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[Encrtia]

Over in the DF Questions forum, I started a thread in order to see about capturing a Megabeast that shoots webs, in a cage trap.

However, I've come to conclusion that I probably won't be able to do this via vanilla means. Is there anyway I can temporarily tweak something, or "cheat" to get a Megabeast that shoots webs into a cage/cage-trap?

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The Vanilla techniques currently used - http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169119.msg7667865#msg7667865. Couldn't figure out how to hyperlink text lmfao

[Toxicshadow]

You could try using the teleport script in dfhack, drop them onto a cage trap that isn't webbed and they should trigger the trap and be caged.

[Encrtia]

No, didn't work

[Nahere]

If you still have some king cobras left over you could add this to their venom:
[CE_REMOVE_TAG:NOSTUN:ABRUPT:START:0:END:100800], which should give you a season to cage it with a cave in dust trap.

[Encrtia]

No.. sadly I butchered them all bar a breeding pair (one day I'll drop them on invaders just for the lulz). I could breed them again, but will take about 5 years to get to reasonable size. (When they're babies, their tiny fangs couldn't even penetrate its hide)

So, I'm assuming that if I edit the creature raw for the King Cobra, I'll add this line somewhere near the end of that text file's "King Cobra" section, & thus from that day forward, all King Cobras will have an ability to inject a venom that'll remove the NOSTUN tag for 100800 ticks (a season)?

If that's the case, I'm hoping the paralysis will kick in anyway without the need for a laggy Cave-in. Hopefully their venom won't be that potent :p

[Novaris]

You can construct a prison for them

###        ' ' ... empty space
# #         # ... Wall
#F#         F ... fortification
#B#         B ... raising north bridge

And then just raise the bridge and teleport the beast in there. If it should shoot webs, lower the bridge and let it see an enemy, it should spray webs through the fortification. If not, just replace the fortification by a channel down where you remove the ramp.

###
# #       # ... Wall
#C#       C ... Channel
#B#       B ... raising north bridge

[Encrtia]

I had actually teleported the Forgotten Beast into a 1x1 Bridged room after Toxicshadow kindly made me aware of the command.

Though, I'd still like to get it into a cage, as opposed to a bunker. It's more for a Colosseum theme (+ minor FPS gain) than defence/silk farming; I'd also feel rather crummy if I just cheated a Forgotten Beast to defend with as opposed to in-game means, but thanks for sharing such insight

[hertggf]

I remember having done this by setting unit.counters.unconscious to > 0 while they're standing on a cage, but that was a while ago so no idea if it still works.