Vermin with can break free from wooden animal traps. For hateable vermin, it is recommended to have an installed cage in a faraway place, to reduce the chance of passing dwarves getting unhappy thoughts. You can remove a vermin from the trap (thus freeing the trap for reuse) by assigning it to an installed cage. After taming it, a dwarf will haul the animal trap containing the now-tamed vermin back to an animal stockpile. A dwarf with animal training enabled will take a trap containing an untamed vermin to the kennel and train it with food.

To tame one, go to a kennel and select t. Caught vermin are viewable in the animal status screen. Marking it for dumping will send it to a nearby garbage dump, and once dumped, it will disappear back to the wild. A caught vermin is treated as if it were an item. When a vermin is caught, the trap containing the vermin will be brought to an animal stockpile which accepts vermin of that type by a dwarf with the animal hauling labor enabled. The disadvantage is that built traps require bait to function, and you cannot set baited traps underwater to capture aquatic vermin (though it should be possible to place the animal traps on the surface of the water ). It also allows trappers to perform other tasks while the trap is set up. The main advantage of building an animal trap over using a kennel or butcher's shop is the ability to specify the location or biome. If the bait is left for too long, it will begin to rot, and the building must be removed to prevent miasma. Make sure to build the trap in an area with available vermin, otherwise the trap will be unable to capture anything.

A trap with caught vermin will automatically be slated for removal, and subsequently be hauled back to a stockpile. When it successfully captures (or fails to capture) a vermin, the game will pause and make an announcement. A baited animal trap flashes between the trap and bait symbols. When a bait is selected, trapper will automatically go and bait the trap (you cannot remove the bait afterwards). Press q and hover over a placed trap to select its bait type, or press z to deselect the bait. After the trap is placed, it must be baited with fish or meat (the 'large gem' option is useless at the moment). You may want to put the task on high priority so that fisherdwarves will prioritize the task over regular fishing.Īnimal traps can also be built next to any walkable tile by going to the build menu and pressing m.

(Only catching cave spiders? Put the stockpile outside.) Or, to catch vermin in water, order the task 'Capture a Live Fish' from a fishery ( q- f) - a fisherdwarf will then take a trap and capture an aquatic vermin from a fishing zone (that has available fish to catch). A trapper will grab an available animal trap and begin to pursue and capture wild vermin from there. To catch vermin on land, order the task 'Capture a Live Land Animal' from a kennel or butcher's shop ( q- a). To set the pile to accept only empty traps, go to its settings and block all items, then j to enable empty animal traps. Like cages, animal traps are stored in an animal stockpile. To capture creature-sized animals, a cage is required. Animal traps are unrelated to other traps. An animal trap can be made from wood or metal. They are created at a carpenter's workshop with 1 log, or a metalsmith's forge (in the Furniture menu) with 1 bar, by a dwarf with the trapping labor enabled. An animal trap is furniture used to catch live vermin.

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