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Animal caretaker
v50.12 · v0.47.05 This article is about the current version of DF.Note that some content may still need to be updated. |
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| Profession | Ranger | |
| Job Title | Animal Caretaker | |
| Labor | Animal care | |
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 | This feature has one or more outstanding bugs. |
Animal caretaking should be the skill used by dwarves to treat any injured pet assigned to them (as long as they have the labor enabled), as well as feeding any hungry/thirsty animals in cages and on chains (by default, only grazers).
Currently, however, the first part does nothing for animals (see below), but dwarves can inexplicably gain experience in it during worldgen, leading to animal caretakers appearing in migrant waves. The second part, feeding caged/chained grazers, grants no experience, but can satisfy "stay occupied" and "help somebody" needs.
Veterinary medicine is an expected feature that has not yet been implemented into the game, so animal caretaking does not actually serve healthcare purpose as of yet.Bug:349 Wounded animals will instead heal on their own - or not at all. This makes even your greatest animal caretakers equivalent to peasants. Animal caretaking is not planned to be implemented in the near future, and as such, animal caretakers who arrive in migrant waves should be immediately repurposed into other, actually functional professions.
While non-functional in the vanilla game, the utility DFHack can be used to make animal caretaking work through the dwarfvet enable command; when the plugin is active, injured pets will rest in any activity zone marked as both a hospital and a training zone, where dwarves will then provide them with the necessary care. The command dwarfvet disable can be used to disable the plugin if necessary.
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