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[Martin]

If I seal the fortress except for an outdoor stockpile of miscellaneous junk, will they steal from that?

Kobolds will go for the most expensive thing they can path to from their spawn point. To protect your stuff, put your artifacts as far down in your fortress as you can, requiring them to path through as many busy spaces as possible to get to them. It actually can work against you to seal that stuff off, as they might instead path to your steel trap components stockpiled near your entrance while you build - but if that artifact wooden flute is pathable, the kobolds will walk right past the stuff near the entrance.


To get them to successfully take stuff, you need to leave it outside of your perimeter and block pathing to anything more expensive than what you want them to take.

[Uristocrat]

Leave a few exceptional quality cloth items. Poor Kobolds on my map keep getting killed by the local fauna

Make sure it is not a sock or urist McGreedy will go after it and either kill a kobold passing around or get killed by it if he a usefull dwarf.

Or make more socks.

Many.

MANY.

MOAR SOCKS.

Then set up a "sockfall" trap to kill them.  Recent !!SCIENCE!! has proven that dropping sufficient quantities of any object, including socks, can be lethal to anyone underneath.

[Sabreur]

If I seal the fortress except for an outdoor stockpile of miscellaneous junk, will they steal from that?

Kobolds will go for the most expensive thing they can path to from their spawn point. To protect your stuff, put your artifacts as far down in your fortress as you can, requiring them to path through as many busy spaces as possible to get to them. It actually can work against you to seal that stuff off, as they might instead path to your steel trap components stockpiled near your entrance while you build - but if that artifact wooden flute is pathable, the kobolds will walk right past the stuff near the entrance.


To get them to successfully take stuff, you need to leave it outside of your perimeter and block pathing to anything more expensive than what you want them to take.

Thanks, that's what I needed to confirm.

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

Make a single stockpile and put only high quality finished goods in it.

Then surround the stockpile with cage traps.

F = Floor, C = Cage Trap, S = Stockpile:

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FCCCCCF
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Their greed shall be their downfall!

[Corai]

We be trapavoid, Pillow! Your traps will never catch our hard-working people that steal to survive! Never!

[Eric Blank]

Indeed; the best method for catching kobolds is to go with a long hallway of retracting bridges, over an equally long hallway of cage traps 1 z-level below. Place an animal of some sort at the interior end of the hall so taht it spots the kobold while you have time to pull the lever that retracts the bridges. If the dorf that pulls the lever wasn't the one farthest from siad lever, which is true in 99% of cases of lever-pulling, then you should catch a kobold when it is dropped a z-level and stunned on impact with the ground, but not injured, allowing the cage trap it lands on to trigger.