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[TofteTiger]

I have designated cage traps and the mechanisms were set but the cages weren't (I think). The cages show dark green and not bright green and I think that means they are not set yet.
Is there a way to speed up the hauling of cages to them?
I looked in manager for build \ construct\ anything with cage trap in it but nothing.
Did I miss something?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Dorfs will refill the cage traps automatically (eventually). No need for the manager. Assign a few haulers to a burrow consisting of only the animal pile (where the cages are stored) and the trap site to speed things up a little.

(Might need mechanic labor enabled? I forget)

[PatrikLundell]

As Shonai_Dweller said, the Manager can be used for production, but has no role in construction. Cage traps are automatically loaded into constructed cage traps by mechanics. Thus, you should remove all other jobs from the mechanics and suspend all other mechanics related tasks to get your mechanics to focus on cage trap loading.

However, I rarely have a problem with cage trap loading (the exception is when I run out of empty cages because they're all full of prisoners, at which time I get "no empty cage" cancellation spam).

[Demonic Gophers]

You might set up a small stockpile for empty cages near your trap line, so haulers will keep a supply on hand and the mechanics won't have to go as far when loading the traps.  Also makes it easy to see when you're running low on cages.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I keep an order with the manager to make new cages whenever we run low. Seems there's always a bunch of monkeys triggering them right before a siege...

[PatrikLundell]

I keep an order with the manager to make new cages whenever we run low. Seems there's always a bunch of monkeys triggering them right before a siege...

I keep cages in my carpenter workshop on repeat, together with at least beds, but still run out of cages from time to time. It's a lot of work to process all the prisoners, and it takes several decades to fully build the trap defenses (especially when you have to rip them up and redo them due to performance troupe spies reporting them back to their civ).

[Shonai_Dweller]

I keep an order with the manager to make new cages whenever we run low. Seems there's always a bunch of monkeys triggering them right before a siege...

I keep cages in my carpenter workshop on repeat, together with at least beds, but still run out of cages from time to time. It's a lot of work to process all the prisoners, and it takes several decades to fully build the trap defenses (especially when you have to rip them up and redo them due to performance troupe spies reporting them back to their civ).

And all our planning will be for nought come Improved Sieges when goblins will send hordes of kidnapped children to trigger all our traps before the soldiers move in (#wishful thinking).

[TofteTiger]

Thanks. I just made all my dorfs mechanics.