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[Azzamean]

Hi,

I'm trying to mass pit my hostiles in cages.

I channeled out 10 Z-Levels. On the top level I created a floor with holes. I covered up those holes with floor hatches.
I then put an animal stockpile around those floor hatches and then zoned the 6 floor hatches. I have a 6 Zone pit with goblins in cages around.

Whenever I try to assign those cages to the pit, nothing happens. None of the dwarves move the cages? I am currently being seiged but I have closed off the fort.

I can't figure out why none of the dwaves are moving the cages. There are 50 idles dwarves so there must be another reason?

[kardwill]

Did you put the zone only on top of the hatch?
If it is the case, it won't work : The zone needs to include the place the dwarf will stand on. So, it must at least be 2 squares : the pit, and one floor near it where the dwarf will stand.
I usually design the whole room (with all it's hatches) as a pitting zone : this way, the dwarf gets the goblin, and throw it in the nearest hole.
If you design several pitting zones, you risk having a dwarf take a faraway goblin, and drag it to your hatch ; The mass-pitting rooms are designed purposefully to minimize this, by having each cage near a hatch, and letting the dwarf choose the nearest one.

[Azzamean]

I tried to zone the entire room and it doesn't do anything =/

I have a door outside (unlocked), 6 floor hatches, zoned the entire room as a Pit. Then tried to assign.

Here is the room:

[Azzamean]

Ok this is really weird, after the siege I turned off my citizen alert. And the dwarves started filling up my stockpile with more cages. And then it started to work!

I checked my burrows and they could indeed get into the stockpile and pit during this peroid.

Is it possible that during citizen alerts that they do not dump cages?