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40d:Purring maggot

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Purring maggot
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· Exotic pet · Extract · Hateable · Milkable

Pet value 0
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Spring Summer Autumn Winter
This article is about an older version of DF.

The purring maggot is currently the only creature that can be Template:Led. You cannot embark with purring maggots. Dwarven Template:L (made from Template:L, which is milked from purring maggots) is currently the most valuable food (100 per cheese) with the exception of butchered Template:Ls.

Purring maggots can be caught in Template:L with Template:L or Template:L for bait. They aren't visible before they are caught. The only way to make sure whether a Template:L contains them or not is by just trying to catch some.

If you find a map with purring maggots and wish to milk them, be sure to keep them in a fairly remote area of your fortress - while some dwarves detest purring maggots, any nearby dwarf will claim one as a meal if he happens to get hungry. Should this happen, Template:Lding it after it has been picked up will cause the dwarf to drop it on the floor, where it will wander around. To recapture a dropped maggot, ensure that an animal trap is available nearby (and that all other animal traps have been forbidden), then issue a "Capture Live Animal" task at a Template:L - a Template:L should come along, pick up the animal trap, and capture the nearest vermin (which, hopefully, will be the purring maggot).

Each maggot can only be milked about once per month[Verify]. Tamed maggots cannot be milked.

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