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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', a lots of critters become a part of industry - mostly domesticable (if you can get them into cage trap and then train) - but not limited to these.
** [[Giant Spider|Giant cave spider]] is one of the most dangerous of all widespreead critters, but giant cave spider '''silk''' produces the second most valuable cloth in the game (and the most valuable cloth from a renewable resource). Clever players look for ways to corral one into an inescapable area where it can still see and spit silk at their Dwarves, domesticated animals, or captured prisoners. Randomly generated creatures also sometimes have web-slinging, but they are harder to catch and contain, and it's not especially valuable (though still comes free and indefinitely) - but it sometimes has "interesting" properties, such as being fire- or even magma- resistant: fireproof cloaks/hoods may prove useful if you're playing with fire (or fire creatures), and you can build minecart rollers in magma without wasting magma-safe metals on chains anymore, though there are more exotic uses.
** [[Never Smile At a Crocodile|Crocodiles]] (especially Cave crocodiles) may be dangerous, but are butcherable for valuable materials, make good guard beasts (or just [[Shark Pool|living deathtraps]]) and produce edible eggs. ''[[Explosive Breeder|Lots and lots of]]'' eggs.
** There have also been incidents in which players rigged up ways to ''farm'' other creatures for '''''harvesting'''''. This ranged from a case where an '''ocean''' was manipulated for the purposes of getting at the walruses that lived within, to a more gruesome case where mermaids were beached and killed for their bones, which, at the time, made for high-quality crafts for selling (though [[Obvious Rule Patch|Toady has since devalued them]], evidently disgusted by the prospect).
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