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Nameless One

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How to free a captured dwarf?
« on: September 03, 2009, 11:39:24 pm »

One of my dwarves went frenzied in a goblin attack and was captured in my own cage trap while running around. How do I free him? I tried placing him in a zoo or jail and deassigning the cage from him. I also tried to assign an animal to the cage but no one is coming to release him. It's a wooden cage, btw.
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Malicus

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Re: How to free a captured dwarf?
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2009, 12:18:57 am »

Build the cage, build a lever, attach the cage to the lever, pull the lever.
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Re: How to free a captured dwarf?
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2009, 12:24:31 am »

You don't need to build a lever. Build the cage, go to assign, and unassign the dwarf.
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Re: How to free a captured dwarf?
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2009, 12:40:11 am »

He already tried that.  Trust me, what I said is the way to do it.
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Re: How to free a captured dwarf?
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2009, 03:06:53 am »

Also, have some military and a coffin ready

EDIT: or sell him to the human caravan
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Re: How to free a captured dwarf?
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2009, 04:22:48 am »

I suggest you set him to be pitted. If possible, right into his tomb.

Otherwise, the lever+cage thing works
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Re: How to free a captured dwarf?
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2009, 07:50:10 am »

I suggest you set him to be pitted. If possible, right into his tomb.

Annoyingly, you cannot pit a dwarf, even if it's from an enemy civilization.
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Re: How to free a captured dwarf?
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2009, 08:57:19 am »

You can with my way of pitting dwarves, which is basicly the lever thing but then with the cage placed on a support which is also connected to the lever.

Works for everything else you want to pit without dwarves touching it.
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Re: How to free a captured dwarf?
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2009, 03:47:19 pm »

Thanks for the solution. I'll try it once my mechanic recovers from wounds  >:(
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