Giant Cave Spider Silk Farming UPDATE

[Sefin]

Managed to capture a giant cave spider.
Set him up in a 1x1 surrounded by fotress walls.
he wont shoot webs or he wont shoot the fortress walls.
He is NOT tamed. Still wild.

Anyone managed to get this work? He is seriously injured though, not sure if that matters.

[McFuzz]

They need to see dwarves/enemies to be able to shoot webs; do you have like, I dunno, a gap, or vertical bars, or something he can shoot through?

[Sefin]

I used 'Fortification' walls. Ill try with vertical bars, see if that works

[McFuzz]

Is it constructed in the cage? It has to be released from the cage.

[Teemo]

He might be seriously injured to the point that he lost his webshooter.

[McFuzz]

;-; no not spidey

[Sefin]

Originally posted by Teemo:

He might be seriously injured to the point that he lost his webshooter.

He might be. Ill reload and try to get before he gets hurt.

updates to follow

[Sefin]

Turns out he was hurt so bad he couldnt shoot. Fortification walls work just fine. Started my giant spider silk farm now. Just need to get a good target for him to shoot. He shoots dorfs all day. Maybe Ill just station an armed dorf for him to shoot for a while.

[Leiflen]

been dealing with this issue myself. had him webbing a goblin thief just fine but when i sent dwarves to collect web from the web collection room behind the gob he sees the gob and runs away. so trying to find a target the dwarves wont care about. but he will go ballistic for. in a old fort i had a tamed one who roamed around just fine. but the moment he saw a human bard visitor he would kill it. so.. maybe ill borrow a human from the next trade caravan. or a filthy elf.

[Leiflen]

how did you set up your trap by the way? mines set up as a 3 block cage with fortifications then a bridge then a 1 wide hallway with traps. a second bridge facing the traps and a chain for the bait. with fortifications build around it to restrict the baits movements but let the webs through. the bait usualy ends up standing on the second bridge and if you ever close it you have to replace the bait. but you should only need to close it when you need to use the webbed traps so.. had a forgotten beast with webs in it for a while got lots of silk from him. but gcs webs are worth alot more.

[McOrigin]

There are very useful ideas for silk farms in the wiki.