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[TheBeardyMan]

So, a goblin snatcher got caught in one of my cage traps. I figured out how to confiscate his weapons and armour (include the cage in a d-b-d, then use a non-recursive dumping method (k d or stocks menu) to undump the cage only), but it all went wrong when I tried to throw him down a pit. I have a 1x1 pit zone over a 1x1 pit going down 15 z-levels, and I constructed the goblin cage adjacent to the pit. I assigned the goblin to the pit, but when a dwarf finally got round to the job the goblin escaped.

Is there always a risk of this happening? Or am I doing it wrong?

[bluephoenix]

This happened to me a lot i finally finished my magma death pit and as soon as i get some goblins the goblin just walks away as if the dwarf simply opened the door for him.

It only happened when I tryed to throw goblins down the pit, orcs from the "orcs more things to kill" mod work perfectly fine so I think the problem lies with the goblins maybe .

[Tcei]

Generally this only happens when you try to move goblin theives/snatchers, normal gobos from raids or ambushes will quite happily be thown in your pit of doom, Least in my experience that's how its worked.  Good thing you removed his weapons. Snatchers tend to get stabby with the person trying to remove 'em from their cage

[Shakma]

Yeah, snatchers can get away very easily.  Should still be able to dump them bu usually the problem is you build the cage and the dumping dwarf decides to dump from a different square.  Make sure you limit the squares that can be used to dump by building walls or just build the cage on a different side of the pit and it may fix it.

[XSI]

There is always a chance of this happening, thieves/snatchers tend to escape most, and don't even try moving a megabeast like that.

This is a reason to keep the military close to any pitting you have going on, if you're using hammer- or macedwarves, they might still hit the goblin down the hole.

[SquirrelWizard]

Well I see your first problem, you aren't using enough magma...


But yeah, when it comes to dumping, I typically station my marksdwarves nearby to oversee the whole operation to make sure that any goblin that bolts for it, gets some bolts for its troubles... *rimshot*

[FluffyToast J]

You could always construct the cage on a floor or something that has no access to anywhere, link up the floor to collapse with the same lever to deconstruct the cage, and pull the lever. That should work. At least, in theory.