After landing a gelding blow on a goblin, I noticed, that unlike the previous versions. Incidentally, gelding can occur through combat as well-aimed attacks to the lower body, triggering the message 'a gelding strike' or 'the geldables have been torn away' for the same effect, though these occurrences do not contribute to the gelder skill. News: February 7, 2023: Dwarf Fortress 50.06 has been released. Geldable animals have under section of their RAWs.Įgg-laying animals are not geldable, neither are Giant cave spiders. Although the jobs will remain in the queue, with them suspended, the next-highest job will become active. The Geld Animal labor cannot be restricted through a workshop's profile the only workaround is to suspend the Geld Animal job in every farmer's workshop you don't want animals being gelded in. This leads to your farmer's workshops sitting idle, waiting for an animal to be led in and gelded, heedless of any other jobs that are now sitting idle queued behind a job that won't be happening any time soon. Note that a Geld Animal job will be added to every available farmer's workshop if the number of animals scheduled to be gelded equals or exceeds those jobs, regardless of the number of dwarves in your fort who have the labor enabled. A castrated male's gender will appear as x♂x rather than the usual ♂. Dwarves, ordinarily content to manage an overpopulation of cats by employing butchers, tanners, soapers, leatherworkers, bone carvers, and cooks, may suddenly find themselves appropriated by a cat who employs mind control waves in order to take the dwarf hostage. Slaves to Armok: God of Blood - Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress is part Construction and Management simulation and part Roguelike created by brothers Tarn Toady. A gelder will take this job and lead the animal to the workshop, at which point it is instantly castrated. go to the z ( Status) screen, then the animal status screen, select the animal and press x to flag (or un-flag) for gelding.Ī geld animal job will then be added to a farmer's workshop.go into view mode, place the cursor on the animal, go to the preferences page and press x to flag (or un-flag) the animal for gelding, or,.

A dwarf more skilled in gelding is less likely to be injured performing the job.Īnimals can be selected for gelding through the same menus used for butchery: This is useful to stop/prevent catsplosions, as the tomcats can no longer breed. Gelding allows the castration of male animals so they cannot produce offspring. Gelder is the skill associated with the geld labor.

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