Is it possible to capture a webspinning forgotten beast / titan?

Question

I would dearly like to cage trap a web-spinning forgotten beast (or other procedural creature, like a titan) so as to make a forgotten beast silk factory. (Yeah, I know giant cave spider silk is worth more. I don't care; having things made out of FB silk is awesome.) Unfortunately:

1. All procedural creatures have basic trap immunity.
2. The usual workaround for that, webbing on the cage trap, doesn't work because webspinners are immune to webs.
3. Procedural creatures also cannot be stunned, so luring them into cage-trap-paved areas and attacking them doesn't (as far as I can tell) seem to result in them ever losing consciousness and getting trapped.

So, does anybody know of any methods that might work? Maybe circumstances where an FB might be rendered unconscious other than by the usual stunning? Or a strategy I'm overlooking? Or are they just uncapturable?

Asked by chaos

Answer

You're going at your problem the wrong way. You don't need to capture a Demon or Forgotten Beast in a cage trap to start a silk farm - all you need to do is trap it in an area such that it can shoot its webs but not otherwise bother you.

Mitchewawa on the Bay12 Forums has quite an extensive topic on this very subject.

The crux of it involves exploiting pathing and the fact that building destroyers cannot destroy hatches from below. Basically, you want to isolate your webber, then use caveins etc. then dig out a silk farm area based on where you isolated it, and finally, sacrifice a migrant to get it into the silk farm area (with the possibility of orchestrating a cave trap to seal it off again).

Answered by Raven Dreamer

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