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[Jakob]

Hey it is me again, I wanted to make an arena for those several goblin POW's and badgers I have caged up and I was wondering how I would go about doing so. Can some one describe how to get the cages in the right spot, how to disarm the enemies and how to have enemies fight each other? I found some things on the wiki but I did not understand them. Thanks.

[Rex Tyrannus]

assuming you have baddies in a cage trap...


• build your arena space
  
• place the occupied cages in there by (b)uilding a ca(g)e
  
• select the appropriate cage by changing the view (either X or tab, can't remember) so that you see each cage, rather than grouped by material
  
• repeat for as many enemies as you like
  
• build a lever (probably outside your arena)
  
• link each cage to the lever using (q), finding the lever, and (a)dding a task. select cage with (j). It'll take two mechanisms
  
• keep track of which enemies you've selected as it doesn't remove the cage from the list
  

when done, pull lever by adding a task, the (P) the lever. Have fun.

[Fredd]

To disarm them, unless you have tinkered with the forbid menu, is to go to your animal stockpile, where the caged gobbos are stored. Mass claim all the cages. This unforbids their armor,weapons, and clothing. Then Mass dump the cages. Nowwww, individually remove the dump tag from the cages. When these orders sink into their thick skulls, they will go dump their weapons, armor, and clothing, leaving the gobbos inside the cages.
 That was the quicky technique. You can remove forbid tag in stock menu for gobbo looking stuff, dwarves will go store the junk in stockpiles. The mass dump technique will allow you to go visit the garbage dump, and reclaim things for melting, or for use by dwarves,(weapons, ammo, whatever.

[Lexx]

Make a raised meeting area with chairs for the public to watch around it. Eventually it will deaden their reactions to violence and they wont care if it happens.

[billw]

Make a raised meeting area with chairs for the public to watch around it. Eventually it will deaden their reactions to violence and they wont care if it happens.

Is this true or a joke?! Cos if its true then that is awesome. I always make an arena with a viewing gallery, but only for aesthetics. If it actually has game play impact then that is awesome!

[Lexx]

Truth! First they will run away seeing the creature there. But the more violence they are exposed to eventually they wont care about anything. It can be a useful tool to prevent tantrum spirals in larger forts. Of course if you don't mind your dorfs potentially becoming emotionally crippled.

[Jakob]

Well what of they fall in?

[Lexx]

If your worried about them falling in build glass windows around the edge of your fighting arena. For me I would find it entertaining if that happened .

[GreatWyrmGold]

An arena? Elf. Drop the gobbos into your meeting hall from 20-30 z-levels up. Cripple next siege with -goblin bone bolts-. Repeat.

[Lexx]

An arena? Elf. Drop the gobbos into your meeting hall from 20-30 z-levels up. Cripple next siege with -goblin bone bolts-. Repeat.

There's nothing Elf-like about pitting your prisoners to fight minotaurs and as practice for the militia .