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Dwarf Fortress => DF Gameplay Questions => Topic started by: ragnaroki on January 27, 2010, 08:53:42 am

Title: Waiter, There is a fly in my dwarven syrup roast!
Post by: ragnaroki on January 27, 2010, 08:53:42 am: I have about 6 or 7 swarms of flies circling my food stockpile and it is not doing any good for fortress morale. Is there a way to get rid of them/prevent more from showing up?

thanks
Title: Re: Waiter, There is a fly in my dwarven syrup roast!
Post by: Lav on January 27, 2010, 09:08:24 am: No, the flies are invincible. I have seen them survive magma.
Title: Re: Waiter, There is a fly in my dwarven syrup roast!
Post by: Cheeetar on January 27, 2010, 10:14:48 am: Cats can help rid a fortress of vermin, but they provide another problem in lagging the fortress up when they breed.
Title: Re: Waiter, There is a fly in my dwarven syrup roast!
Post by: mission0 on January 27, 2010, 01:05:19 pm: Quote from: Cheeetar on January 27, 2010, 10:14:48 am
Cats can help rid a fortress of vermin, but they provide another problem in lagging the fortress up when they breed.

Cats can't touch flies. I would think that your food stockpile is near the top of your map which is also near a pool of water. The pool is where the flies spawn from. You could dump magma into the pool to potentially solve the problem.
Title: Re: Waiter, There is a fly in my dwarven syrup roast!
Post by: monk12 on January 27, 2010, 02:20:12 pm: Quote from: mission0 on January 27, 2010, 01:05:19 pm
Quote from: Cheeetar on January 27, 2010, 10:14:48 am
Cats can help rid a fortress of vermin, but they provide another problem in lagging the fortress up when they breed.

Cats can't touch flies. I would think that your food stockpile is near the top of your map which is also near a pool of water. The pool is where the flies spawn from. You could dump magma into the pool to potentially solve the problem.

Oh, magma. Is there anything it CANT do?
Title: Re: Waiter, There is a fly in my dwarven syrup roast!
Post by: Shaostoul on January 27, 2010, 03:26:06 pm: Bring back your worth while dwarfs to life.
Title: Re: Waiter, There is a fly in my dwarven syrup roast!
Post by: Satarus on January 27, 2010, 03:43:09 pm: Flies are spawned by pools, rotting things, and dead things. Keep those away from your food and you should have few flies.
Title: Re: Waiter, There is a fly in my dwarven syrup roast!
Post by: Foxbyte on January 27, 2010, 03:47:44 pm: I found in general having a food storage area inside soil instead of rock would cause flies to spawn. But maybe there was a pool nearby those times, I don't remember. Still! Dwarves like their food far from that evil thing in the sky that makes them vomit, so bury it down a few layers in the warm bosom of the earth.
Title: Re: Waiter, There is a fly in my dwarven syrup roast!
Post by: Keuran on January 27, 2010, 06:00:19 pm: there's not much you can do about the flues, but I think that if you put all your food in barrels and move it deep enough into the ground, the flies will eventually leave on their own. I always embark near lakes and oceans and I barely ever get any flies because all my food is heavily secured either far underground or high enough in a tower that the flies don't seem to recognize its existence. Having an outdoors refuse pile and a cat seems to help prevent flies too even if they don't get rid of ones that are already there.

If you're really desperate to get them gone fast, you could take the [VERMIN_NOTRAP] token off of them in the raws then watch as they get massacred by any nearby cats.