
Do I need to get him a bow and arrows or something? Because I got a crossbow and also assigned two dogs to him (one of them by accident).īy the way, I'm a new player in the very unlikely case you couldn't tell. He just sits around in the dining hall all day. « Reply 1 on: August 23, 2013, 08:04:50 pm ». The place is a veritable nightmare fuel refinery. Everyone else is on a murderous rampage or on fire from burning puppy bodies. built them into an effective force that has overthrown a strong fortress. In the end, only one sane dwarf is left, who is wearing both adamantine chainmail and plate armour to protect him from the insanity. bandit vermin, a Magistria, a wild sorceress, even a dwarf.and they all. From here, you can mark any animals you want to butcher with the knife icon, and they will be taken to the Butcher’s and slaughtered automatically. But yes, Alpaccas (and all grass-eaters) can die of starvation make sure you're pasturing. To Butcher tamed animals, like those you’ll have on fields, you’ll need to open the Labor Menu, select the Creatures tab, and the pets/livestock option. And by superstitious, I mean, 'It's a quirk of the game, don't think too hard, please'. I got a dwarf's labour set to hunt only and he won't do anything. Mole rat man torsos on giant mole rat bodies. Dwarfs are superstitious, and will only butcher dead wild animals or tame animals that they slaughter themselves via the animals screen. I have no idea what could be causing this, a glitch, maybe?Īlso, I'm pretty sure starving my animals to make them die is not the best way to get meat and other stuff from them but it seems like the only way right now, because my dwarves also won't hunt. I even tried building a butcher's shop right next to the refuse pile, but nope. and I add the "Butcher an animal" task to the butcher's shop, and then I always get "Dwarf blah cancels Butcher an Animal: Needs butcherable unrotten nearby item" even though there's plenty of corpses littering the nearby refuse pile and they're not rotten. I have mountain goats I would like to trap and tame. I understand that Trappers build vermin traps to catch rats and such, and that 'Animal Traps' are not meant for (non-vermin) large animals.

So I want to make useful stuff out of their bones, meat, etc. 1 The DF wiki is maddeningly unclear on this. I had some water buffaloes and a yak calf hanging around my fortress and they died of thirst or hunger or something. For some reason, my dwarves won't butcher any dead animals.
