Hi all,
Been playing DF for a little while now and just had a few questions I was hopeing someone may be able to help out with.
Firstly when you catch a enemy in cage trap (thinking goblins here), I've read on the DF wiki that you can disarm them before releasing them though I can't figure out how to do ANYthing with them other then set build the cage somewhere.
Is this actually do-able or a error?
Also is the only way to release anything in a cage to build it them link it to lever/pp and trigger it as I can't figure out any other way.
While on the subject of cages when I've got a captured dwarf in a cage through merchants being captured they don't show up under the build cage list (Ie Goblins in cages show up as "Goblin Cage" as do elves and humans but dwarfs don't, I usually have to figure out what type of cage their in then build every cage of the same type next to each other in order to get the dwarf cage out! If that a bug or a feature to stop people release dwarfs from jail?
2nd! Any of my dwarves in jail are dying of hunger, I've seen in a threat about jails you can design them so foods in reach but is this the only way? Do dwarves not try to feed prisoners with the give food/water command of is that for resting dwaves only?
Eh..Question the 3rd! Want to build a spike/spear trap but am slightly put off my trhe sheer amount of work it looks to need, to build a 3 x 3 area of spear traps linked to a pressure point i would need to build 9 seperate spears traps with multiply spears per square, then like all 9 squares indevidually to a lever or plate using 18 mechs and taking years or is their anyway of specifing the trap covers a larger area similar to how farm plots or rooms are made? Im guessing it's just tough and I need to do it the long way but just wanted to check first :-)
Ill stop asking Questions for now and leave you guys in peace!
Thanks in advance