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[brandonandpie]

i need help! i don't have any military and weapons. do i build traps? 

[Nameless Archon]

i need help! i don't have any military and weapons. do i build traps? 

Do you have dogs? Do you have wood for crossbows and bolts? What about wooden training weapons? Do you have enough dwarves to make them all wrestlers? (Do you have healthcare for them when they get bitten?)

[Replica]

You have picks and axes.

[IT 000]

Their monkeys, what harm could they do-- oh yeah, boatmurdered. Well, lock someone in with all the food, booze, socks, and cats, hope that enough migrants come to clean up the mess in a reasonable amount of time.

[brandonandpie]

i have 11 dwarfs and there doing work so i cant use them and when the monkeys come they all run away

[weenog]

If monkeys have turned up repeatedly, they're going to keep turning up.  Monkey clearing duty is a legitimate job.  The little suckers run quick though, you should probably have your monkey sweeper be a marksdwarf.  You could set up an archery range and all that, but that's a load of crap.  Just make a second crossbow for him and turn on the Hunting labor... he'll practice his marksdwarf skills while providing you with food and leather if you have the appropriate workshops, and bones to craft more bolts for himself.  He'll have a hidden civilian Hunting uniform which includes his crossbow though, so he may shy away from using it for military duty, hence making a spare.

[Loud Whispers]

i have 11 dwarfs and there doing work so i cant use them and when the monkeys come they all run away

11 DWARVES ARE STILL 11 DWARVES!

I see enough for 11 military Dwarves. Kill the monkeys.

One.

By.

One.

[Broseph Stalin]

What kind? Macaques are annoying but mandrills are deadly. Either way keep dogs at your entrance and if there's a horde on the horizon station a conscript militia with the default metal armor they should pick up any weapons you have lying around and prepare to defend the fortress.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Or 11 hunters. Hunters are better becasue they work autonamously and count as a civilian job, although worse becasue they require ammo and are...autonamous.

[brandonandpie]

Macaques are the tape of monkeys that come

[brandonandpie]

its over there not coming back in a long time 

[Dr. Melon]

You could also lock your fortress door or build a drawbridge.

[Maynot]

Make pumps and flood them with Magma!

[wuphonsreach]

Monkeys have no armor, therefore traps with cutting edges are recommended.  Make them run across a 1-tile wide bridge filled with nasty slashy traps in order to get inside the fort.

[Fredd]

In DF, always look at how you can utilize problems for your benefit. Set up a butcher and a tannery, use stone fall traps for the pests, reap the rewards of the meat,bones, and hides. With cage traps, a animal trainer is required to tame them for safe butchery.
 If you can armor up a soldier, with a decent weapon, kill orders work good, as well as a station order at the entrance.