stop agitated animal

[teoleo]

i have several agitated animal, how i stop it?
How i can forbid the passage for the animal through the door?

[mr_pan7s]

Cage Traps under the traps menu are pretty OP. But i was getting annoyed by them as well at first. just get your dwarves mostly in doors and every a nice long entrance full of cage traps

[Imas]

The solution to pretty much 99% of things that are trying to kill your dwarves and/or lifestock: Cage traps.

Cage traps in front of the door, cage traps behind the door. Multiple layers of cage traps at your main entrance (but not in front of your depot, wagons can't drive over them).


But more seriously: From what I've experienced, agitated wildlife seems to be a kind of tantrum spiral: Once there are any agitated wild animals, they will attack and agitate all other wildlife that wanders onto the map, unless you somehow kill all of them at once. And if there are birds among them... well, tough luck. Some of them will furiously circle 5-10 layers above the ground and randomly swoop in to fight stuff at some later date. Might be your fisherdwarves, might be your livestock, will definitely be every other wild animal that enters the map to agitate them too.

Trapping them in a cage and then training them does remove agitated, and makes them part of your livestock (albeit the quality of the training will vary). Actually, you may even be able to pasture them somewhere in the wilds, and when they revert to wild animals they may not go back to agitated...

[teoleo]

thk, another question:
my squad if is off duty react automatically or i need to activate it?

[mr_pan7s]

need to activate squads with commands. if they aren't already training or on a task then it will take a while for them to assemble their gear. sometimes they show up with no gear in a hurry. it's best to try to have a stand by on training always so they are always ready

[Imas]

Or at least make sure they all have their own rooms with cabinets and chests, to grab their gear from during the early years.

[teoleo]

ok, but for the door? how i can block pet?

[TheTrashMan]

Same issue, my only real problem about it is how constant it is.
a giant bird getting where it should not be is kind of funny. but it get's really FUN the 70th time in the same month that a bird flies down 50 elevations just to bite a dwarf..

[Imas]

You can surround your main staircase at the top level with cage traps, usually keeps them out - also one of the reasons you often don't want to have a single long staircase go straight down all the way from the outside, you can't force invaders to walk through a corridor before they reach inside.
At least there will be over a dozen other dwarfs nearby to pummel the bird dead before it can twitch - it's much worse when they go after some lonesome fisher or someone dwarf who decided to cross the map to pick up a log or the butcherable corpse of that birds last victim.

[malthenielsen]

AFAIK it's something that happen in wild biomes if you cut too many tree. The animals react and attack you.

If you put enogh cage traps at your entrance the agitated animals become a huge source of meat, leather and bones.

[Helios]

Cages are op yes but they can pile up because there is no funktion to kill them in the cage better build 10 giant axe heads in your smith if you have iron and put down 10 traps in a row that will kill 99% og enemys including invaders exept gremlins and forgotten beast.

[Imas]

If you cage, say, a dozen albatross, ospreys or giant bluejays and keep training them (inside their cages or out), you eventually do get to domesticate them, though.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by teoleo:

i have several agitated animal, how i stop it?
How i can forbid the passage for the animal through the door?

Just checking, but are these your animals? You own them or no? If you own them, make sure their pasture is large enough. They don't like pastures that are too small and too crowded with other animals.