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[Pwned dwarf]

so not only have food in barrels, have it walled in in its own room so dwarves only come to get food, not to get to point a to b, and if thats not enough, have a cat or 2 in the room

[Jigowah]

I usually just use cats, but I think you're smart to put vermin out of view to reduce bad thoughts.  I'm going to adopt this idea.

[BoogieMan]

I too started making the food stores separate, behind a door with cats within and it seemed to help quite a bit.

[Callista]

Vermin will spawn anywhere; forget doors. Barrels and cats are your best bet. You can also trap and butcher the vermin, but since one cat does the work of five good trappers, I tend to go with the cats. Plus, now that they can geld the males to avoid catsplosion, my dwarves don't even have to run around stuffing kittens into cages anymore.

I put all my organic stockpiles (food, drink, plants, animal bits, etc.) in one general area and pasture two or three cats on it.

[Jigowah]

This method doesn't stop vermin from spawning, but isn't it good just to use a room to limit exposure and negative thoughts when seeing vermin?

[BoogieMan]

This method doesn't stop vermin from spawning, but isn't it good just to use a room to limit exposure and negative thoughts when seeing vermin?

Exactly

[Callista]

Doors everywhere are just good practice in general, really.

[NightmareBros]

magma has a guarentee to kill anything that can be classified as vermin to your fort

like nobles or elves or cages full of cats

[§k]

Door can crush vermin, leaving a remain and some blood or ichor, while the door is stuck open, cf. the boatmurdered monarch butterfly.

[thrush_titan]

Some biomes are buggier than others in my experience.  My last glacier fort would produce maybe 3 vermin remains per year.

[SyrusLD]

My swarm of peregrine falcons seems to be an excellent defense against any kind of vermin. Watch out for fire snake remains though, while I never had anything on the same tile burn, I constantly had problems with smoking minecarts, and at one time a pale dwarf came running from my nether-cap refuse-incinerator minecart (filled with fire snakes remains). At that time I decided that just dumping them down the (magma) garbage dump-shaft was the better idea.

So, I don't know, but for me, having 5 or 6 peregrine falcons and 4 cats (can't butcher pets...but they can't reproduce at least) run around did the trick. The remains are put into a stockpile and from there into a minecart, which then dumps them onto a bridge which can be retracted to dump them into magma.