Just a idea

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Just a idea

Postby Kahim » Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:46 am

From Jorbs form post in the Announcements he mentioned this:

A dog is a symbol of authority and martial prowess. The taming of the wolf is a process that draws out over several days of living in close proximity to a wolf pack, having it accept you and ultimately subdue it.

Now this is a ways off but here is my thought. First the dog is prized thing so will their be males and females to where you may breed them?

And seeing how dogs today can eat a cup of food a day and leave would one peice of meat be enough for one ingame day?

But back to my question you should have dogs do speacial things. Aka right click the dog then right click a cow or sheep and it will say protect herd.
This will protect the cows or sheep from whatever comes there way be it a person whom comes onto your land to steal your animals. The dog would attack the person till either one dies(or possibly just knocked out) after that everytime you try to interact a message should pop up saying "You dare not touch this persons things for a while"(the time should be a irl day or so.)

The second thing a dog should be is just a variant of the first and that is to protect a claim or home
Clearly this is will have problems if the claim is huge and has rivers or cliffs. But seeing how this will protect the items people usally put in their house its of course just a option.

Lastly a dog should be able to follow you without a leash and be able to go hunting and or help you in a fight. A dog should be able to take on a fox by its self and two should be able to take on a boar. Id say 4 or 5 dogs would be needed to take on a bear this would just be fun and help with hunting.
To do this you would right clcik the dog or a hot key button for a dog head with attack and then you click the animal. The dogs being faster then humans would be able to catch up to the fleeing animal.

Dogs should be able to sit in the back of your boat or in between you and your passenger.


Finally we would need a place for them to sleep and a bowl or something to eat from.
So a dog bowl made from a single or few log blocks this should hold up to a few food units but not nearly close to that of a trough
Finally a dog house or dog bed the house would take boards and be simple like a simple doghouse today just made out of wood.
The dogbed should be a dried hide stuffed with straw and tied with string. The dog will lay there until selected on to follow you.


Agian just ideas but if your going to put in dogs at least do these things when you put in dogs.
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