Operation Stop The Itch is complete. Now what to do with 30 caged magma crabs...?
Tame them and eat them? Tame them and build a bunker full of them to spit magma blobs at baddies? Tame them, breed them, and eat the babies?
Sadly, they cannot be tamed by RAW.
I have enabled mechanics on all my doctors, traders and my one architect so that the traps will be completed sooner. They keeping suspended because, supposedly, the builders can't reach the site, which is clearly bullshit when I go to look at the trap. This problem has plagued me since day one of trapline construction, and I don't understand why it happens.
I've been looking over my dwarfs with an eye for future scholars, and was blown away by one Zaneg Irolon: Accomplished Siege Engineer, High Master Mechanic, Accomplished Pump Operator, Great Organizer (apparently that has something to do with scholaring), Great Optics Engineer, Great Fluids Engineer, Accomplished Student, Legendary Reader, Legendary Writer, Legendary Wordsmith, has a great memory, a natural inclination towards language, and a good intellect and values knowledge. This guy is going to be the greatest scholar ever! Once the traps are done, I'll be sure to play around with my workshop settings so he gets the chance to grind his way up to being a legendary mechanic (I've had my mechanic shops set to "legendary only" for many years now). In fact, I think I'll go out of my way to make sure all my mechanics level up to legendary so that they are all spectacular scholars when I finally get that library.