Good animals to tame?

[edmek55555]

I have played DF for a while but never really tried taming anything and there seems to be conflicting info on what is and isn’t tamable. Any suggestions for good creatures to take relatively easily (ie no dragons for my first tame)

[Old Sinh]

any1 bear

[edmek55555]

Thanks for the replies, I will definitely look out for both of those to give them a whirl. I really want to get a giant olm and cave dragon but I have a feeling that might be too much fun for me to handle

[Tarithel]

Whales obviously...

[Admiral Obvious]

Originally posted by Tarithel:

Whales obviously...

Oh, yes...

Most animals are tameable, in the case of particularly dangerous animals, you'll need to maintain it until the dwarves get familiar with the animals, but any babies the animal has while tamed are immediately tamed for free.

I remember a long time ago I caged and trained a female dragon... that was !FUN!

[Strifeboy]

How to train animals?

[Admiral Obvious]

Originally posted by Strifeboy:

How to train animals?

It depends on the animal and how your procured it.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Animal_trainer

I'd start there. Be careful though the DF wiki is quite expensive, and can spoil a great deal of things.

[Gerustroncio]

I love training some war gorillas and then watching them go to town on the goblins, hard to get though.

But really the animals you'll be able to tame is all about where you embark in, you'll get what you get, the only other possibility is getting some different ones in elven trade caravans.

I say try capturing and taming whatever it is you find near your fort :P

I once decided to capture a bunch of giant flying squirrels (because they were everywhere), at first I would just slaughter them for meat, bones and leather, but then I tamed some and started breeding them, and one time just for funsies I released a bunch of goblin prisoners in their enclosure (with all their weapons and armor stripped of course) and the squirrels did pretty good damage.

I mean heck the wiki says they're like 7 foot in size, I guess it makes sense they'll do some damage.

Oh and speaking of the wiki, you can always check it so see if wheter an animal is tamable or not.

[Gahluisse]

I do like to train elephants and rhinos from memory (havent played in a long time) but if I trap something good in caverns i'd take that too.

I almost always used to settle in various type of tropical biomes with high level wildlife threat for the fun stuff you can get there.

[MoonClipper]

On the note of training, you can construct the cage that your desired trained animal is in and set it as a animal training zone and it's perfectly safe to train a dragon.

Until you assign it to a pasture. Then THAT is when the fun really begins.