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It didn't work, but I like your extract idea. Perhaps I could make a metal bar of 'weed extract' from each leaf, and smelt ten of those into iron.

Well, my guys won't render OR cook it, bu thanks anyway.

That was the setup I had, so the wolf I had chained up was certain to scare off any kobolds I bumped into. It doesn't matter too much now anyway.

The end result was 'enough wolf, not nearly enough traps'

My fortress basically got disemboweled by goblin raiders with crossbows. Loosing is fun. I've not done many games where I've gotten as far as goblin raiders, mostly because I don't enjoy hectic combat too much.

Thanks for your help guys, anyway.

It's in the matgloss_plant.txt file.

So you're saying i'd need

[REAGENT:10:PLANT:NO_SUBTYPE:xxx]

where xxx is the numerical id of my plant then? DF counters seem to start with one.

With the problem about barrels and other such bits I'm about giving up on this though, it was a nice idea.

Okay, I have two things.

One, a mess of kobolds, two, a caged fire imp.

I've so far lost one gem and a roll of thread to them, but I've now got a wolf chained up and lying in wait for them. The problem is, they bump into the wolf, get bitten maybe once and then run off. I want to capture the little sods and make them see the errors of their ways.

My plan is to have a pit beneath my entrance divided into two sections. The first section is where the kobolds end up, and the second section is home to the imp, who obey his instincts and fireballs them for my amusement.

However I have two problems. The first is how to contain the imp safely and allow him to fireball things. I'm willing to risk a cage and a dwarf in the initial setting up, but will chaining him up still let him throw his balls of fire? Or will the dwarf set to chain him just run away and let him mill about on his own? Alternatively, can he shoot over fortifications?

My second problem, which I really need to solve before the first is a means of catching the little beggars. Cage traps are out, obviously, so my next stop was a grate and a pressure plate.

Could someone give me some hints as to how to use these properly? I set one up with a max and min of 5 (kobolds) and to activate for creatures and not my own. But I'm not sure where to position the pit in relation to the plate (It's just outside of a doorway), and the one kobold I did see dash over it didn't look like he triggered it.

Just to note, I'm willing to experiment with the imp and report back, what I really need help with is dropping kobolds into pits.

I am working on an alternative source of iron. This was just to see how possible it was, and I think it almost is. The basis of it is growing plants that are eventually smelted in a reasonable quantity to produce a bar.

Here is the plant and reaction. It's not available to dwarves directly, as it is a surface plant. I was playing humans though so I was able to buy it.

I bought it, grew it and brewed it.

[MATGLOSS_PLANT:WEED_IRON]
[TILE:'i'][COLOR:0:0:1]
[NAME:iron weed][NAME_PLURAL:iron weeds]
[VALUE:2]
[DRINK:iron brew:0:0:1]
[DRINKVALUE:2]
[SEED:4:0:1]
[GENPOWER:2]
[AUTUMN][WINTER]
[FREQUENCY:100]
[CLUSTERSIZE:5]
[BIOME:NOT_FREEZING]
[PREFSTRING:hard leaves]
[WET][DRY]

[REACTION:WEED_IRON_MAKING]
[NAME:make iron bars from weed]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:10:PLANT:NO_SUBTYPE:WEED_IRON:PLANT]
[PRODUCT:100:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:IRON]
[FUEL]

The plant obviously works, I've not really been able to test being able to find it in the wild yet, but the biome is pretty broad.

Something is wrong with the REAGENT line of the reaction, it doesn't show up on my smelter and that was the best approximation I could come up with. Any help would be appriciated.

Sweet, you could make iron worms or something