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[twwolfe]

A recruit wrestled a kobold and, managed to knock him out on top of a cage trap. Now, I know a kobold that is not either fleeing, stealing a +Adamantine Goblet+, or dead is not exactly a common occurence, so what should i do with my Kobold in a cage?

[Demonic Spoon]

But it in the dining hall, your dwarves must know the enemy. Or alternatively throw him into a unescapable room with a very valuable item, he'll have a valuable item but won't be able to get away with it. 

[SkyRender]

Build him his own little palace, and construct his cage inside it.  Complete with many engravings of your Dwarves valiantly striking down his brethren.  Be sure to include all masterpiece items, and set up a stockpile in that room with your most valuable items in it, just to taunt the little blighter with the fact that he's stuck in a cage with all that wealth just outside his grasp.

[Calhoun]

You could always put him in a noble's room as a war prize, though be sure to attach a lever to the cage to make sure the kobold can't get out.

And of course, if he did happen to escape. It'd be pretty funny, i doubt he'd actually attack the noble. so the Noble would probably freak out until he starves/dies of dehydration/goes insane.

[Innominate]

Kobolds have [CAN_LEARN] and [MAXAGE:150:170], same as dwarves. Hence, this is my suggestion:

1. First of all, do not dump any weapons or armour he has. This makes the rest of the process easier.
2. Set the kobold up a cosy arena. Make sure you are able to drop enemies in periodically, and also that the kobold cannot break out. Recaging the kobold and putting in back in would be possible, but troublesome.
3. Drop the smallest enemies you can find in one by one, letting the kobold skill up and hoping that it doesn't get killed.* For best results, use groundhog or fox children; they'll be size 1. Although - and I haven't tested this - it's entirely possible that the kobold and a non-hostile sacrifice will just ignore each other and spend their time trying to escape.**
4. Once your kobold is powerful enough you will be able to sacrifice unruly dwarves or traders to it. A bridge to a trade depot over the arena can be retracted at the appropriate time.
5. Even if you don't have any particular use for a super-powerful kobold, having a world where the creature with the most kills is a kobold with a loincloth and a large copper dagger is pretty badass.

Ideally, the fort could then be ended and worldgen run (I think there's a way to do that, refresh my memory anyone?). See whether the kobold will kill any megabeasts.

*If small enemies (groundhog, fox, cat, rhesus macaque, found in order here) are for some reason unavailable or they take too long to raise his skills, you can have multiple drop zones of differing heights. Dwarven science results suggest that a 1z drop will never result in injury, while a 10z drop will kill everything (anybody know otherwise)? Though a word of caution: when you drop an elephant in 9z levels, hoping it will fall unconscious and give your kobold wrestling experience, if it falls on another creature (the kobold or even a kitten) it will take literally zero damage (same with the other creature). Then all you have is a pissed off elephant versus a very small kobold.

**If you provide a single door leading out of the arena and set it to be locked and pet-impassable, creatures should still attempt to path through it. This might lead to confrontations as they find themselves on the same tile.

[o_O[WTFace]]

-Arena... Who will win, 2 kobolds and 3 goblins or a skeletal triceratops?  My fort is going to find out once I breach the aquifer and start real excavation. 

-Noble executioner

-Spartan Elementary School... remove the kobos dagger and drop unneeded children in a 1x1 pit with it.  Either the kid gets a head start wrestling or you get some FPS improvement.  Consider dropping the kobalt 3-5 z levels first. 

-Bone crafts for the bone crafts god... either toss it onto a trap with lots of axes or discs, or uncage it infront of your champion hammerdorf.  Either way, one kobalt becomes a handful of bones that can each make 3 crafts. 

-Dining room decoration

-Unleash it upon the elves as a proxy soldier.  They might just stand around trying to path through stuff instead of fighting though. 

-Think of something even better!  Combine fire, glowing pits, cast obsidian, duels and z levels in a unique way.   

[Barrel Roll]

Is it possible to make a really badass steel dagger that he could use? Just drop it in his prison cell.

[bmaczero]

He won't pick it up.

[Karnewarrior]

use DC to make him your king/citizen/pet in thet order of preferability.

[Quantum Toast]

Set up his cage in the best rooms in the fortress. Let's see how traumatised the nobles are by those bedroom arrangements.

[LegoLord]

though be sure to attach a lever to the cage to make sure the kobold can't get out.

Wouldn't that open up a new way for the kobold to get out, rather than eliminate the non-existent escape method?

[CrossBolt]

edit it's raw file to make it godlike, enslave it then let it loose on those carp/elves/nobles/king/uristmcdwarf thats causing you problems

[Diablous]

though be sure to attach a lever to the cage to make sure the kobold can't get out.

Wouldn't that open up a new way for the kobold to get out, rather than eliminate the non-existent escape method?

*facepalm* That's the point. The lever is there so he can get out and kill the noble.

[Aspgren]

Build the cage outside.
Hook it up to a lever.
Go into it and tell your dwarves to dump his loincloth.
Release him and let him run back to mommy!

[Jetsquirrel]

why do these threads keep pop up? for example
-What to do with Goblins?
-What to do with Elves
-What to do with Orcs
-What to do with [Insert catched creature here]

srsly the search button might help
or better look at the thread called "What to do with caged goblins?"