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For a reloadable one-shot that uses up a mechanism I have opted to prefer cage traps. 

It is a way to use up rocks, and they are quick to build.  But you need lines of them, lots of lines of them... And then a single goblin leader dodge triggers them all in passing.  I think if they reset like weapon traps (even with a long reset time like days) I'd like them more.  But in the current format it's a lot of maintenance for relatively little pop compared to a cage trap, weapon trap, or spikes.

There's a draw-back to cage traps.  Actually, about a dozen million drawbacks to cage traps and they are all monkeys.

Bonobos.  Chimpanzees.  Gorillas.  Bilou.  Siamangs.  Seven different flavors of gibbon.  Not even getting into the giraffes and elephants and warthogs and rhinos, which are useful but also tend to appear in massive, hard-to-process herds.

I don't know why I keep settling in savage moist tropical broadleaf forests.  It's probably some kind of latent masochism.

You can't grow anything in certain areas, like mountains.

I've noticed this too.  My fort's next to an ocean; I've cleared out large underground spaces in the soil layers for pastures, but nothing grows on the yellow beach sand.  One chamber is half-beach and half sandy clay, and even in year two, not a single plant's grown in the yellow sand, while the clay is sprouting trees, plants, and moss.

I decided to fill it with monkeys instead.

He finally stopped collecting silk, but won't pick up anything else.  Dammit.  I really want to see what he'd make, if he didn't go loony toons...

Sounds like he's making a mattress.

Maybe that explains it...  dwarf beds being solid logs; he knows making something comfy to sleep on would be a sin against Armok and he just can't bring himself to commit the atrocity.

This is odd--forbade all the cloth he'd claimed and tasked in the clothier's workshop, then unforbade--and he ignored it.  Deconstructed the dyers' workshop and he bolted for the cloth that had been inside them instead.  Hunh.

ETA - Forbade his newly-picked cloth, and he ignored it and didn't grab any more...  In my experience, if a moody dwarf is stalled in a workshop, he'll instantly re-grab any materials once unforbidden.

Just "I must have rock!"

Or he was.  Never did bother picking any up and now he's gone insane.  At least he's not berserk/wasn't important.  I think he's wandered off to go play with a GSC...  maybe I'll get some silk out of this. 

Thanks for the suggestions...  I guess we'll never know.

Screaming "I must have silk cloth!" and "I must have rock!"; generic fey mood.

And the hangup has to be the rock; he hasn't snaffled every piece of silk in the fort.  Unless he wants GCS silk or something...

ETA and there is a wide variety of unforbidden metals to pick from, too  :|

First mood; clothier with the fifth wave of immigrants.

He's claimed a workshop; the material the workshop's built out of isn't forbidden; he's collected 18 (!?) pieces of silk cloth, but there is more available; he's not assigned to a burrow but I believe there was a military alert on when he mooded; he's demanding rock.

There are scads of stone about, but no rock salt (which he likes).  Thoughts?  =\

[ETA] I am not sure which of these measures did the trick, but here is what I did:  Deleted all the burrows.  Made cloth and stone stockpiles next to the claimed workshop.  Made a new burrow, encompassing the workshop and new stockpiles.  Assigned moody dwarf to burrow, and when he STILL wouldn't start constructing, I put the whole stupid fort on military alert in that burrow and dumped and reclaimed the stone/silk.  He got crackin', using three pieces of cloth and a hunk of rock.