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[CT]

What should I do with them...after getting my secretive mood problems sorted out, I got goblin rushed by 3 snatchers....who all ran straight into traps...*sigh* silly pathing. So what should I do with them? I ask the forums because as a whole they are infinitely more cruel than I. I do not have Magma yet sadly, But I am working on it....I do have water though...and wild horses.

[Teneb]

Snatchers (remember to confiscate the equipment first) + Horse + 1x1 pit = possible death for the goblins. If that doesn't work, swap the horse with a badger. Rember to desing a way to clean said pit afterwards. For added gore, place a weapon trap with wood/metal spears/spikes. If you go with that, use water to clean it, and then make said bloodied water flow into your dining hall or some other place of your choosing.

Magma is always a better option, of course. Remember: if you can't get the magma to go to the goblins, you can get the goblins to go to the magma.

EDIT: corrected typo

[Stil]

I always like building pits - just deep enough to break bones but never enough to kill outright. Then I let the gobbos crawl around and live out their lives in agony - until I want to farm silk or train my markdwarves that is. Add upright spikes for extra cruelty ;P

[Corneria]

Snatchers (remember to confiscate the equipment first) + Horse + 1x1 pit = possible death for the goblins. If that doesn't work, swap the horse with a badger. Rember to desing a way to clean said pit afterwards. For added gore, place a weapon trap with wood/metal spears/spikes. If you go with that, use water to clean it, and then make said bloodied water flow into your dining hall or some other place of your choosing.

Magma is always a better option, of course. Remember: if you can't get the magma to go to the goblins, you can get the goblins to go to the magma.

EDIT: corrected typo

CLEAN your death pit? Are you sure you are a dwarf?

[Urist Da Vinci]

make an arena for the goblins to fight soldiers.

disarm the gobbos, then give the soldiers training weapons.

2 effects: 1: a slow painful gobbo death. 2: a lot of fast training for your military.

This. Captured goblins are Pinatas full of XP for your military to crack open.

[nanomage]

you can also toss them off 12-z level cliff to have otherwise unobtainable goblin bones.
Goblin bones are good because they are small and thus do not clutter workshops like cattle bones.
It's also awesome to have a moody dwarf make something from that stuff.

Remember that thieves usually break free and flee when you choose to pit or recage them.
Only if they get into a cage trap again after they fled, your dwarves can drag them to pits safely.

[crekit]

You can just build the cage somewhere right? Put it in a room, lock the door (with some mechanism thing, they can lock pick), carve fortifications and train marksdwarves. Or test too see if that danger room with wooden serrated disks instead of training spears is too deadly.

[CT]

Well damn, Before I could do anything with them a siege of white tigermen attacked so now i have 3 gobbos and 8? tigermen

[Teneb]

Snatchers (remember to confiscate the equipment first) + Horse + 1x1 pit = possible death for the goblins. If that doesn't work, swap the horse with a badger. Rember to desing a way to clean said pit afterwards. For added gore, place a weapon trap with wood/metal spears/spikes. If you go with that, use water to clean it, and then make said bloodied water flow into your dining hall or some other place of your choosing.

Magma is always a better option, of course. Remember: if you can't get the magma to go to the goblins, you can get the goblins to go to the magma.

EDIT: corrected typo

CLEAN your death pit? Are you sure you are a dwarf?

I like to have tanks filled with bloody water. Cleaning the death pit is an unfortunate side-effect caused when you collect the blood.

[ledgekindred]

I combine the pit drop with the military training.  I build the animal storage about 4 floors above the barracks and channel down through the intervening floors.  Then when I catch gobbos I chuck 'em down the pit, which is just far enough that they get at least stunned, if not break stuff, then watch my military leap on top of this magically-appearing, stunned gobbo and beat the tar out of him mafia style.