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[shadowclasper]

Okay, lets say I fill a hallway with cage traps and station a squad there. Let's also assume whatever big bad is coming through knocks a few of my dwarves out without activating the traps (somehow). Would the dwarves then be sealed inside the cage traps, and totally safe from harm?

AKA: Could I use cage traps as an emergency PROTECT THE KNOCKED OUT GUY FROM FURTHER HARM method of protection?

[Jervous]

Yeah. You'll have to build the cage, link it up to a lever and release it though, and before they die of hunger/thirst...

[shadowclasper]

Yeah. You'll have to build the cage, link it up to a lever and release it though, and before they die of hunger/thirst...

better than them being finished off by goblins ehn? Won't they keep beating up on downed dwarves until they're dead? I've never really paid attention to that myself, I just know that usually once a dwarf is knocked out, he's a dead dwarf unless I have marksdwarves arriving RIGHT THEN.

[Frogwarrior]

Yeah. You'll have to build the cage, link it up to a lever and release it though, and before they die of hunger/thirst...

Actually, this is thankfully untrue. I recently played a turn in a succession fort, and near the beginning noticed that I had a Dwarf cage in my stocks.
It contained one of my dwarves, who'd sustained major injuries in a siege sometime before my turn.
People brought him food and water anyway, though, just like if he'd been in jail.