Is there any point catching Vermin ?

[LFA]

Do you guys know how this can be useful ? I was just wondering.
At the moment I'm thinking the best use case for it is if you find yourself in an environment where you have litteraly zero other source of food.

If there any point to taming vermin aside for satifying a dwarf's niche preference ? Anything really good to be extracted from some of them ? At the moment I haven't found anything

[Fel]

Some can be extracted but said extracts are rather useless anyway, so the answer is "no".

[The Minstrel Boy]

If you're lucky, you can capture purring maggots in the second and third cavern layers. They are the source of dwarven milk, and thus the valuable and presumably delicious dwarven cheese. Just make sure you don't tame them before trying to milk them.

[LFA]

Originally posted by The Minstrel Boy:

If you're lucky, you can capture purring maggots in the second and third cavern layers. They are the source of dwarven milk, and thus the valuable and presumably delicious dwarven cheese. Just make sure you don't tame them before trying to milk them.

Ok so at least there's that.
I was wondering something else while we're on that topic, is there any real reason to make cheese aside preference ?

[LazyDoja]

capturing vermin is a way to prevent them from eating your food supply if you have no cats, furthermore vermin can be pets for dwarfs that like them. And some can be extracted for itens. That said, its mostly all very useless, the impact on food supply is minimal and cats are more practical and more importantly, automated. Vermin are more of a niche thing. Only real reason to catch vermin is if you want to create a fish farm in an artificial pool. But catching underwater vermin is very trticky and time consuming.

[The Minstrel Boy]

Originally posted by LFA:

Ok so at least there's that.
I was wondering something else while we're on that topic, is there any real reason to make cheese aside preference ?

Milk isn't consumable straight by dwarves, and they won't drink it even if they're dying of thirst. Turning it into cheese is the quickest way to make it edible, and cheese is more valuable than milk too.

[Empath demon]

I believe making cheese fulfills the "craft an item" need, so it's nice to have some going. I didn't know about the purring maggots, that's neat.

[LFA]

Originally posted by Empath demon:

I believe making cheese fulfills the "craft an item" need, so it's nice to have some going. I didn't know about the purring maggots, that's neat.

Actually now that I think about it I think I've read that catching vermin may satisfy the need for excitement. Not sure though

[Great Lakes Wildebeest]

I think if your lucky you can catch cave spiders and put them in a room to make webs as well to bad you can't select what you catch because you could try for spiders and get hamsters instead

[Fel]

If you catch a cave spider, it is in a cage after that and you can't release it (vermins can't be taken out of their cages unless taken as a pet for example) so no extra silk sadly.

[Great Lakes Wildebeest]

I was fairly certain you could put them somewhere after taming them but I hardly deal in vermin as even as pets they live 2 years then die anyway

[AlP]

Maybe you are thinking of Giant Cave Spiders. You put them in a room with a live bait, and they produce GCS silk.