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hmm, I didn't know assigning to pit didn't work.  If you can't assign them to a pit then you may not even be able to assign them to another cage.  If you could at least do that, then you could put them all in one cage and use mechanisms.

Sounds like dodge traps are the way to go.

just scatter a bunch of cage traps around on the surface and you'll get some within a few years.  I catch eagles this way and they're not even vermin hunters.  No need to do anything special really.

biggest problem with building a tower is you can't construct 20 z-levels of a up-down staircase at once.

a wall forms a walkable floor above it.  This is not a constructed floor.
Only one construction can be in a tile at once.
You cannot build a wall on top of a constructed floor.  You must remove the floor and place the wall either above empty space, on a natural floor, or on the floor formed by a construction beneath it.
If you're building a tower, you build floor tiles over the empty spaces, then build walls on top of the walkable-but-not-constructed floor formed by the walls below.

MAking a water source zone around open water seems to have solved it. The water is like ten pixels away from the well, but now I'm not getting any of the job cancellations. I never would've thought the well didn't count as a water source.

When you put it this way it sounds like you built the well next to the water instead of above it...

Quote from: Garath on April 29, 2013, 04:48:00 am

Using a third party program to fix bugs when they appear (when, not if) is not what I'd consider cheating, unless you use the same program to create entire magnetite layers

The problem is this: that is exactly what I would do.

Third-party programs: not even once.

lol.  And don't forget in Therapist its possible to accidentally enable labors for children and nobles.

this is pretty common.  A small squad of elite soldiers can defend siege after siege (maybe not once 2013 is released though, as dodging and blocking may be toned down a bit).  Ideally you would have multiple squads with barracks stationed in various places, and you would have marksdwarves along the walls.  With leather, wood, and some walls, you can have a good chunk of your civvie population lugging a crossbow around in their spare time, and a hail of bolt fire will injure/slow a gobbo squad pretty well.  You can put squads on the walls and send out melee troops to clean up squads you've softened, or you can assemble the melee squads inside the front gate with archers behind them, which is also quite effective.  Beware elite bowgoblins, they will destroy your archers.

ok, so if you have a wild and tamable egg-layer, if you put the nest box inside the pasture/training zone, and assign a skilled trainer nearly full time, then can the tame creature claim a nest box, and can it have its training updated so it doesn't go wild without interrupting the nesting behavior?   How do you prevent eggs from being collected?  Do you burrow the trainer with the animal zone and lock him in for months?  or use burrows to prevent food haulers from taking the eggs?