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postal83

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Rat catcher
« on: April 11, 2012, 07:56:33 am »
So I captured a few rats via the butcher's workshop, made an  animal stockpile, now the traps with the rats are in there but I can't figure out how to get the rats out have them slaughtered?
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Re: Rat catcher
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2012, 07:57:44 am »
AFAIK, you can't butcher pest.
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Re: Rat catcher
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2012, 07:59:35 am »
A lot of vermin is simply useless, so why are dwarfs capturing them?
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Re: Rat catcher
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2012, 08:07:05 am »
Ah ok.  Well, via the butchers workshop, i set to capture an animal, and all they managed to capture were rats.  I have plenty of cats to take care of vermin though..

Is there a way I can get the rats out of the cages that are in my animal stockpile so I can use the traps again?
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Re: Rat catcher
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2012, 08:07:22 am »
You can use them as pets.
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Re: Rat catcher
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2012, 08:18:26 am »
can you extract stuff from them?
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Re: Rat catcher
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2012, 08:35:30 am »
Build the cages, link them up to a lever and release the rats.
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Re: Rat catcher
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2012, 08:40:12 am »
Quote from: Garath on April 11, 2012, 08:18:26 am
can you extract stuff from them?

Not the rats :|

Quote from: 78325 on April 11, 2012, 08:35:30 am
Build the cages, link them up to a lever and release the rats.

This, oh so much. Cats optional. You don't want the vermin teleporting everywhere :S
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« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2012, 08:44:44 am »
Quote from: simonthedwarf on April 11, 2012, 07:59:35 am
A lot of vermin is simply useless, so why are dwarfs capturing them?

Because they're nasty vermin, giving some dwarfs unhappy thoughts and IIRC but I don't know how they also muck up food stores. Not noticeably though.

I never bothered with animal traps, just get a cat.
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Re: Rat catcher
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2012, 08:56:28 am »
If you set them for adoption, dwarves will put them on their heads and continue on their way. I suppose this gives some happy thoughts, but I just started thinking whether they'd also offer protection.

Apparently dwarves who hate certain animals can also hate seeing them on other dwarves, so pet rats are a bit risky that way.
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Re: Rat catcher
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2012, 09:00:10 am »
Quote from: AWdeV on April 11, 2012, 08:44:44 am
Because they're nasty vermin, giving some dwarfs unhappy thoughts and IIRC but I don't know how they also muck up food stores. Not noticeably though.

If you don't have thick barrels or pots, they'll burrow through and rot your food. Can cause troubles, but if you have a proper stockpile you can function without cats.
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