This is a couple of weeks old but I would say @ the custom animals, the snailing animals seem to take an EXTREMELY long time to grow; I did only embark with scruffers and naked mole hounds, but both of them never seemed to age up in the time playing that fort. I'm pretty sure I played it for 5-7 years. :Ia I might have missed a hound but I *know* I only had my initial scruffer adults.

If intentional then the lack of a decently growing wool-and-meat animal (like a sheep) or non-grazing meat-and-milk animal (like a pig) is noted. Not that slow growing animals are bad, but comparably alpacas grow in a year and my scruffers were -definitely- not growing that quickly. I'm guessing it's because of scruffers being based on ralthers, but as a domesticated species it would make sense for them to be slightly smaller and faster growing - like domestic pigs vs a boar. Many forts don't last 10+ years, so if they share that age, that makes them effectively much less useful as a domestic embark species.

Originally posted by polliwoggi:

This is a couple of weeks old but I would say @ the custom animals, the snailing animals seem to take an EXTREMELY long time to grow; I did only embark with scruffers and naked mole hounds, but both of them never seemed to age up in the time playing that fort. I'm pretty sure I played it for 5-7 years. :Ia I might have missed a hound but I *know* I only had my initial scruffer adults.

If intentional then the lack of a decently growing wool-and-meat animal (like a sheep) or non-grazing meat-and-milk animal (like a pig) is noted. Not that slow growing animals are bad, but comparably alpacas grow in a year and my scruffers were -definitely- not growing that quickly. I'm guessing it's because of scruffers being based on ralthers, but as a domesticated species it would make sense for them to be slightly smaller and faster growing - like domestic pigs vs a boar. Many forts don't last 10+ years, so if they share that age, that makes them effectively much less useful as a domestic embark species.

This is a good point. I kept the growth times to match the animals they descend from, but I assumed they would reflect normal growth periods. They reached adulthood at 5 years when I expected and intended them to reach it at 2 or 3 like other domestic animals. I am going to adjust their ages. They grow to be much bigger than standard animals, so they will reach adulthood at 3.

Also suckernubs will live longer than 2-3 years lmao. That one I actually intended to change, it's supposed to be 6-12.