It all needs a bit of work, but that is true of hunting in general." - Toady One, long agoīecause of their training, war dogs do more damage in combat than untrained dogs.Īgainst heavily armored and armed opponents, dogs (war or hunting) can die quite easily, but that doesn't mean they are useless. A hunting animal notices creatures from farther away, although this isn't exactly effective if it decides to target what its owner is targeting. "A hunting animal will target the creature its owner is targeting if the owner is hunting, and it will be sneaking without a movement penalty if it is reasonably close to its hunting owner. Note: Using a civilian alert to keep civilians away from fighting affects war dogs as well, stopping them from following your soldiers into combat. War dogs can still be slaughtered for food, even if they have sustained serious injuries. It's also a good idea if you decide to train the owner in a danger room. Assigned dogs can be pastured this is another option for keeping them away from danger if you have some advance warning. If you use one or two dedicated animal trainers to train dogs, you may notice they will be followed by a large pack of them, along with their puppies. Unassigned war dogs and hunting dogs follow the dwarf who trained them, but can still be caged. A workaround for this is to train the dog with the dwarf you want the dog to follow. Once a dog is assigned to a dwarf, it cannot be unassigned nor placed in a cage. You can assign a war dog or hunting dog to a dwarf via his preferences menu ( v, select dwarf, p, a) to help him in combat. (Ideally, the dogs should be out of view of the trap corridor to prevent injury from ranged weapons.) Hunting dogs may be particularly well-suited to guard duty because of their improved observer skills.
The traps will prevent aggressive invaders from harming the dogs, while the dogs prevent thieves from sneaking past the traps into the base. Guard dogs work particularly well when placed behind a hall of traps or other siege-breaking devices.
You can assign dogs to restraints to act as guard dogs. stockpiles nearby, and haulers.Dogs left to their own devices will wander around, spending most of their time in meeting areas, and attacking any hostiles they see.Īs with any friendly creature, dogs can spot ambushers and thieves. Make sure you have fat/animal hide/bone/etc. The main trick for both of them is that its only a part-time job unless you have lots of hunters/farms/fishers, but if your non-dedicated dwarf gets busy doing something else, you might end up with rotten fish and meat.Īlso, the butchery gets easily cluttered, slowing progress. Any hunting kills will also be brought back to the butcher's block(by the hunter)and create an automatic single butchery task. A butcher will then take the animal to the butcher's block, and create a bloody mess of bone, fat and meat. Once the butchery is up and running, you can tag specific animals as Ready for Slaughter in your Z -> Animals menu. Set it to repeat, and every so often check on it to make sure they haven't cancelled the job when they ran out of stock.īutchery -> This one's a little more automatic. Once you have fish being caught, go to the fishery and create a Fish Cleaning job(might be under a similar name).
Create a stockpile for fresh fish near the Fishery. Have also at least one(preferably different) dwarf with the fish cleaning labor enabled. Ditto for the butchers with the Butchery labor.įishery -> Have at least one dwarf with the Fishing labor enabled. To set up a fishery you'll need a dwarf with the Fish Cleaning labor enabled.
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