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[En3rgy_MAX]

Hey there people, I've been playing DF for about half a year now and yet I still don't know everything about DF. There's just SO MUCH to the game. One major thing I don't know, is how to capture animals. I know I can set up an animal trap and put some meat in it and capture some rat. But that doesn't do me much or any thing out of it. What I really want to catch are some horses that have been walking around my region. Could anyone give me any way to capture them? Or do I have to trade for a caged horse from the merchants?

[Tizer]

To catch verman you use a animal trap to catch animals (things you see on the (u) menu) use a cage trap. I know it seem a bit counterintuitive. but it works.

[En3rgy_MAX]

Alright, let me try that out then.

[Aspgren]

Horses move in herds.
This means that if one horse falls into a trap, other horses will be close to that trap. A cluster of traps in a chokepoint would be a good idea ... but chokepoints are hard to find out on fields where horses roam.

You COULD set up a cluster of cagetraps somewhere where you've seen the animals frequent. I've seen them return to specific areas more than once ... or you could set up a cluster, draft civilians and try to scare the horses into the traps. Horses are nice so they won't fight back unless your dwarves catch up with them.

[En3rgy_MAX]

You COULD set up a cluster of cagetraps somewhere where you've seen the animals frequent. I've seen them return to specific areas more than once ... or you could set up a cluster, draft civilians and try to scare the horses into the traps. Horses are nice so they won't fight back unless your dwarves catch up with them.

Hm, that's more specific, no offense Tizer. Okay, I'll put up some cage traps right now and wait for the horses to come back, because they left through the south. But there are about ten groundhogs which I could tether around my entrances, once I tame and catch them, of course. =]

[Albedo]

Hey, don't knock groundhogs!  Animals such as that will slow down a goblin charge - they stop to butcher the little blighters while you get your fortress buttoned down and geared up.

[cowofdoom78963]

try a trap fence, it takes alot of time but it will probably get just about all the animals you want.

Then conscript soldiers to scare them into the traps.

[Albedo]

I found a great box canyon that I carved out and can chase them into without too much trouble (station two blocking squads of 1 each on either side to shy them to the middle).  Put a wide bridge there wiht a moat, and then either use it as live weapons practice or seed it with traps, depending what's in there.

[Skorpion]

For capturing animals, the best option I've found is to make a rough circle of cage traps around the fort, and stick one or two in major pinch points.

After a while, you get a breeding population going with a male and a few females chained up somewhere convinient.