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[Aviator CJ]

I'm just sitting here, outlasting a goblin siege when I had a crazy thought. So, this being Dwarf Fortress, I acted on it.

I built a glass cage that was already holding a goblin prisoner. Then, I switched it to aquarium mode. My dorfs dutifully filled it up, (I imagine them laughing at the distressed cries of the gobbo) and then I watched for a while to see if the goblin would drown. As it turns out, he doesn't. The aquarium lists it's contents as:

Zom Uksosaxusp, Goblin Bowman
water
water [9]

So the goblin must have gills or something.

Is this a known bug feature? Because there doesn't seem to be anything about this on the wiki.

[toomanysecrets]

A cage will protect a creature inside it from drowning

Not sure if this is supposed to get changed in the future. Presumably the goblin can stick his nose out the top to breathe? Who knows.

[brainfreez]

congratulations , i think you just discovered a bug .

[Aviator CJ]

I knew cages protected their contents from water outside the cage, I didn't expect that protection to extend inward. Now I'm tempted to submerge the whole thing, just for kicks.

[brainfreez]

i guess if a creature is in a cage , it is out of the world and is not affected by anything .
more SCIENCE must be done.

[Loud Whispers]

more SCIENCE must be done.

But there is no science that can be done, we know all we can know about cages so far

[Starver]

...see if a cage with a live fish in protects said fish from air-drowning?

(edit: I've not tried to 'unfill' a previously water-filled aquarium, so, not sure how/if the water would be extracted, even after the switch back to 'normal' glass-cage use.  Does the water respond to being set to be dumped?  If that's not possible, is it possible to assign an aquatic animal to a 'dry' cage, or an switched-to-aquarium-mode one that you've managed to prevent being filled?)

(double-edit, this time in response to the following post: Here, you see, I'm showing my ignorance.  I've just not done much marine-life caging at all.  So if all this is a known thing, maybe I can be ignored.  Probably for the best, anyway.)

[Loud Whispers]

...see if a cage with a live fish in protects said fish from air-drowning?

Sea.

Serpents.

[Helgoland]

more SCIENCE must be done.

But there is no science that can be done, we know all we can know about cages so far

Even that we can atomsmash creatures too large to smash by putting them in a cage

[brainfreez]

if a cage is made out of magma safe material , will the creature inside die if its submerged in lava ?

[toomanysecrets]

built cages will not protect caged creatures from magma

Man, the wiki is so amazing