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Coco146

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Capturing flying animals?
« on: July 21, 2011, 11:46:38 am »
I have a couple of giant owls causing trouble for my fort and personally I would rather that they caused trouble for the elves. I have a plan involving a rope and a donkey, but would it work?
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Re: Capturing flying animals?
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2011, 11:52:25 am »
I dunno, do they tend to randomly attack your animals?
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Re: Capturing flying animals?
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2011, 12:00:54 pm »
There are no giant owls in vanilla DF.  What mod are you using?  They may or may not go after the donkey, depending on what kind of behavior tags they have.
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Re: Capturing flying animals?
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2011, 01:42:08 pm »
I think he may mean giant eagles.
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Coco146

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Re: Capturing flying animals?
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2011, 01:52:49 pm »
Genesis mod, and yes they are going after my animals
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Re: Capturing flying animals?
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2011, 05:48:34 pm »
Lure them into an undergound passageway (kittens = bait), drop a bridge over the exit, and get it in a cage trap.
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Re: Capturing flying animals?
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2011, 05:55:58 pm »
If you somehow get them into a cage trap then manage to tame them, they won't be flying wonders anymore, also birds lay eggs so it may mean that you won't be able to breed em either.

But it would be great if you could somehow contain them and then set them loose (see above post  :) )
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Re: Capturing flying animals?
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2011, 05:58:09 pm »
Here's how I would recommend doing it: Build a wall across the map, spanning its z-levels also. Leave some gaps in it. Fill gaps with cage traps. Finished. Now, if the flying creatures want to get to the other side of the map, they have to fly through a cage trap, and get caught.
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