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Author Topic: Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?  (Read 1160 times)

Nasikabatrachus

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Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?
« on: April 21, 2011, 07:58:41 pm »
So, according to the wiki, the way to keep Urist McSuicide from reloading a cage trap in a dangerous situation is to forbid the trap. Okay, then...

How?

I tried forbidding the cage--no luck. There doesn't appear to be any way to actually forbid the cage trap. So what does one do?
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Re: Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 08:02:19 pm »
[t] it and forbid whatever mechanism you used to build over it.
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Re: Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 08:02:53 pm »
Quote from: Nasikabatrachus on April 21, 2011, 07:58:41 pm
So, according to the wiki, the way to keep Urist McSuicide from reloading a cage trap in a dangerous situation is to forbid the trap. Okay, then...

How?

I tried forbidding the cage--no luck. There doesn't appear to be any way to actually forbid the cage trap. So what does one do?

Either 't' and then forbid the Mechanism in the Cage-Trap, or just bulk-forbid the whole tile with 'd' - 'b' - 'f'. Either one works.
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Re: Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2011, 08:10:46 pm »
Thanks. Even after playing this game for months I forget how obtuse it can be.
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Re: Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 08:17:58 pm »
Or use burrows + military alerts.  Mechanics will not leave the set of active burrows to reload anything. 

Which requires that you setup burrows (I procrastinate until the first ambush) and use the military alerts screen to turn the alert on when an ambush/siege happens.
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Re: Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2011, 08:21:15 pm »
Quote from: wuphonsreach on April 21, 2011, 08:17:58 pm
Or use burrows + military alerts.  Mechanics will not leave the set of active burrows to reload anything. 

This works, but it still generates reloading jobs which immediately get cancelled... resulting in message-spam about "Cancels task, forbidden area".

Better to just forbid the filled Cage and the trap Mechanism, so no jobs are generated in the first place.
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Re: Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2011, 08:32:53 pm »
You could also put a door between wherever the alert burrow is and the traps, and lock it. Unlike burrows, they won't be trying and failing a job continuously.
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Re: Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2011, 11:32:25 pm »
Actually they work just like magnets.
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Re: Effin Cage Traps, How do they work?
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2011, 07:47:30 am »
Quote from: elf-fondling human on April 21, 2011, 11:32:25 pm
Actually they work just like magnets.

Effin' magnets, how do they work?

It has been known to gobbos/elves/humans that the dwarven cage trap is the greatest anti-intruder trap, provided you do not have the [TRAPAVOID] tag.

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