How too breed ant man?

[seal cub clubbing club]

Hi, im honestly not sure what too do with them; sell them, skin them, indoctrenate them into dwarf culture, have them fight too the death in an arena, have them kill megabeasts for me.

but i do know that i want more of them.

back in classic, if you put some troglodytes in a cage near eachother they would.not.stop.breeding. but ive had no luck with this method yet.

i dont want them too die from old age, what should i do?

[Baalthoros]

I THINK any sentient without the pet token has to marry to produce offspring now. I could be very wrong about this though. From your post i'm guessing you caged them, and they did not show up at a tavern and petition for residence. Just use them as labyrinth residents and pit them against others you capture.

If they are residents/citizens then you have to wait until they get married to another of their species to reproduce.

[Zombie Teddy Bear]

Puting things in cages now prevents breeding. I remember the days when you could just cage your dogs and they would endlessly give birth and cage the puppies all at the same time, now i have to keep them in a pen together.

[seal cub clubbing club]

intresting! ill try a pen with some rope posts

[Exbeer]

Originally posted by ᶦˢʳᵃᵉˡ:

intresting! ill try a pen with some rope posts

but how do you feed them ? i am sure you feed them in cadges , but do they get fed in ropes ? it woude be interesting if having them close on ropes woude have an impact hehe but if not fed ?

[Exbeer]

also i do want to get my hands on some of them plump helmet people hehe

[Zombie Teddy Bear]

Originally posted by ᶦˢʳᵃᵉˡ:

intresting! ill try a pen with some rope posts

If the animals need to graze you can just make a large pen outside with little issues or wall them off for their saftey.
If the animals dont need to graze you can just dig out a small room and add a door to keep them together and contained.

[Zombie Teddy Bear]

Originally posted by Exbeer:

Originally posted by ᶦˢʳᵃᵉˡ:

intresting! ill try a pen with some rope posts

but how do you feed them ? i am sure you feed them in cadges , but do they get fed in ropes ? it woude be interesting if having them close on ropes woude have an impact hehe but if not fed ?

If the animal need food and is a cage i think someone has to give them food which could be a problem if not enough people have that job available to them. Its always easier to pen them on the surface until you can comfortably protect them in the cavern layers.

[seal cub clubbing club]

zombie, ant people arent animals, they cant be trained, they dont need food.

they are people, but im trying too make them property. dont think its as easy as letting them lose on a grassy field, they will promply murder the nearest dwarf.

!!science!! though; i put a bunch of them in a pen, male workers, female workers and queens, and tied them too rope posts soo they could interact with eachother, they still would NOT breed.

another fun fact: they have their own civilization in the world screen, and start with 3 metal shields and a metal spear, ranging from copper too steel.

luckily there have been plenty of attacks, so i was able too capture about a 100 or so. im planing on abandoning the fortress and leaving it all too them. kicking starting this brand new civ.

but yea, no taming, mo breeding, no petitions. just savagery and barbarism. their FUN does not disapoint :)