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[zehive]

Goblin Christmas came around recently, and Goblin Claus left me plenty of Goblinite and some of his helpers to entertain my fortress. I have a problem though, I have an animal stockpile which the helpers in their little cages get moved to. If I try to move the cage elsewhere, the helpers are set free and try escaping through my main hallway, with a glitter of sharp objects flinging before them. In their excitement, their cheer explodes painting the walls in a festive red, leaving Goblinite for the good citizens to collect. However, I want them to be both entirely naked AND stay in their cages until I presumably pull the damn lever and set them free inside of a festive colosseum, or in my new Goblin flight training program featuring a 20z level drop.

i'd also like it if i could allow the poorly Goblins to be horrifically maimed interact kindly with the local wildlife in the colosseum, but I encounter the same problems. help anyone?

[thatkid]

Construct the cage somewhere, don't move it from the stockpile.

Alternatively, if for some reason that's not working, make a separate stockpile containing only goblins. Remove permission for Goblins from the original stockpile.

[Girlinhat]

Check your helpers.  Thief helpers tend to be slippery, covered in crisco no doubt.  Soldier helpers can be moved between cages and pitted with no trouble.

[Urist Da Vinci]

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Cage

Read the entire page at the above link. It should answer all of your questions.

[zehive]

all of this worked. i was bored so just now i set them all into a single cage in my colosseum and had my legendary swordsdwarf play with them. as you may have guessed, everything is now red and green. festive little fellows, goblins.