Having issues with loading cages in traps

[Jeza]

So I just built 20+ cage traps in my fort, I have around 40 cages, half bought half built in my fort and all are empty, not a single one ever had anything inside.
None of the traps have ever been triggered, they're "freshly built " ( 1 ingame year ago but never used) and 5 of those are still not loaded with cages, the jobs to do so are being cancelled every time because the dwarfs don't find empty cages to use.
I checked and I have 15 empty cages in my empty cages stockpile, none are forbidden or set to be dumped or melted or anything of the sort.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug ? And am I the only one with this issue ?

[Helios]

Originally posted by Jeza:

So I just built 20+ cage traps in my fort, I have around 40 cages, half bought half built in my fort and all are empty, not a single one ever had anything inside.
None of the traps have ever been triggered, they're "freshly built " ( 1 ingame year ago but never used) and 5 of those are still not loaded with cages, the jobs to do so are being cancelled every time because the dwarfs don't find empty cages to use.
I checked and I have 15 empty cages in my empty cages stockpile, none are forbidden or set to be dumped or melted or anything of the sort.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug ? And am I the only one with this issue ?

are the cages stil in trade depot? if yes destroy the depot and rebuild it (but not if traders are present).

[Jeza]

are the cages stil in trade depot? if yes destroy the depot and rebuild it (but not if traders are present).

Not at all they're in my stockpile, not far from the traps there is a stockpile just for empty cages, they're there all ready for use.

[Zly Serif]

labor/standing orders/sieges and forbidding My problem was there maybe it will help you as well.

[Jeza]

Originally posted by Zly Serif:

labor/standing orders/sieges and forbidding My problem was there maybe it will help you as well.

Unfortunately not the issue here, the dwarfs loaded all but 5 traps and I haven't changed the standing orders, loading traps is forbidden during sieges only, there is no siege, I removed and rebuilt the 5 traps and still nothing.

[Sophtopus]

Check and see if there's something accidentally inside the cages, like annoying seeds and pits. I found that out when I noitced that the cages said 'it contains 2 items'

[Jeza]

Originally posted by Sophtopus:

Check and see if there's something accidentally inside the cages, like annoying seeds and pits. I found that out when I noitced that the cages said 'it contains 2 items'

As I wrote the cages are empty, I checked.
I also bought and built new ones, 10 of each, since then and they're all in the dedicated stockpile, all empty, not forbidden and I only need 5.

[AlP]

Is the cage stockpile linked to any workshop or stockpile?

[Jeza]

Originally posted by AlP:

Is the cage stockpile linked to any workshop or stockpile?

No it isn't' if it were the 20+ first traps wouldn't have been loaded either.

[Amiancht]

I had same problem.
However I discovered seeds inside of my cages.
Dwarfs give food to animals inside of the cage, when release the animal the food can keeping inside. The game consider isn't empty cage if have any item inside (not just animals and prisioners).
To solve it fast, need to mark this items to garbage dump.
Edit: It is possible you need build the cage (no cage trap) to can see the items inside.

[AlP]

Forbid your existing cages, and make some new ones, and see if that works.

[Jeza]

Originally posted by Amiancht:

I had same problem.
However I discovered seeds inside of my cages.
Dwarfs give food to animals inside of the cage, when release the animal the food can keeping inside. The game consider isn't empty cage if have any item inside (not just animals and prisioners).
To solve it fast, need to mark this items to garbage dump.
Edit: It is possible you need build the cage (no cage trap) to can see the items inside.

I checked the cages, also there never were any animals inside plus I also made 20 more after the issue started and I had only 4 traps to load.

[Jeza]

Originally posted by AlP:

Forbid your existing cages, and make some new ones, and see if that works.

tried that, didn't help unfortunately.
I also tried removing and rebuilding the traps and it didn't help.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Jeza:

Originally posted by AlP:

Forbid your existing cages, and make some new ones, and see if that works.

tried that, didn't help unfortunately.
I also tried removing and rebuilding the traps and it didn't help.

You rebuilt the traps on the same spot, and they don't get reloaded? But building them elsewhere works?

[Jeza]

Originally posted by AlP:

Originally posted by Jeza:

tried that, didn't help unfortunately.
I also tried removing and rebuilding the traps and it didn't help.

You rebuilt the traps on the same spot, and they don't get reloaded? But building them elsewhere works?

I was trying to trap the main entrance to my fort that I dug into a hill. the first layer just in front of the entrance worked, the second layer failed, I tried the third layer to see and it failed too.
by curiosity I tried to place one underground in the fort and it worked.
The first 20 or so traps are all outside a couple of blocks from the ones that failed tough so I don't see why those don't work and all the other do.

[AlP]

Is there a task to reload those traps in the t menu?