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[Vozhban]

Ive been playing as an adventurer for some time and found a goblin camp. With my squad of five warriors I charged them and got hit by a net-thrower. Now my adventurer is caged. In a beautiful pink cage. Time keeps going(I've almost died of thirst for now) and it seems i have no way to leave the cage. So I am interested if anybody knows how to escape the cage, or all I have to do is wait for death?

[Rumrusher]

You could use gui/gm-editor df.global.world.units.active[0] and dive into the flags section to find the caged flag and untick that to free yourself.
This kind of thing is why cage traps don't work in vanilla any more. you best want to destroy the cage that holds your self or you going to quantum leap once you leave the area or fast travel.

[Boltgun]

I added a note to myself to add an adv reaction to uncage yourself, that should fix such issue in the future.

[Vozhban]

I tried to use gm-editor, but the problem was that controls were not working, so I couldn't select myself. Timeflow was like in fortress mode, but slower. 3 days in about 30 minutes. And nothing except ESC worked.

[evictedSaint]

I had a similar problem with a statue a while back.

I have no idea if it'll work correctly, but you can use dfhack "changeitem" command to change the material of the cage to something that will harmlessly boil away at room temperature.

[Boltgun]

I tried to use gm-editor, but the problem was that controls were not working, so I couldn't select myself. Timeflow was like in fortress mode, but slower. 3 days in about 30 minutes. And nothing except ESC worked.

Bah, that take away options.

[Meph]

Maybe it would be best to somehow restrict the cages that are shot to a material that withers away. If they have a fixed temp and a fixed heat dam point, they could degrade slowly away, maybe 1 month in fortress mode. That would stop them from being so overpowered.

[Rumrusher]

 still find it better to write an adventurer script that would allow the player to pick the lock of the cage.

oh here's a simple one.

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df.global.world.units.active[0].flags1.caged=false
just tested this in arena mode all you need to do is make an escape.lua file with this line in it.
Presto your character will escape from any cage trap, with a few hours taken from their life, hell you could map this to a keybinding if you want.

[Meph]

still find it better to write an adventurer script that would allow the player to pick the lock of the cage.

oh here's a simple one.

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df.global.world.units.active[0].flags1.caged=false
just tested this in arena mode all you need to do is make an escape.lua file with this line in it.
Presto your character will escape from any cage trap, with a few hours taken from their life, hell you could map this to a keybinding if you want.

Neat.

You can even map it to an interaction with syndrome-trigger. "Free yourself from cage".

[Boltgun]

still find it better to write an adventurer script that would allow the player to pick the lock of the cage.

oh here's a simple one.

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df.global.world.units.active[0].flags1.caged=false
just tested this in arena mode all you need to do is make an escape.lua file with this line in it.
Presto your character will escape from any cage trap, with a few hours taken from their life, hell you could map this to a keybinding if you want.

Neat.

You can even map it to an interaction with syndrome-trigger. "Free yourself from cage".

That's the idea, if the powers or reaction menu is accessible while caged you can add a way  for players to free themselves.

[Rumrusher]

still find it better to write an adventurer script that would allow the player to pick the lock of the cage.

oh here's a simple one.

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df.global.world.units.active[0].flags1.caged=false
just tested this in arena mode all you need to do is make an escape.lua file with this line in it.
Presto your character will escape from any cage trap, with a few hours taken from their life, hell you could map this to a keybinding if you want.

Neat.

You can even map it to an interaction with syndrome-trigger. "Free yourself from cage".

That's the idea, if the powers or reaction menu is accessible while caged you can add a way  for players to free themselves.

wait reaction menu and powers , I say either Dfhack quick fix or if you want to get fancy build a tweak that checks if the adventurer is caged, then prompts a ui asking them if they want to be freed.
or if you want to be super fancy built in minigame you play to break the cage.
I say this because you can't access powers or reaction menu while caged because the game kinda prevents you from taking a turn. Skipping you until you're out of the cage or died.