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[joeclark77]

Two questions for situations I've never encountered before:

(1) My second militia commander (the first died with his War Giant Cheetah in an unfortunate drawbridge accident) tried to solo fight a Giant Dingo and it bit both of his hands off.  I decided to make him my Baron since I couldn't think of anything else for a no-handed dwarf to do.  So far he's doing fine.  Are there any other jobs I could have given him instead?  The only things I can think of are broker or manager.

(2) Two of my peasants walked over a webbed cage trap and got caged.  Is there any way to get them out, short of building the cage somewhere, installing a lever, and opening it mechanically?  Will other dwarves feed and water them while they wait for the mechanics to do their thing?

[ORCACommander]

#2: zones. set up a pit zone and order the cage dumped into it

[Sirbug]

I think you can also assign prisoners to pen/pasture.

[Garath]

dwarf stuck in a cage: dumping or pitting won't do it I think. Installing and lever was the only one I remember, though I think there were more ways

if your (ex) militia commader is still one of the most skilled dwarfs, he can still teach recruits. Recruits tend to have demonstrations first untill they reach a certain level of skill. The average peasant is very resistant to sparring. Besides, a great or even legendary warrior gives very effective demonstrations

[slothen]

(2) Two of my peasants walked over a webbed cage trap and got caged.  Is there any way to get them out, short of building the cage somewhere, installing a lever, and opening it mechanically?  Will other dwarves feed and water them while they wait for the mechanics to do their thing?

Easy.

Build dwarf cage.
view it with (q)
dwarf should be at top of creatures list
highlight dwarf and click enter to unassign him.
a dwarf will be along shortly and let him out of the cage normally.

[taptap]

Two questions for situations I've never encountered before:

(1) My second militia commander (the first died with his War Giant Cheetah in an unfortunate drawbridge accident) tried to solo fight a Giant Dingo and it bit both of his hands off.  I decided to make him my Baron since I couldn't think of anything else for a no-handed dwarf to do.  So far he's doing fine.  Are there any other jobs I could have given him instead?  The only things I can think of are broker or manager.

(2) Two of my peasants walked over a webbed cage trap and got caged.  Is there any way to get them out, short of building the cage somewhere, installing a lever, and opening it mechanically?  Will other dwarves feed and water them while they wait for the mechanics to do their thing?

A dwarf without hands will sooner or later start spamming job cancellations and get overwhelming unhappy thoughts for not being able to put on new clothes. When I had the problem I tried to turn the dwarf into a werecreature for healing with the plan to segregate him afterwards (although it is quite hard to do so / you need good timing for the dwarf being bitten by the creature without actually falling victim to it and I failed in my attempt). But the good thing about a dead baron is that you can play a happy little republic.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Can dwarves with no hands drink? How do they hold the barrel?

[Aquathug]

Can dwarves with no hands drink? How do they hold the barrel?

I bet there's a dwarf out there with no mouth who can still drink. They will find a way.