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[Hoooooooar]

I have 4 military dorfs stuck in cages that i cannot open.  For some reason in all of my games the only cage i have ever been able to link up..... is my giant animal cage, other then that i cannot link a cage to a lever.  Also i don't know if this is normal or not, but when i try to add anything to levers i get a list i cannot select it manually, i have to choose from the list.

I thought it might of been a bug on my last map because i reclaimed.  My last 3 however i have been unable to open up cages with levers, and before i just left goblins inside forever because i could never figure out how to link it up........ now i am doing pretty well again and i'd really like to get my 4 military dwarfs out.  I looked on the wiki how to link up things and i can do it with floodgates so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.  I have researched the forums and the wiki and for the life of me cannot figure it out.  edit*  upon removing my giant animal cage i get the message "There is nothing that can be linked up" yet there is a bunch of cages filled with goblins and dorfs.  Halppppp

[VoidPointer]

Are you uilding the cages[j] that you're trying to link? As for the list, that's the only way to select a cage. It's like some of the other menus; use +/- or /* to navigate.

[Hoooooooar]

they are all wooden cages that i built, and then placed cage traps. now they have goblins and dwarfs in them.  I don't think i quite follow the question do you mean did i build them or did i buy them from trade?  or can they not be linked after filled up? they were just unlinked cage traps then they got filled and i want to link em to open up now but i cannot.  wish there was a "open cage" option

[VoidPointer]

From the main menu, press b to open the build menu. Then press j to select Cage. You should get a list of all your cages (press x to get a list of individual cages as opposed to types of cages). Select a cage.

Did you already do this before trying to link the cage?

[Hoooooooar]

well they are cage traps so i never hit b, j to build em they get placed automatically when i build a trap.

[VoidPointer]

Yeah, that's your problem right there. The item your dwarves put in the trap, a cage, is distinct from a cage trap (b-T-c) and from a cage that has been placed as a building (b-j), which is what you want. It's like how dwarves won't actually use a bed until you've put it down as a building. Build the cages, then you'll be able to link them up.

[Hoooooooar]

Ok so i don't want to build cage traps.....i saw that i can transfer them to chains the regular military goblins i transfered to a chain didn't fight but as soon as assigned a chain to a thief and one of the dorfs went to get him he took off heh.  Still a bit confusing thats for certain...

So let me get this right, it is impossible to open up cage traps that were built through the traps/levers menu?  but i need to build cage through the build menu, then link them up? then set cage traps to open them?  brain asplosion. 

[blue emu]

When you first build a cage trap with 'b' - 'T' - 'c' a Mechanic will load the trap with an empty cage from your Animal stockpile. When a creature (an Elephant, goblin, dwarf, etc) gets trapped in the cage trap, the full cage is dumped out with the creature inside, the filled cage gets returned to your Animal stockpile, and a Mechanic will reload the trap with another empty cage.

You now need to build the filled cage (NOT a cage-trap.. the cage itself) by 'b' - 'j' - select a spot - 'x' - select a filled cage - <enter>.

THEN you can hook up a lever to it (requires two mechanisms plus the mechanism for the lever itself) and release the contents.

[Hoooooooar]

got it 100% now thx ;0