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[thegoatgod_pan]

I have two now, so far both untamed, both female, one significantly larger and stronger than the other. My first experiment with having them web cage traps for F.B. capture went badly (as in i had to get 5 dwarves and a goose out of cages).  I understand the design principle for containment, and pastures make it rather easy to get the spiders to shoot, but how the hell do you keep your dwarves from being captured? Should I tame one (maybe the named one, who killed many dwarves before we got her?)?

[EmperorJon]

By capturing you mean...? The GCSs are webbing your Dwarves...? Not sure if tamed ones web correctly, + one who has already killed Dwarves will have a Dwarf flesh fixation.

[thegoatgod_pan]

No I mean I have two caged giant cave spiders, I put one in a little fortification bunker in a strategic but not pathway location, put an armor stand in front, and some cage traps in a semi-circle 2 spaces away. then I pastured a goose near the armor stand.

Then I pulled a lever, the spider shot a bunch of webs, which I forbade. Then dwarves started freaking out and running into cage traps, so I got worried we were going to run out of active cages to recapture the spider, unlocked the spider's door and she landed in her own personal trap.

 And thus I was left with
a. the same (thankfully uninjured) spider,
b. several annoyingly caged dwarves,
c. No F.B. trap!

I heard tame spiders don't shoot webs unless attacked, but I'd probably use it as a frontliner, i just worry the webs would get my people too.

Also--flesh fixation?  As in once they're killers they'll always be hostile even if tame?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Also--flesh fixation?  As in once they're killers they'll always be hostile even if tame?

It will gladly chow down on your dwarves, who will think it's tame and do nothing to stop it.