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[OrionKale]

Alright, so I've started construction on a gigantic castle.

Everything's going great, but there are lungfish, seemingly flopping around on land.   Everywhere.
They're not anywhere near the stream, and they seem to be moving around like vermin. Are they vermin ?

[JoRo]

Yep, lungfish are vermin.

[smjjames]

Yes they are vermin and if you have them on your map, they'll eventually end up deep inside your fort, even nowhere near water sources. Nothing to worry about really.

[JAFANZ]

Of course, the ones floating around your map aren't the ones your fisherdorfs catch, but I think you can catch them if you assign someone Animal Trapping & get him to build animal traps around the place, after which they can presumably be added to menu.

[Hans Lemurson]

Is THAT what animal traps do? Catch vermin?  I'd been wondering.

[JAFANZ]

So sayeth the Wiki. (IOW, I make no claim to accuracy).

[Fayceless]

I had lungfish with my latest embark, but after a couple years they disappeared. Killed off by my cats, I guess.

[cyks]

Animal traps can only be built by dwarfs with trapping labor enabled.  In a kennel or butcher shop you can request that dwarf to catch a 'small land animal' and he/she will start wandering around with the trap and catch a vermin as it reappears.

Dwarfs in 40D loved the vermin, I couldn't even keep vermin long enough to move them without strict micro-management because dwarfs would eat them so fast.

[TheyTarget]

So sayeth the Wiki. (IOW, I make no claim to accuracy).

I've done it. A bunch. My cats still ate the vermin even after they were tame. But hey. It works. You need bait too. Dont use gems, I've never caught anything with it.

[Scaraban]

baiting traps w/ gems is designed to catch theiving animals like rhesus(es)es-es....
 

[Proteus]

baiting traps w/ gems is designed to catch theiving animals like rhesus(es)es-es....
 

Could this work with kobolds, too?

[Sphalerite]

You can't catch rhesus or kobolds in animal traps, only vermin.  Are their even any thieving vermin?

[K4el]

You can't catch rhesus or kobolds in animal traps, only vermin.  Are their even any thieving vermin?

shut up shut up shut up! don't give toady any ideas.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

You can't catch rhesus or kobolds in animal traps

1.Bait an animal trap with a gem and wall it off(Except for one entrance)
2.place a cage trap in the entrance to it
3.
4.PROFIT!

[Jayce]

Here is something you likely dont know,you can catch fish(river and sea) in those traps.