#Dwarf fortress dump from cage how to#
#Dwarf fortress dump from cage full#

It wouldn't help right now, but it keeps distracting me that your goblins are 'at the main gate' instead of 'in the stockpile.' Stockpiles are usually easier to manage, and captured prisoners count as 'animals. P.S.: Consider creating an animal stockpile. You're doing the former.īy the way, I edited my last paragraph in the last post. You can assign a creature to a pit or to another cage, and Rephikul is talking about the latter. If your cages are already next to the target, then it doesn't matter too much. If there is a long walk, then you have an opportunity for your military to attack the creature. When you assign a caged creature to something, a dwarf removes it from the cage and starts dragging the creature only, leaving behind the cage. However, this was primarily because I was mass-producing blocks out the wazoo under time constraints, which required a large chunk of the fort's dwarfpower. Rephikul is talking about things that happen once a goblin has been taken out of a cage. Last time I played dwarf fortress, I cleared out a 15x15 area, set the outer area as a stone stockpile, the next ring in was workshop space, and then the center was staircase space. If you 'built' the cages, then the cages at the main gate ARE the cages at the pit: your dwarves picked up the cages and moved them, complete with inhabitants. If it applies here, then it could be that some moron released the goblin and wandered off to let someone handle the pitting. I'm probably just off-target.īut in any case, there's also an annoying issue where dwarves treat any pitting job as a combination of two jobs: 'release large animal' and 'pit large animal.' I don't remember whether this applies to invaders or to actual animals, though. Of course, all my nervousness gets thrown out the window when you look at the strategy of deliberately dragging goblins a long way so the military can kill them. Which of the two escaped? The one stuffed in the southeast corner, with little room to maneuver? (In many games, diagonals cause problems.) If you're telling the dwarves to generically toss goblins somewhere in that entire pit area, you don't actually know where they want to stand to do it.

I make sure that any goblin to be tossed somewhere gets a unique 1-square 'pit zone' next to the cage, either east/west/north/south, to minimize the distance traveled. That sort of setup makes me nervous-and not because I know how Dwarf Fortress works, but because I have suspicions based on other games. Miners needs food and booze, so they are offten living in templorary dining rooms and dormitories (burrowed down).Hmm. Caged animals do not require food or nourishment, but this is only because animals do not require food. There is usualy food route too, who is actualy using two separated tracks to push food down, and one for pulling it up. You can capture creatures in a variety of ways, including animal traps for vermin, cage traps for wild animals and hostiles (like goblins), forcibly caging tame animals (see below), and you can also buy caged animals from traders. So one dwarf is pulling cart by whole mine level, then leaving load, then other one is packing his cart, and draging it to next stop.

#Dwarf fortress dump from cage how to#

I do not use one track for whole route, because i still doesn't know how to speed up my mine cards in safe way, without loosing FPS, like when i am using dwarven water reactor. Just courple of wagons on courple of levels. Stone is using similar, but more complicated system. When i am ready, i am locking doors to dumping zone and then opening hatch using laver and whole wood is droped into 1x1 stockpile, from which my main wood stockpile is feeding using 2 wheelbarrows (because i do not want use my whole hauling power for wood). Place an animal stock pile down anywhere, and have cages ready to be stockpiled. They will however place cages in traps or where I 'b'uild them.

#Dwarf fortress dump from cage full#

Then whole amount of wood is droped to hole and blocked by hatch. Dwarves seem to ignore that an animal stockpile has been made, and will not place cages, empty or full into the stock pile. Dwarws are getthering logs to pre-stockpile, then packing minecart (made of wood!), who is hauled to dump shaft. On ground i have usualy have system, who is droping my wood 20z down. I am always starting with block production, and i am making some tracks.