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[NinjaBoot]

Just wonder, how does the game create a webbed cage trap?

Are they automatically applied to any and all existing cage traps in place, or are they created when they lay down new ones automatically (if you have the given material, is it GCS webs, threads?)?

[Prologue]

The game doesn't 'automatically' create a webbed cage trap. A webbed trap is basically a web on top of a trap. The games doesn't make them by itself, you need to devise a plan to add webs on top of your cages. And it's not threads, it's webs, you cannot collect them by themselves since dwarfs will destroy it if they walk over it, or turn it into threads in a loom.

The only way I can think of is to capture a GSC and make it shoot your dwarfs behind a fortification so that the webs will go over your traps.

Good luck.

[i2amroy]

The "web farm" portion of the Giant Cave Spider article on the wiki can be easily set up to spray webs over an area with cage traps, allowing for relatively easy placement. Just make sure that you have the area closed off to your dwarves, or the cage traps will catch them as well!

[NinjaBoot]

Hmmm, I see!

I guess it wouldn't be "dwarvernly" to simply churn out webbed cage traps (and easy too). 

[Avo]

A GCS cage trap isn't actually a construction, its a abuse/clever use of two features. Cage traps will capture any stunned creature, dwarves included. The web simply stuns them so they trigger the trap.

[NinjaBoot]

A GCS cage trap isn't actually a construction, its a abuse/clever use of two features. Cage traps will capture any stunned creature, dwarves included. The web simply stuns them so they trigger the trap.

So, it doesn't nescessiarly have to be a GCS that stuns them, just as long as they're stunned when they hit the cage trap?  Hmmm..

[NonconsensualSurgery]

A GCS cage trap isn't actually a construction, its a abuse/clever use of two features. Cage traps will capture any stunned creature, dwarves included. The web simply stuns them so they trigger the trap.

So, it doesn't nescessiarly have to be a GCS that stuns them, just as long as they're stunned when they hit the cage trap?  Hmmm..

Yes and no. Falling asleep, losing consciousness from trauma or hitting the cage trap from one z-level above will also catch a creature with [TRAPAVOID] - or dwarves!

The challenge is that almost all the interesting things that have [TRAPAVOID] come with many other immunity tags that keep every immobilization effect except GCS webs from working.