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[Onul]

My woodworker is 'occasionally given to procrastination' and needs to quit sitting on his beard and make those darn animal traps before the lizards eat all our food. We'd also like some chairs for the dining room.

How long are we going to have to wait? Any predictions?

[Neonivek]

It is a bug to my knowledge

I havn't been able to make any "Animal Traps" Either in my game

[Onul]

Oi, that was quick--thankee.

Hmm. I'll cancel the orders out and see what happens.

Edit: Oh!! Can't make animal traps after all. And I opted to use traps in lieu of cats...uh-oh.

Thanks for your help! That solved it. =)

[ May 13, 2008: Message edited by: Onul ]

[Neonivek]

Ohh I just read

It isn't a bug... but your carpenter also has to be a trapper or something like that... Or only Trappers can make it or something...

[Onul]

That'd make sense. I'll give it a shot next chance I get.

[Shzar]

Animal traps are made by dwarves with the trapper skill enabled.

[Onul]

This forum is supernaturally friendly, helpful and welcoming....It's unnerving.

Am I on the same internet?

[Cthulhu]

It's just because Greymario isn't here.

The intertubes leak in here occasionally, as can be seen on the EPIC THREAD.

[Quift]

Holy shit!

Read that entire thread and I have lost some serious faith in humanity as of now. I cannot fathom how on earth some of those posters manage to to call each other "idoitic", while pretending to outsmart each other.

If this is the internet revolution I wont dance.

[Kagus]

Title.  My.  Read.

You think that's bad?  Hell, that's nothin'.  I've seen (and participated in, I am sory to say) much worse.  I've seen similar threads started and carried by the forum administrators!  Eep.

Anyways, yeah, animal traps (be they wooden or metal) need the trapping skill.  Took me a while before I figured that out the first time, and it can really clog up an otherwise smooth-flowing carpentry or metalworking shop.  Supposedly it will get tweaked whenever Toady decides to do some major job reworking, but that would make the trapping skill completely useless...

In any case, if you're going to go for dwarf-powered vermin control, it's a good idea to keep a dedicated dwarf for it anyways.  Build a separate shop for him to make stuff in without bothering your carpenter, and then you can send him out to capture vermin while still churning out beds and barrels with your carpenter.

[Quift]

Wouldn't starving dwarves work as an efficient pest-control as well?

in that case you will soon find a balance where the pests eat so much food that they themselves become it, and when the pests have been reduced the foodstock should rise, till the pests have replenished themselves.

This is the science of dwarven ecology.

[Kagus]

Well, starving dwarves aren't really all that good at getting vermin creatures to munch on...  If you use a trapper who has an extensive number of spare traps, he can trap the critters and put them in your stockpile.  Once in a stockpile, they're considered ultra-fresh exotic food for your dwarves to enjoy, and as such they won't recieve the "had to eat vermin in order to survive" unhappy thought.  So it's best to actively use a dwarf as a trapper rather than just let everyone hunt for themselves.

[Loctavus]

I always rely on dwarf power vermin disposal rather than cats. What I do is make a bunch of traps, set up a cage right by the animal storage and then stick 'capture small animal' on repeat. Then all I need to do is occasionally go to the cage and assign all the live vermin I have to it to free up the traps. It stops the vermin munching on my supplies and dwarves can and will eat the little buggers, even if there is an abundance of other food. They seem to have no preference between towercaps and a wriggly live rat or dragonfly. The result, more food for everybody.

[Kagus]

I believe you mean plump helmets.  Tower-caps are a bit hard on the teeth.