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[thedrelle]

this alert keeps pausing the game and directing me to where it occurs, and pausing the game

why?

it's happening almost every minute, and driving me mad!

suggestions on how to fix this issue?

[Tacomagic]

this alert keeps pausing the game and directing me to where it occurs, and pausing the game

why?

it's happening almost every minute, and driving me mad!

suggestions on how to fix this issue?

Don't use animal trappers.  Vermin escape traps very quickly, rendering them barely effective at vermin control.  Cats are a much better solution.

Alternatively, you can dig into announcements.txt in the init folder and change this line:

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[VERMIN_CAGE_ESCAPE:A_D:D_D:P:R]
to this:

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[VERMIN_CAGE_ESCAPE:A_D:D_D]

[Decidophobia]

Or use metal animal traps instead of wood.

[Panando]

This has certainly added much to the game. A pause-worthy announcement indeed!

I have noted that live hamsters/rats will chew their way free of wooden cages as well as wooden animal traps. BUT, you can use wooden animal traps if you have built a metal cage. If you are quick enough you can re-assign live hamsters/rats from their wooden animal trap into the metal cage, and the dwarves will often succeed in relocating the vermin before it chews free. As dwarves will quickly and repeatedly re-capture escaped vermin the timing is not as hard as it sounds.

I filled a wooden cage with some creepy crawlers and added a hamster, the hamster chewed free from the cage and escaped, but the creepy crawlers wouldn't follow it out the hole it had made. This leads me to suspect that by "chewing" Toady actually means a form of quantum tunneling, and the message should read "The live hamster has quantum tunneled out of confinement". Otherwise, I would appreciate if cagemates would escape too, thus the message would read something like: "The live hamster has chewed out of  confinement, freeing a live creepy crawler, a wild elephant, and 57 goblin prisoners".

[Mentalpatient87]

Is there any reason to capture little vermin like that? Or buy them from traders? I know you can mark them as available for pets, but I've never seen anyone go for them. Or even the larger animals for that matter. Seems like if it isn't a cat or they didn't show up with it, nobody takes pets. This makes the little things especially useless because they're either clogging up a cage or your livestock list. You can't even butcher them for stuff.

[Decidophobia]

They only take pets they have a preference for, so if no one in your fortress likes rats they won't adopt them. Still, it gives the animal trainers some practice.

[SixOfSpades]

Today, I learned that rats are more powerful than dragons.

[Tacomagic]

Today, I learned that rats are more powerful than dragons.

Rats have numbers and guile.  Dragons only have fire.