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Or, utalising your current setup, leave the door locked unless you want to butcher some, leave it pet-locked until you have the cows you want to turn into McUrist Meals, and then pit any that got free.

Also, you can go ahead and cage all but one male - I'd save some extra in case your stud gets killed somehow, but otherwise you only need 1 male to impregnate any number of females.

Another thing you could try is build a sealed butchers shop next to the cow pit, pet-lock the butcher-fort and butcher-farm doors, designate animals for slaughter, and lock the butcher-fort door once your butcher crosses it. Although you can't run like this too long lest the meat rot, unless you get a hauler, tanner, and food stockpile in there too.

Well, this is a bummer.

Have him caged, but he doesn't appear as tamable when I select "Tame a Large Animal".

Ah, well. At least I can keep him as a dinner table oddity.

Glad to hear the smoke bomb worked.

I just took a peak at the wiki, and it says alligators are [per_exotic], so you'll have to wait for a Dungeon Master to tame it.

I think you did. You tamed him, didn't you? Tamed animals don't trigger traps, but animals -with a name they got because they killed something and before they were tamed- will never stop killing your dwarves. So you either have to knock him unconscious on a cage trap to trap him, or kill him.

He hasn't even caught the critter in the first place, how could he tame it?

Also, the named critters being untamable is the result of dwarves/wardogs/etc. it hurt while wild remembering his hostile status and attacking, with the animal defending itself. If the critter hasn't harmed your dwarves or their animals, there should be no hazard to taming named creatures.


If he's trap-immune, you could try and build an enclosure of two tiles, two doors, and 8 constructed walls, like so;


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┼^^┼
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One cage trap, one single upright wooden spike trap. The idea being you poke him with the spike every now and then in the hope you'll do just enough damage that he falls unconscious while on the trap.

Alternatively:

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▼+..+.
......
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......

Z+0, ground level
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+┼^^┼+
+╚══╝+
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You build the wall with grates in the middle, build a ramp up, then a floor section above the corner, and another left of that, and finally a constructed wall. Both traps in the enclosure are cage traps. Then, once the critter is trapped inside the enclosure, deconstruct the second floor, dropping the constructed wall(setup insures the dwarf won't be standing on a part that will collapse if you do it right) - this should kick up dust that can knock dwarves, and hopefully animals, unconscious, and as your critter only has cage traps to stand on... 


...or just lure him into an enclosure and leave him there with locked doors.

You must be new to the internet if you think no response in an hour is at all abnormal.

Expect to wait hours, if not days.

Ramp's. they remove the floor and tile above them. Just be careful: if there's a tree or smoothing that can't be removed, the floor stays. so unsuspended floors can happen. And then collapse on your dwarves. killing them instantly.

Also, you'd probably be left with ramps sitting in open fields where bits were isolated befor being carved, so you might want to channel the last level out.

And expect a frakton of stone. Good training, but then I turned a 4-5 level mountainside into a cliff for defence purposes, it generated, oh, probably 8000+ stone. Your project sounds alot larger.

But it doesn't give back seeds

This is why I brew, then cook, my food-crops. I gets to keeps me seedses and don't have to worry about them attritioning away when I'm not looking.

Whats really interesting is the request for elephant cookies in the comments.

 Now somebody needs to request cat cookies to make it complete.

Or better yet, Kitten Kookies!! 

Did you enable Dwarves Collect Outdoor Refuse, or whatever it's called, from the Orders -> Refuse menu? It's set to ignore by default, and corpses count as refuse.

Alternatively, start a dwarfy adventurer on a quest to kill him and avenge his fallen cousins of Dreamdikes.


Also, do note if you start a fort on their tower that a reclaim will clear the site, so back up your save if you opt to lay siege and, say, spawn atop a tower or something equally suicidal.

Not sure what abandon will do, if anything, if you revisit as an adventurer/etc. and don't reclaim.