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[Free_]

How should I go about this? I have 3 rutherers in the main lobby of my fortress, and they're too terrified to go back down.. I'm not at the point where I can kill them, and I also don't have any animal trainers. Is there any way to build cages/traps with wood or stone? I'm a newbie, so I'm sorry if it's an obvious question!

[madpathmoth]

I'm a newb myself, so I'm going mostly off of what the DF Wiki has on the topic.

Rutherers are big, over half the size of an elephant, but they're entirely benign.  If you leave them alone they won't hurt anyone.  You can catch them in cages, they're pretty valuable and produce a LOT of meat, and you can make cages out of wood at a carptenter's workshop, or metal at a metalsmith's forge, and all it should take is placing the traps near where the animals are wandering and waiting.  However it takes five in-game years for a Rutherer to grow to full size, so if you wanna try breeding them, be prepared to wait a long time before you start getting a return investment.

[Free_]

I'm a newb myself, so I'm going mostly off of what the DF Wiki has on the topic.

Rutherers are big, over half the size of an elephant, but they're entirely benign.  If you leave them alone they won't hurt anyone.  You can catch them in cages, they're pretty valuable and produce a LOT of meat, and you can make cages out of wood at a carptenter's workshop, or metal at a metalsmith's forge, and all it should take is placing the traps near where the animals are wandering and waiting.  However it takes five in-game years for a Rutherer to grow to full size, so if you wanna try breeding them, be prepared to wait a long time before you start getting a return investment.

Thank you! Now I wait for the Rutherers to actually get caged.

[Thisfox]

It's always a delight to think that a cage that can hold a kitten can also hold an elephant, a giant elephant, or a rutherer....

[orius]

It's always a delight to think that a cage that can hold a kitten can also hold an elephant, a giant elephant, or a rutherer....

What do you mean by "or"?

[PatrikLundell]

I assume you've already got that, but you can build a cage out of wood and then a cage trap with a stone mechanism plus the cage, so wood + stone is all you need for cage traps.

Rutherers are great creatures to have in caverns. When a group of those are roaming the cavern other critter groups won't enter that cavern (except FBs), so keeping track of when a rutherer herd enters allows you to send your dorfs into that cavern to do what needs doing there with limited risk (savage biomes support two concurrent groups of critters), and when the herd starts to drop in size because they're leaving it's time to withdraw the work force.

[anewaname]

Avoid sending military dwarfs near the rutherers... When military dwarfs are "active" (due to training, move, or kill orders) and are near a wild animal, they will attack it. When wild animals are attacked there is a chance they will attack back, even while they are fleeing. Since rutherers are many times the size of a dwarf, even a dwarf in full armor may be killed in one swipe.