Monsters/animals/prisoners in cages

[Ranger]

How do I kill these things in cages cuz there's no way I'm letting out this monster to kill my entire fort I was thinking of just throwing it in a river or maybe just drowning him with a floodgate or something but if anybody knows a simpler way please tell me

[Pseudok]

You can wall off your fort, place the cage outside with a lever attached and kill invading force instead. Or elves.

If you're feeling fancy you might want to make a set-up that eventually re-captures the beast so you can continue harassing elves.

Or capture two beasts, make an arena and do some kaiju battles instead.

[Soul4hdwn]

archers can fire from above, although you'll have to design thier firing spots so that the targets can't climb to them.

[Bean]

Cages might still make their prisoners immortal so you might need to get creative, but if the creature is not sapient like a goblin, your butcher and butcher even a dragon just fine

[Ravenskysong]

weird question but is there a reason you want to kill them? I have a caged werebeast stockpile. but if you actually want to kill them set up the cage to a lever and make it so that within that space the only place they can walk on are bridges that retract with a big old pit under it. then after you let them out of cage pull the lever and drop em down.

[Tablescraps]

You can hook a lever up to the cage and release the prisoner remotely. So you could make a gladiator arena, or put them in a drowning chamber, or unleash it on the next siege. Lots of options.

[Ranger]

I want to kill it because it's a two-headed humanoid giant and have nobody that can even fight so looking at this guy scares the poop out of me I was lucky enough he stepped on my pressure trap cage thing right outside my drawbridge

[The Trashman]

Originally posted by Ranger:

I want to kill it because it's a two-headed humanoid giant and have nobody that can even fight so looking at this guy scares the poop out of me I was lucky enough he stepped on my pressure trap cage thing right outside my drawbridge

Put his cage outside by the bridge, link it up to a lever inside and then if a goblin army shows up let them deal with him!

You could also build the cage in a walled off room with fortifications and use him for target pactice

[ddblue0]

Dumb question but specifically *how* do I link a lever to a built cage?

[Erei]

Originally posted by ddblue0:

Dumb question but specifically *how* do I link a lever to a built cage?

Click on lever, pick "link" and select the cage. The cage need to be built, they are in "restraint"->cage, and "choose material" so you can pick the specific one.

You cna also dump the cage itself (magma, atom smasher, you chose).

[Ranger]

Well I have tried to move the monster I just caught until now and apparently it's glitched out and everybody who's assigned to try to move it cannot get to it it says when literally it's not closed off nor is it forbidden behind the door grrrr had to start a whole new fort because of that what a bummer but at least I learned