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[Zantan]

If I manage to catch and tame a cave spider without it being eaten first, will that allow it to wander around and make webs without being accosted by cats and hungry dwarves?

[blah28722]

I'll probably get eaten by dwarves instead.

[Angellus]

If only that would mean web-pooing dwarves...

[Skorpion]

Slaughter the cats.

If they're pets, have the owner thrown into magma. Or lure him into the noble-toaster with a lever, then set the door to pet-impassable before he leaves. Then order him to pump magma.

[XSI]

I'd suggest you just have your spider silk room locked away deep in the fortress, with at least 5 non-pet passable doors to stop cats.

I'm not sure if it helps to tame the spider and release it, but something in me says it's probably worth a try.

[Quietust]

Cats won't bother tame spiders, and dwarves won't try to eat them, but there have been reports that released tamed vermin simply vanish into thin air after a period of time.

[Shadetree]

Will adopted cave spiders still produce silk?
Any way to make your weaver adopt it if so?


<Collect Silk>
oh...right here on my shoulder.

[Rowanas]

Hmm. If your weaver likes spiders, voila, no issue.

[Quietust]

Adopted vermin pets are carried around in the owner's inventory, and cave spiders only produce webs when walking around on the floor.

[Jim Groovester]

Cats won't bother tame spiders, and dwarves won't try to eat them, but there have been reports that released tamed vermin simply vanish into thin air after a period of time.

I can confirm this. I've captured phantom spiders, tamed them, and dumped them deep into the earth. They produced webs just fine. They also disappeared, as you said, but they reappeared a short time later.

I don't know if cave spiders, or other vermin, have life spans, so I don't know how long tamed cave spiders roaming about would stick around.

[Kulantan]

I can confirm this. I've captured phantom spiders, tamed them, and dumped them deep into the earth. They produced webs just fine. They also disappeared, as you said, but they reappeared a short time later.

Sounds like standard vermin teleportation behaviour. Did you happen to notice any of them teleporting past doors or the like, as that might be seriously inconvenitent.

[Hobgobwin]

Put a door that's tightly shut in the area. On another note, here's a handy way of farming giant cave spider silk.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Stargrasper]

Except this thread speaks of the vermin cave spiders, not the creature giant cave spiders.  Major difference.

Of course, getting a creature that produces web perhaps isn't a bad idea, modding one to do it if you have to.  It's just not the question of this thread.

[Hobgobwin]

A tightly shut door keeps kittens from getting through to hunt the vermin.

[MC Dirty]

A tightly shut door keeps kittens from getting through to hunt the vermin.

Except vermin teleport all over the place. I'm pretty sure vermin don't do a pathfinding check to move.