_ACTIVE]
[NO_DRINK]
[HOMEOTHERM:10067]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_SWIMMING_GAITS:900:711:521:293:1900:2900] 30 kph
[SWIMS_INNATE]
[CANNOT_JUMP]
[MUNDANE]
[CASTE:FEMALE]
[FEMALE]
[CASTE:MALE]
[MALE]
[SELECT_CASTE:ALL]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SKIN]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:GRAY:100:WHITE:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:skin:SINGULAR]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE:EYE]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BLACK:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL] |