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susancreature
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« on: October 26, 2008, 10:15:16 am »


It's been a dream of mine to have a nice aquarium for my dwarves.  I have never had any luck catching a fish.  I noticed that my fisherdwarf will go hang out next to a trap in a pile and not do anything with it when they're active for trying to catch a live fish. 

Has anyone ever gotten this to work?
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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2008, 10:35:17 am »

What are you mean "ctive for trying to catch a live fish." ?

I dont think it's possible to catch fish - no dwarf fill go in water for a task...
And even if you manage to cage fish, it will "drawn" in the cage anyway.

Try making a channel from your river into the aquarium. Over time some fish will swim in there, then you can cut the access trapin them in the aquarium.
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2008, 10:40:38 am »


In the wiki there is a page devoted to the fishery action "capture live fish." 

"A captured live fish is caught using the "capture live fish" command given at a fishery. A dwarf with the fishing labor will then attempt to catch a fish live using an available animal trap. The fish will then be placed into an available aquarium. "

I've tried following the instructions: got a handy aquarium filled with water, have an available trap or two (metal and wood - in case it there's a preference), a fishery with the action on repeat - in case there's a fail condition to keep trying... and a bored fisherdwarf.. and a bored trapper dwarf  just in case..

never had any luck - wondering if anyone ever has figured this out or if it's buggy?
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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2008, 10:42:37 am »

Uh... I completely missed the fishery part...
Must give it a try... But i already have killed all the Carp in my current fort Sad
Let's hope some respawn next summer...
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« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2008, 01:53:05 pm »

I think you might need a glass trap in order to catch fish.  I doubt a cage with wire mesh sides or wooden with air holes will work.
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« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2008, 01:54:41 pm »

You need cage traps to catch carp and other large fish. Animal traps will suffice for vermin fish. I haven't caught any before, but it sounds like fun. Do the fish add to room value? Because then I could fill an aquarium with herring and stick it in my nobles' rooms to remind them about the watery things that will happen if they step out of line.
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« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2008, 02:15:56 pm »

i have had a dwarf working for about a day trying to catch fish. he never cancels it, but never catches anything either. just keeps on trying :}
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« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2008, 04:08:06 pm »



Same deal here, I've left my fishers trying to "capture live fish" for a season and a while.. just never happens.

I've also tried "planting" an animal trap on the side of brooks and lakes and baiting it with meat.  I seem to recall I once captured a mussel that way.  It was a bummer though, because  I found no way to put it in my aquarium, and it wasn't tameable.  My only option was to let the dwarves eventually eat it.   For bigger cage traps - I wonder if you can suspend them, or do they need to be underwater? (So I drain a lake, build it, then pump the lake back full?)

On the subject of animal traps - can you succesfully bait an animal trap with a large gem?  Never had any luck doing that either..
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« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2008, 04:33:32 pm »

I don't see it explicitly mentioned here.. An aquarium is a glass cage.  I've never done it, but I'm pretty sure you can do it.
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« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2008, 04:41:21 pm »

Someone once caught some carp with a contraption something like this:
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He would open the left floodgates, let fish in, wait till they got trapped, close the left floodgates, pump water out until it was 4/7 water (where fish and dwarves can survive without drowning), and let some animal tamers come in and lead the fish to the kennel where they would be tamed.
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« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2008, 04:52:37 pm »

 Roll Eyes thats pretty cool. but wth is the point of a tame carp :}. (other than the fact that no one else has one :p)
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« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2008, 05:33:53 pm »

Step 1: Fill the main hall with goblins.
Step 2: Open the retracting drawbridge, causing many of them to fall into the 7/7 water pit of carp. Watch them get torn apart and/or drown.
Step 3: Watch some other goblins run up to the pit, trying to kill the carp. Watch as they get pulled in and drown and/or get torn apart.

This can happen with non-tamed carp, but it's harder to get the equipment and stuff.
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« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2008, 08:47:45 pm »

Roll Eyes thats pretty cool. but wth is the point of a tame carp :}. (other than the fact that no one else has one :p)

Well for one thing, the person was able to train him into a Warcarp.

Also he stated that you should never EVER allow a warcarp to get back into the river if you want anything else in there to live. I can only guess that the river ran red.
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« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2008, 08:57:49 pm »

Oh yeah, with modding you can get war-carp.
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« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2008, 09:03:48 pm »


That's a pretty clever idea - tried something similiar once with no luck...

I had a chasm and a river on one board, so I created a waterfall into a pond and let the pond drain into the chasm through some grates.  I was hoping fish would fall over the waterfall, not be able to go back up it, and be caught in the pond because they couldn't swim through the grates.  I did see fish in the pond occasionally, but they didn't seem to stick around for whatever reason.  I have started to think that fish just randomly generate on river/pond tiles, swim around and disappear again after a time.

I have built aquariums from glass and filled them up with water.  I just can't capture any live fish to put in them Sad   The kennel idea sounds interesting, but it seems farfetched - did that really work?  I mean.. warcarp?Huh  Dogs are the only thing I've been able to train into war animals..
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