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[Cyroth]

A suggestion to give us a choice in what our civs have as domesticated animals.

Remove the [Common_Domestic] tag from creatures, and instead make it an entity tag that consists of the following: [DOMESTIC:"CREATURE":"RARITY"], where "RARITY" is either FORCED, COMMON, UNCOMMON or RARE and "CREATURE" is the unique creature ID.

For example the entry for the Dwarf entity would have added:

...
[DOMESTIC:CAT:FORCED]
[DOMESTIC:HORSE:FORCED]
[DOMESTIC:DOG:FORCED]
[DOMESTIC:ALPACA:COMMON]
[DOMESTIC:CAMEL_2_HUMP:RARE]
...

And Goblins would have, amongst others:

...
[DOMESTIC:TROLL:FORCED]
[DOMESTIC:BEAK_DOG:COMMON]
[DOMESTIC:WOLF_ICE:RARE]
...


That would allow us to have so much more direct control over how our modded civs turn out.

[FowlJ]

I like the idea of having more control over precisely which creatures are used by a civ, though if every creature had to be individually designated in this way it could result in some massive and cluttered entity files.

Perhaps the creatures themselves could be given a tag not unlike the [CREATURE_CLASS] used for syndromes, and have entities use creatures based on that.

So, common domestic animals would be, like, [PET_CLASS:COMMON_DOMESTIC], or whatever it would be called, and in the standard entity that's what would be used.

Or, maybe both methods could be acceptable - make some basic groups of creatures for a civ to use, then add a handful of special ones manually?

[10ebbor10]

Unfortunately, this could result in some strange things like civ's having domestic animals that don't even live anywhere in their nearby area.

[WarRoot]

Like rabbits in Australia?
Mind you they are widespread now but DF doesn't simulate animals escaping from their civ yet, so it's not unrealistic.

[DG]

Something like this would be good. I'd like to be able to give dwarves different domestic animals to humans.

[Jheral]

Unfortunately, this could result in some strange things like civ's having domestic animals that don't even live anywhere in their nearby area.

Could always add a biome qualifier. For example, [DOMESTIC:WOLF_ICE:TUNDRA:COMMON], where if your civ is present in the TUNDRA biome, it treats WOLF_ICE as COMMON. Otherwise it would ignore it.

[Knight Otu]

Suggestions like this have come up a few times, either in a dedicated thread, or as part of an attempt to create a megathread for tokens and raw changes. I wouldn't be surprised to see this happen eventually, and obviously I'd be all for it. Here's a probably incomplete list of similar threads:

Raws and Tokens: Megathread
Certain creatures should not be exotic for certain races
small domestic overhaul
Domestication tags
Random/set pets for cultures/civs

[Thuellai]

I'll toss my approval at this one - I'm always up for more tag expansion.