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Makbeth

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Trading caged creatures
« on: July 16, 2010, 02:03:00 pm »
Glad I discovered this with gorillas and not goblins.

Just for fun, I started laying out lines of cage traps outdoors.  There's lots of wandering apes at my site, and at the moment I seem to be capturing a few gorillas each month.

I can't butcher them without taming them, which by itself seems like a bug, so I decided to trade them instead.  After I designated them for trading I started getting spammed by job cancellations.  It turns out that my dwarfs were only trading the cages, and setting the gorillas free in the heart of my fortress.  Is this new to .31?  Is there a way to trade caged creatures?
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Re: Trading caged creatures
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2010, 02:13:08 pm »
This is a known bug that's been around a while.  If you try to sell a non-tame creature, the dwarves will take the cage to the trade depot and let the creature go.
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