Why wont my dwarves load new cage traps?

[Endemonadia]

I have 10 cage traps built with mechanisms and nobody is fitting the cages!?!?!

I have 5 traps with enemies inside that i cannot reach because im in lockdown. I have built new cage traps inside my fort and they fitted cages to 4 of them and then stopped... i have 15 Iron cages in storage and 10 new traps waiting for cages...

Its been months and they just wont fit the cages... what am i doing wrong?

EDIT: the task doesnt even appear on the task llist, yet they fitted the mechanisms at each trap location.

[Raven Unit]

Did you lock the items from the out side from being picked up some time if you assign the closes item it will pick the out side items and you will not be able to finish the task.

So you need to cancel the job lock the out side items and then replace the job.

[Endemonadia]

Originally posted by Raven Unit:

So you need to cancel the job lock the out side items and then replace the job.

I have 2 traps outside topside filled with enemies and 5 down in the caves. I dont think banning outside activities will work right?

[Endemonadia]

Ok ive worked out what the problem was... i was under SIEGE.

And one of the Labour settings stops reloading traps when a siege is active. I toggled the option and now all of my unarmed cagetraps now appear in the Task list :)

It only took me 4 hours to work that out :/