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[utunnels]

Well I slaughter a dog and its skin raised. So I built a trap and caught the skin zombie.
Will the skin escape the cage eventually? Or Can I use it as a zoo?

The cage reads: dog (♀) cage

[milo christiansen]

It should be safe for a zoo.

AFAIK only vermin can escape from cages.

[utunnels]

Well, that is fine. I wonder if my dorfs can treated it as a normal dog and throw parties around the cage.

Or maybe I can build a danger room and use the skin to train some soldiers.

[milo christiansen]

Well, that is fine. I wonder if my dorfs can treated it as a normal dog and throw parties around the cage.

AFAIK what kind of animal is in the cage does not matter except in two ways:
If the dwarf likes/dislikes that particular animal they will get happy/stressed by that (I don't know if the skin would count as a whole dog for this, but it probably does and dwarves can only dislike vermin so that is not a worry)
If the animal is valuable it raises the room value (which can make dwarves using it happier).

I have displayed zombie goblins and elves before with no problems

Or maybe I can build a danger room and use the skin to train some soldiers.

Not a good idea! Skins can be deadly, and sometimes very hard to kill.

[utunnels]

That is good. I'll save it for !!science!!

Not a good idea! Skins can be deadly, and sometimes very hard to kill.

OK then I need to get feather zombies. They don't kill.

[milo christiansen]

Trust me you do NOT want something hard to kill for training! Even if whatever it is is cannot hurt the dwarves, they will attack it until they die of thirst.

In 34.11 you could often just kick them out of the military and they would run away, but that will not work most of the time in 40.x as they will continue to steadfastly attack.

I recently lost a whole fortress to an alligator. My dwarves knocked it out and proceeded to beat on its head until they all died (at exactly the same instant) of thirst. Nothing I tried persuaded them to take a break.

[utunnels]

Well I can add a cage trap at the door, when they are tired, I just open the door and eventually the dummy should walk into the cage.

I recently lost a whole fortress to an alligator. My dwarves knocked it out and proceeded to beat on its head until they all died (at exactly the same instant) of thirst. Nothing I tried persuaded them to take a break.

You should have checked their skills, maybe they were already legendary fighters?

[milo christiansen]

Well I can add a cage trap at the door, when they are tired, I just open the door and eventually the dummy should walk into the cage.

IF you get lucky. If you get unlucky you could end up with a dead military. Just use something that is easy for a fully equipped dwarf to kill and give your trainees training weapons (training weapons cause LESS damage than no weapon at all). Keep a fully armed dwarf or two around to end training when desired.

You should have checked their skills, maybe they were already legendary fighters?

No, they were proficient at best, dwarves are simply very reluctant to break off a fight, particularly if they are "winning".

[utunnels]

Yeah, it seems they don't care about the content of the cages.
I caught the zombie dwarf and display her cage in the hall.

Then I check the thoguht of my dorfs: He was interested near a fine Cage.

[Akura]

Yeah, it seems they don't care about the content of the cages.
I caught the zombie dwarf and display her cage in the hall.

Then I check the thoguht of my dorfs: He was interested near a fine Cage.

At least he didn't feel arousal or pleasure near the cage.


I... I need brain bleach now.

[Nyxalinth]

Trust me you do NOT want something hard to kill for training! Even if whatever it is is cannot hurt the dwarves, they will attack it until they die of thirst.

In 34.11 you could often just kick them out of the military and they would run away, but that will not work most of the time in 40.x as they will continue to steadfastly attack.

I recently lost a whole fortress to an alligator. My dwarves knocked it out and proceeded to beat on its head until they all died (at exactly the same instant) of thirst. Nothing I tried persuaded them to take a break.

I had a similar situation, but my dorfs were punching a panda to death instead.     Amazingly, their kinsmen brought them buckets of water while they 'worked'.