Talk:Captured live fish
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Can't get this to work...
Whenever I queue up a "Capture a live fish" task, the person who picks it up walks over to my animal stockpile (which is on land) and just stands next to a trap until he gets bored and switches to another task. I do have fishable lakes and I do have a glass terrarium that is unused and non-forbidden. -Fuzzy 11:30, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- I had this issue too, after the season changed my dorf ran over and grabbed a salmon or somesuch. I'm guessing there needs to be a fish in valid fishing areas for this job to complete. Otherwise they stand around and wait for a fish to spawn so they can capture it. HeWhoIsPale 11:57, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- I'm glad I wasn't the only one. Aosher 06:44, 3 February 2009 (EST)
- Just so we're clear, to successfully capture a live fish you must:
- A.) Have an empty animal trap
- B.) Have a dwarf with the "fishing" labor enabled
- C.) Have a valid, accessible fishing area with capturable fish in it
- D.) Have a place to deposit the fish? A pond? An aquarium? An animal storage stockpile? This is the part I think I get hung up on.--Zipdog 04:22, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
- All at once? --Zchris13 04:23, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
- I just finally got my fisherdwarves to catch live fish, and now they're actually doing it pretty well, I got three fish caught within like 20 minutes. The final thing I was missing was that the fishing area appears to need to be an actual designated fishing zone, even though that's not required for regular fishing. As soon as I toggled the fishing designation on my previously existing water source zone, my fisherdwarf who had been standing on top of the animal stockpile ran outside and caught a fish. I don't think you even need an active, empty aquarium for it to work, although obviously you'll want one eventually--I filled up all my current aquariums with fish, and they've caught another fish. I won't be totally convinced until they catch a few more, but right now all fisherdwarves are sleeping or on break etc. Mister Six 18:22, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
- Do update us once you find out! --Blank 18:48, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
- I just finally got my fisherdwarves to catch live fish, and now they're actually doing it pretty well, I got three fish caught within like 20 minutes. The final thing I was missing was that the fishing area appears to need to be an actual designated fishing zone, even though that's not required for regular fishing. As soon as I toggled the fishing designation on my previously existing water source zone, my fisherdwarf who had been standing on top of the animal stockpile ran outside and caught a fish. I don't think you even need an active, empty aquarium for it to work, although obviously you'll want one eventually--I filled up all my current aquariums with fish, and they've caught another fish. I won't be totally convinced until they catch a few more, but right now all fisherdwarves are sleeping or on break etc. Mister Six 18:22, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
- All at once? --Zchris13 04:23, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
- I'm glad I wasn't the only one. Aosher 06:44, 3 February 2009 (EST)
