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[Excedion]

Simple question i guess, ive heard of people having friendly batmen live in their fortress and I'd like to do the same, currently a single tribe of 8 batmen has killed 4 forgotten beasts in the caverns meaning 4 of them are friendly, and id like to give these guys a place in my fortress.

So, i think caging them is out of question since they are friendly? Any Ideas? (aside from magma)

[thegoatgod_pan]

Move to them!  Build a simple outpost near them, with a long house a well and maybe a temple to Armok to convert the heathen.  Your dwarves will linger around them and they'll pick up social skills.  You might have to deal with the ones still hostile though.

[Excedion]

Move to them!  Build a simple outpost near them, with a long house a well and maybe a temple to Armok to convert the heathen.  Your dwarves will linger around them and they'll pick up social skills.  You might have to deal with the ones still hostile though.

Hmmm I guess so, i'd rather they came up to the surface to live with my dwaves though. I was planning on building them a Shrine to live in and fill it with statues of dwarves and batmen. and occasionally drop goblin prisoners in from the ceiling for them to eat.

[Lectorog]

You could try cage-trapping them. It probably wouldn't catch the friendly ones, but you could knock them out with a cave-in and then trap them.

Not a bad deal. Surrounded by traps in your cave, and then knocked unconscious. When you wake up, you're in a shrine full of statues, plenty of food. Like a zoo, but better.

[Excedion]

You could try cage-trapping them. It probably wouldn't catch the friendly ones, but you could knock them out with a cave-in and then trap them.

Not a bad deal. Surrounded by traps in your cave, and then knocked unconscious. When you wake up, you're in a shrine full of statues, plenty of food. Like a zoo, but better.

That seems like it could work, maybe I'll trap the enemy ones and put them in the room too, who knows maybe if i continue to dump invaders in there they will turn friendly.

Must remember to save before causing a cave in though, could end badly

[Lectorog]

Yeah, don't collapse it on top of anyone. Drop a little ceiling next to them. It's a bit touchy, but it's a method that works with friendlies, including your dwarves.

Alternatively, drop the floor from under them into a cage trap filled room. A 1 z-level fall generally stuns but doesn't harm, so that should trap them well.

[Excedion]

Yeah, don't collapse it on top of anyone. Drop a little ceiling next to them. It's a bit touchy, but it's a method that works with friendlies, including your dwarves.

Alternatively, drop the floor from under them into a cage trap filled room. A 1 z-level fall generally stuns but doesn't harm, so that should trap them well.

I think I'll go with the second method of dropping them. I'll cage the first few and drop the friendlies. If i start messing around with cave ins again im just gonna end up with dead dwarves and smooshed bat men.

[Carpman]

Yeah, don't collapse it on top of anyone. Drop a little ceiling next to them. It's a bit touchy, but it's a method that works with friendlies, including your dwarves.

Alternatively, drop the floor from under them into a cage trap filled room. A 1 z-level fall generally stuns but doesn't harm, so that should trap them well.

I think I'll go with the second method of dropping them. I'll cage the first few and drop the friendlies. If i start messing around with cave ins again im just gonna end up with dead dwarves and smooshed bat men.

I don't really understand how dropping them would work... wouldn't it have the possibility of dealing damage? And also the falling floors would destroy the cage traps.

[Lectorog]

1 z-level falls don't deal damage, they just stun. Try it in your fort, or in adventure mode, if you want.

As for the destruction of cage traps, I forgot about that. It might work, it might not. Worst thing that could happen is him having some batmen in a pit. There's really no downside.

[Excedion]

Success! Got the bat man to fall into the cage trap by digging around him. One of my hammermen beat the shit into one of the hostile ones on top of a cage trap and she got caught. Tried to catch the other one with a bridge but atom smashed her.

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Put a giant magma cross contained by clear glass (god damn crystal glass bug) and filled the room with silver statues of my dwarves being awesome and elves/humans getting killed by creatures

It think i'll just leave this guy and the other one ive capture in there maybe they will breed eventually. Lost a legendary hammerdwarf and a miner trying to get the one i atom smashed too...

[Carpman]

Awesome.