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Harpy

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Harpy
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Urist likes harpies for their fearsome talons.
Portrait

No portrait

Biome

Attributes
Alignment: Evil

· Flying · Learns · Fanciful

Cannot be tamed 
Size
Max: 60,000 cm3

Age
Adult at: 1
Max age: Immortal
Cannot be butchered

Wikipedia article

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 monster in the shape of a woman with a bird's wings in place of arms and talons for feet.

Harpies are fanciful, intelligent, female-only creatures found in many evil biomes. They spawn in flocks of 2-3 mayhem-minded individuals who will terrorize pastured livestock and attack dwarves who get in their sights (or at least are supposed to, but currently don't Bug:10031). Harpies are as heavy as the average dwarf and can cause severe damage to civilians, though they should pose no real threat to a squad of marksdwarves and even less to a metal-clad melee squad, provided they can hit and reach them. Harpies are immortal and only die to violence and disease.

Harpies possess a pet value of 30, but lack the necessary tokens to be trainable (and even if modded to be trainable, the fact they are intelligent creatures will lead to strange behavior). Due to the aforementioned intelligence, dwarves will not butcher, eat or use products made from harpies, limiting their use to occupying space in your refuse stockpile, live training or putting them somewhere of your liking if you capture one in a cage trap.

Some dwarves like harpies for their feathery wings and their fearsome talons.

Admired for its fearsome talons.

Trivia

  • Initially, the premium version had a sprite for a child harpy, which like most other child graphics of the time, was just a smaller version of the adult sprite. The harpy child sprite was later removed from the game in 50.08 with the overhaul of child graphics. The player is unlikely to encounter a harpy child except by modding the creature or using DFHack to change the profession of one to a child. And if the player does encounter a child harpy, it will now appear invisible in the premium graphics due to it still defining a child graphic which now points to a blank tile. Although harpies do not have a baby form, a baby harpy will instead default to the adult sprite since no baby sprite is defined for them.

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