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Dame de la Licorne

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multiple dwarves can cage large animals into the same cage
« on: November 19, 2008, 04:03:54 pm »

Currently, if you designate a pit, you can assign several animals and many dwarves will show up with the job "pit/pond large creature" simultaneously.  I'd like to suggest that the same be true when cramming animals into cages, have multiple dwarves carry out the job simultaneously.  Right now, it can take forever depending on how many animals you want caged and how big the fortress is.
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Re: multiple dwarves can cage large animals into the same cage
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2008, 04:34:05 pm »

Currently, if you designate a pit, you can assign several animals and many dwarves will show up with the job "pit/pond large creature" simultaneously.  I'd like to suggest that the same be true when cramming animals into cages, have multiple dwarves carry out the job simultaneously.  Right now, it can take forever depending on how many animals you want caged and how big the fortress is.

I think that only works if you have more than one edge tile. The equivalent to which would be, you know, having more than one cage.
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Re: multiple dwarves can cage large animals into the same cage
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2008, 08:15:05 pm »

Oh.  Well in that case, somehow change the job system so that each creature to be caged generates the job instead of the cage.  If I understand correctly, the current system does the opposite, the cage generates the jobs one-by-one.
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