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[BlueSam]

Hi, guys! I've been playing for about an year and a half, and it's my first post. Also, I never modded anything, but I'm very interested.

I'd like to know if it's possible to make bear traps the way I imagine them:

You would build the like other trap components (disks), out of metal and installed with a mechanism.  When activated, it would "bite" anyone in the tile and latch. Is there a way to make the attack always target feet and/or lower legs? Also, the target would be able to escape just like it would with an ordinary grip.

Sorry if I'm being too Demandind, but I want to know what is possible before trying to make it. Also, if any of you have anything like it, please share.

[Splint]

As far as I can tell you can't make it latch. But then I've only modded melee weapons, not trap components.

[GreatWyrmGold]

You could make a trap weapon called a "Bear Trap," but you could stack it in with 9 other weapons which could or could not be bear traps, and it would attack a random part and not latch. Do some research on when bear traps were invented and head to the Suggestions forum.

[Quietust]

As traps currently work in Dwarf Fortress, what you are asking for is impossible, plain and simple - it cannot be done.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

The closest thing you can do is make a pressure plate 'capture' trap.
4 small raising bridges around a pressure plate, when someone steps on it, they'll be trapped inside.

[i2amroy]

The closest thing you can do is make a pressure plate 'capture' trap.
4 small raising bridges around a pressure plate, when someone steps on it, they'll be trapped inside.

Or, with the delay involved in working with bridges and pressure plate, either (more likely) escape or (less likely) be crushed.

But yeah, while you could make a trap component that dealt cutting/blunt damage similar to the way a bear trap would, you can't make traps latch right now.

[peregarrett]

Maybe you can make tranquilisator darts trap. Trap with blowgun/xbow/bow and ammo with syndrome adding IMMOBILE tag, if it's possible.
Or transforming into motionless creature, if not.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Not possible to add IMMOBILE. Easier to make them just unconscious for a while. Requires understanding of how to get syndromes onto ammo.

[peregarrett]

Not possible to add IMMOBILE. Easier to make them just unconscious for a while. Requires understanding of how to get syndromes onto ammo.

Or that.

Dwarven Modifications suffer of overcomplexivity as well as Dwarven Machinery.

[BlueSam]

All right, thanks a lot!