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[[File:web_sprites_preview.png|right]]'''Webs''' are the source of [[silk]], very often appearing in [[cavern]]s, and occasionally on the surface.  The web itself looks like a light-grey [[gem]], most often labeled as being from [[cave spider]]s, [[giant cave spider]]s, [[phantom spider]]s (in [[evil]] biomes), or [[Animal_people|spider men]] (on the surface). If an embark region is populated by web-making creatures, a number of their webs will be present immediately after embark, though further webs will only appear if the creatures themselves show up and leave them.

[[File:GCS Webs.png|thumb|left|104x132px|alt=Webs from a Giant Cave Spider.|Webs from a [[Giant cave spider]].]]Webs will be collected ''automatically'' by dwarves with the [[weaving]] labor enabled, but not until the fortress has a [[loom]].  A ''collect webs'' task will be triggered at the loom as long as webs are present within the loom's [[burrow]]. This can be comfortably deactivated with {{k|o}}-{{k|W}}-{{k|w}} (in the premium version, go to the Labor menu {{Menu icon|y}}, select the Standing Orders tab, then the Automated Workshops subtab, and toggle the "Automatically collect webs" button), an important option since webs often occur in dangerous places you might want to secure first.  The [[weaver]] will drop the collected thread in the loom and, depending on the loom setting and availability of a stockpile, either leave it there, immediately weave it into cloth, or put it in a stockpile. Other ways to prevent collecting are preventing any dwarf from using the loom ({{k|q}}-{{k|P}} - requires [[manager]]), deactivating the weaving [[labor]] on all dwarves, or removing all looms (lack of stockpiles alone will ''not'' prevent this). An easier alternative is just to suspend the collect webs task in each loom ({{k|q}}-{{k|s}}). It may be a good idea to only allow non-skilled weavers to collect webs and only skilled ones to actually weave cloth. Set high minimal skill on the actual weaving loom ({{k|q}}-{{k|P}}) and just as high maximal skill on the collecting loom. Suspend weaving on collecting loom and collecting on weaving loom. This allows higher efficiency, since collecting is not in any way affected by weaving skill (it happens instantly), but trains it and the skill affects quality of woven cloth.

[[Image:Web traps 1.png|thumb|right|200px|A design to drop webs on [[:File:Web traps 0.png|traps below]].]]

Webs become [[thread|silk thread]] the moment they are picked up. (They are, however, shown in the {{k|k}}-stocks menu under -> thread.)  Cave spider and phantom spider silk thread are worth 6[[currency|☼]]; giant cave spider silk webs and thread are worth 24[[currency|☼]]. [[Titan]], [[forgotten beast]] and even [[demon]] webs can be collected too, but they are worth only 6☼.

[[Giant cave spider]]s shoot long strings of dangerously entangling webs at targets prior to attacking - this behaviour can be used to create [[giant cave spider]] [[silk farm]]s. It is not advised to allow weavers to randomly gather webs on maps where giant cave spiders might be lurking nearby. [[Titan]]s, [[forgotten beast]]s, and other procedurally-generated creatures may also shoot webs.  

== Adventurer mode ==

When you're stuck and can't get up, press {{k|.}} to advance time; you automatically get free. When enemies are near you should press {{k|,}} for shorter ticks.  Furthermore, you are unaffected by webs while [[Climber|climbing]]. You can also [[jump]] onto the webbed tile. [[Animal_people|Spider people]] can just walk onto the tile. While sharing a tile with the web, you can pick it up, and if you have an empty hand the web will be gathered as thread, but if you don't, the web will be gathered and placed in your backpack as web. Such web can be placed by dropping or throwing it. Any webs may disappear if the area is unloaded (such as by sleeping, waiting, traveling, etc) while web in your inventory will become thread. Also, new webs may appear when an area is reloaded.