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[The Architect]

My woodcrafter stops working when ever I tell him to make wooden cages. If I delete the cages and add other things he will make them. When ever a cage is the next thing, he stops.
Any ideas?

You mean a carpenter, not a woodcrafter, right? Wood cages are made by a carpenter at a carpenter's workshop, not by woodcrafters at a craftsdwarf's shop. I don't know of anything that would make a carpenter not make cages, but if you're trying to designate them through the manager and you've only got a woodcrafter, you simply don't have the right labor.

Otherwise, no idea 

Traps are made by dwarves with the Trapping skill, no matter what workshop they are made in. You are probably giving an order for Animal Traps, not Cages.

[vorpal+5]

This game is frustrating at time... 

I have idle haulers and they don't want to transfer blocks from a stockpile to another. The target stockpile is supposed to take all kind of stone blocks from the first, and they don't do anything. What can possibly prevent them from doing so?

item hauling job enabled, can go outdoor, path is ok, I checked the settings of the receiving stockpile. 

[DFPongo]

Thanks for the help with Cages and traps guys.
I am trying to make cages or animal traps with a carpenter at a woodworking shop.  I think in dwarf manager I must have turned off either trapping on my carpenter or something like that. I will look tonight.

[The Architect]

Could be a problem with bins.

[vorpal+5]

I can try that (adding more spare bins)

1. Just encountered an issue... I want to dump my animals into a pit... But when I do that in batch (i.e not all selected at the same time), how can I know which ones are already in the pit and which ones are still available?

2. bonus question, should flood gate not disappear from sight when opened? I have one doing that, when I pull the lever, but two others still shown on map, so I'm very unsure on their state... How can I know btw which state they have, closed or open?

[DDR]

Floodgates, doors, floorhatches: Invisible when open. If you can see it, it's closed.

[Steev]

So I had the fortune/misfortune of finding an underground pool whilst digging for HFS, while digging an Up/Down stair. So now I have a section of my fortress flooding with water, but luckily I managed to seal the section with a wall and get all the dorfs on the safe side, even the miner that caused all of this, but the forge and the platinum bars weren't so lucky.

Will the water eventually stop or will I have to dig a large enough area to fit all the water before I can regain that section of my fortress?

And whats the best way to find fun stuff without breaking into the clown car?

[Malicus]

A tip...  you really should avoid doing any sort of exploratory mining from the bottom up, because when digging up, you can't tell what's up there until you actually dig into it.  This can cause all sorts of problems, as you can see.

An underground pool has a finite amount of water and doesn't refill, so there IS an end to the water from it, which means you could theoretically manage to pump it all out.  An underground river does not run out of water, though.  Both of them have unfriendly water-dwelling creatures that you may have to deal with.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As for fun stuff...  well, you shouldn't have to worry at all about breaking into it as long as you are NOT digging up.  (You could theoretically break into it when digging DOWN, but you should encounter the circus peanuts first.)

[The Architect]

As for fun stuff...  well, you shouldn't have to worry at all about breaking into it as long as you are NOT digging up.

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The rest of what you said was good sound advice, but I don't see what you are talking about here. Fun stuff occurs at the bottom levels, so digging downward is what you would want to avoid. The bottom 5 or so levels, if you want to be fairly safe.

[Malicus]

Eh, I've never really actually dealt with it.  I can never keep my attention on a fort long enough to get it to a point where I'd want to deal with such stuff, so I avoid it in my embarks.

[The Architect]

You ought to avoid giving advice and information about it, then, since it was incorrect. It's best just not to try to tell people about things you don't actually know about.

[Malicus]

Perhaps.  But I mostly wasn't really thinking when I was typing.  I read through the rest of this thread, though, so I'm getting out of this particular discussion now.

[nickbii]

I thought I had a virtually impenetrable fortress. Then a Kobold stole a legendary item and a gobbo made off with a baby. Here's a screenshot of the only entrance:

Under the bridge there's a dry moat. Just above the bridge there's a hill, but I destroyed all the ramps on it so it should not be possible for thieves to come in from there. Those 9 down stairs are the only entrance to the underground part of the fortress. The animals around it are caged, but I thought they'd alert me to intruders.

What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?

Nick

[Flaede]

you need to chain the animals. caged isn't for being a guard dog. Caged is so you can connect it to a lever and "release the hounds" on command. (and that they'll stay safe inside until you do)

[Malicus]

I don't think caged animals alert you to intruders, though I could be wrong.  I always put my guard animals on chains/ropes.  I can't tell if there are any other problems from that screenshot.  Maybe there's some opening not in that screenshot that you missed, as well.  You could put your map on the DF Map Archive if you want people to be able to look through it more easily.