![]() Raising elephants as livestock can also be useful - even though they take 10 years to grow to adulthood, elephant calves can still be butchered (immediately after birth, no less) to yield 11 meat/bones apiece, slightly more than adult cows and horses (which themselves need to be at least 1 year old), and their byproducts are also 3 times as valuable. Elephants produce a stack of 16 bones when butchered, and these can be used to make a stack of 80 bone bolts, meaning your marksdwarves will have plenty of shots before needing to gather more ammo. ![]() Named elephants can also be traded to the elves, provided they're not in a wooden cage. Traders will pay a LOT for even an untamed elephant, so they make good trade items. Elephants also make great pets - set some cage traps up and capture a few, tame them (making sure that they don't have a name already), and then use them for fortress defense (or food). Marksdwarves receive experience every time they fire a bolt, usually bumping their marksdwarf skill a few levels before they manage to score a kill. There's not really any benefits for slaying them in Adventure mode (besides experience).ĭespite all their dangers, having swarms of wild elephants outside your fortress can be a good thing. It's best that you fight them only when you're very experienced. Since you have full control of your character in Adventure mode, you can actually decide on how you deal with the beast. They'll just run or ignore you whenever you're around, unless they're provoked or undead. If you notice a named elephant has been tamed, it is wise to butcher it immediately- the only real defense against this threat.Įlephants in Adventure mode aren't really much of a threat. Such demonic brutes can be terrifying to unleash within your fortress. Elephants maintain their previous behaviors- they run from or ignore threats unless attacked.Įlephants who have earned a name by killing a named creature before being tamed are not truly tamed dwarves will not fear them, which makes killing all the easier. ![]() Undead elephants have been known to survive eight weapon traps made from various trap components.Įlephants can be tamed but cannot be trained - the only "war animals" available in the game are dogs. They can brave a couple of weapon traps, and even survive to the second or third stone-fall trap. The only trap that will catch an elephant, 100% time guaranteed, is the cage trap. Prevention is the word: The best defense is a long line of traps. If it's already happening, lock your doors and pray. If the ensuing carnage produces corpses, you will have the additional problem of dwarves beelining to strip the bodies of all possessions. In either case, the elephants may decide to put the fear of God into your dwarves and make for your fort's entrance, either chasing a horribly maimed hunter or just stampeding in on their own.
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