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[MetalHead]

So I'm a bit for a nub concerning major DF challenges like breaching caverns, dredging magma from the mag sea or the Fun beyond but I would like some advice from the professionals as to what my quasi-casual playing strategy might be missing.  Two main points:

1: If most of my non-critical workers have wood hauling enabled, why don't they deliver wood to my nearly empty wood stocks?

2 (and the title-relevant post, sorry but im kinda wasted right now): My walls stretch to a post about 6x away from the border, so in an effort to capture local wildlife and unlucky invaders i put traps in this design:

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or:

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around each corner to try and trap anything that rolls by.


TL;DR: If you have a chokepoint like this, a cage trap setup like this employed by an important corner will catch ABSURD amounts of both wildlife and prisoners.

I wouldn't mention this except for both the people having trouble with effective traps and those literally swimming in captives as I am right now.  I just got done with my third wave of 10+ goblin execution runs with my entire military standing by to slaughter the hapless captives, and enough elephants to run my ivory processing industries for at least 5 years.

[Loud Whispers]

1. Are they busy? Are they on a break?

[twilightdusk]

1. Make sure they can reach the wood, and that there's wood to be collected.