Editing v0.31:Animal trap

'''Animal traps''' are items used by a [[trapper]] to catch [[vermin]]. They are created at a [[carpenter's workshop]] or a [[metalsmith's forge]] by a dwarf with the trapping labor enabled.

Animal traps can be used by ordering one of your trappers to capture a live land animal in the [[kennel]] or [[butcher's shop]] with {{k|q}} then {{k|a}}, or placing an order with the [[manager]] from a [[kennel]] to catch a live land animal, and can also be built by going into the {{k|b}}uild menu, and choosing {{k|m}} to place an animal trap anywhere. In order to catch small animals, after the trap is placed it must be baited ({{k|q}} to select bait type). Bait can be [[fish]], [[meat]], or a large [[gem]] (though gems are currently useless). There is a chance, depending on the [[quality]] of the trap, that it will not spring fast enough to catch the vermin, causing the bait to be lost, and the trap will need to be reset and rebaited, which a trapper dwarf will automatically do on his own.  According to [[Main:Toady One|Toady]], the formula for the chance that a trap quality gives you successfully trapping a creature (as opposed to being robbed) is '''50/65/75/85/95/100'''; this means that masterwork traps will never be robbed.

When a vermin is caught in a trap, it will be brought to an animal [[stockpile]] which accepts vermin of that type by a dwarf with the animal [[hauling]] labor enabled.  You can remove a vermin from a cage (thus freeing it for re-use) by assigning it to an installed [[cage]]; for doing this to [[vermin#Hateable_vermin|hateable vermin]] you should have a separate cage in a far away place, so as to reduce the chance of dwarves getting unhappy [[thought]]s.  

Note that though a caught vermin is treated as if it were an item, marking it for [[dumping]] does nothing.