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[Imminent]

Is it possible to modify the raws to increase an attribute cap beyond 5000?

[UristMcDonald]

I am breeding wild animals. Will having a bunch of wild animals in a pit prevent more from spawning?

[i2amroy]

My brain just exploded.
This changes everything.  No more big three tile wide holes needed...

At least not right now, hopefully traders get fixed eventually.

I am breeding wild animals. Will having a bunch of wild animals in a pit prevent more from spawning?

If too many animals are crammed into a small space they will start to lash out at one another, potentially killing other animals. Other than that though there is no limit.

[Tirion]

I'm thinking about luring in Kobold sieges. I've read they have to successfully steal lots of stuff for that. Question is, is it the quantity or the monetary value that matters? In other words, if I make a stockpile outside my walls stuffed with items I don't need and they are welcome to steal, should it be a dumping place of all low-quality crafts, or just one masterwork blue peahen egg roast?

[rhesusmacabre]

I'm pretty sure it's just value, although they just send ambushes rather than whole sieges. I've had them steal a single artifact before and have it be enough. (I'd just had a tantrum spiral and was down to just three dwarves, so the thief had no problems.)

[Table Turning]

Apparently, this goblin snatcher that was just caught in one of my foward cage traps is a "Master" thief.

Does this mean anything in terms of gameplay?  Is he the ultimate goblin pedophile snatcher?

[Sovereign]

I want to create a world with lots of cotton candy, someone knows a thread floating around by chance? 

[Tirion]

Apparently, this goblin snatcher that was just caught in one of my foward cage traps is a "Master" thief.

Does this mean anything in terms of gameplay?  Is he the ultimate goblin pedophile snatcher?

He looks like a ninja with Phoebus graphics    And I guess he's better at getting out of the cage when my dorfs mass-pit him, based on my little experience. If disarmed, he'll be carved up just fine by any military or war animals.

[Sphalerite]

I am breeding wild animals. Will having a bunch of wild animals in a pit prevent more from spawning?

Yes.  There is a limit to the number of groups of wild animals which can be on the map at once, and until all members of a group of animals leave the map no new group will spawn to replace them.  If you're breeding wild animals in a pit, that counts against the limit, and new ones won't appear on the map edge.

If too many animals are crammed into a small space they will start to lash out at one another, potentially killing other animals. Other than that though there is no limit.

Actually, only tame animals fight each other when confined.  You can have any number of wild animals crammed into a single tile and they won't fight each other.

[FrisianDude]

Is there some sort of script which makes masons stick to certain subject in making their statues? Because my stoneworker has made six statues now, four of which were of Spos the Grumbling Troll wandering the The Folded Swamp in a time before time. And one of the engravings he's made is of the same Spos. (The other statues were of Ice Wolves and one of my manager being surrounded by toads, naturally.)

[i2amroy]

Apparently, this goblin snatcher that was just caught in one of my foward cage traps is a "Master" thief.

Does this mean anything in terms of gameplay?  Is he the ultimate goblin pedophile snatcher?

Nope, its just a term that tends to be applied to goblin snatchers.

[FuzzyZergling]

Is there some sort of script which makes masons stick to certain subject in making their statues? Because my stoneworker has made six statues now, four of which were of Spos the Grumbling Troll wandering the The Folded Swamp in a time before time. And one of the engravings he's made is of the same Spos. (The other statues were of Ice Wolves and one of my manager being surrounded by toads, naturally.)

Engravings/statues/images and the like draw from the history of the site your fortress is a part of.
So that means that Spos wandering The Folded Swamp is one of very few events that have happened in The Folded Swamp, the settling of your fortress and appointment of nobles being other notable events.

[agvkrioni]

How does one disarm a caged goblin prisoner?

[FuzzyZergling]

How does one disarm a caged goblin prisoner?

[d]->[ b ]->[c] to claim the cage's contents, then [d]->[ b ]->[d] to dump the tile.
Remember to either claim the cage itself, or build it first to keep the dwarves from dumping it.

[agvkrioni]

Why would I initiate a dump? So they go and grab the contents to remove it? I should get rid of that garbage-dump-over-magma zone first.