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[em1LL]

I just caught a giant cave spider and created a "traditional" silk farm as the following:



Dwarves see the spider (because I receive "interrupted by Giant Cave Spider" messages) but the spider doesn't throw web at my military dwarves.

What's the reason?

[PatrikLundell]

Silk farms still work, yes. I make them with undead as targets, though.

However, a lot of creatures have lost a lot of their aggressiveness, so you can have trolls and troglos running past dorfs without either party caring, and even "hostile" animal people in the cavern who are totally unresponsive unless you actively attack them.

[greycat]

Make the military dwarf move a bit closer to the GCS.  Spiders have very short range vision, and they only target moving creatures, not stationary ones.

[gchristopher]

Make the military dwarf move a bit closer to the GCS.  Spiders have very short range vision, and they only target moving creatures, not stationary ones.

A wild GCS will happily target a stationary captured military goblin. If you want a silk farm that can be toggled, anything like this works:

[spider] [fortification] [raising bridge] [goblin] [fortification] [web collection area]

Raising the bridge will cut line of fire from the GCS and you can recapture them both with cage traps behind doors.

If the web collection area is a retracting bridge, it will drop webs to a lower z-level when retracted, where they will stack, making web accumulation a lot more productive.