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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Is it normal that werebeasts don't attack each other?
« on: September 21, 2021, 10:12:22 pm »
I have a werepanda and werewolf in the same room during a full moon. The werewolf has a baby boy on her back. They don't turn on each other, they don't turn on the baby, and they don't break down the mudstone door or the tombs nearby. But if I let them out of the room, they attack my dwarves.

Is this normal behavior? The wiki seems to suggest that no, this is not. Do I have some setting on that makes them docile? Or is this a bug? Version 0.47.05 LNP.

Bonus question:

Best way to separate a dwarf from its child?

I've tried stationing the dwarf on a retracting bridge connected to a lever, with a cage trap underneath. I pull the lever, the dwarf and its baby falls, but the dwarf does not end up in the cage trap.

I've tried putting the dwarf in a danger room surrounded by cage traps. Again, dodging into the cage trap does not capture the dwarf...

I've also tried flinging the baby and dwarf together off a bridge. That works in separating the two, but the dwarf then immediately goes into seek child mode. If I burrow the dwarf so that the child isn't inside of the burrow, she just freezes there, doing nothing else. If I station the dwarf, she ignores the burrow and all station orders and goes to the child again.

I've tried running the dwarf across a waterfall, but I don't have a good setup where the dwarf won't just drop the baby down the well instead.

I've tried burrowing the infant, but apparently it doesn't obey burrows.

I read it's possible to put a dwarf in a locked room full of cage traps, and the cages then capture her immediately when she goes to sleep. Haven't tried this yet. Also haven't tried constructing a support with a wall connected and then removing the support and knocking my dwarf unconscious.



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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Help understanding Larix 205 tick bridge repeater?
« on: September 16, 2021, 05:51:11 pm »
I posted on reddit weekly questions thread but I get the sense the community is more active here.

The repeater is the one on here. http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/User:Larix/MPL/3 called bridge repeater.

I'm having trouble seeing how this repeater is supposed to work, since there is no animation and no screenshot of the z-1 level or z+1 level.

I'm guessing there must be an impulse ramp somewhere in there...

His description says:

'A curiosity, a powerless repeater sending a signal every ~205 steps which can be used to operate a constantly opening and closing bridge. The only operational pit is the one to the north, a looped-ramp pit (ramps SW and NW) with the northern ramp covered with a hatch cover linked to the output plate. As long as the hatch cover is open, the cart will cycle through the pit and the flat half-circle directly west of it. Once the hatch closes - one hundred steps after the cart went over the pressure plate - the cart will pass over the hatch, bump into the wall and move incredibly slowly to the south, fall into the bunker pit, leave at a slightly more sustainable speed and touch the plate again.'

So the weird looking c is a floor hatch? What purpose does it serve?

How does the cart travel? What is an 'operational pit'? A 'bunker pit'? Where are the SW ramp or NW ramp? What is hidden beneath the minecart?

I appreciate people for sharing their designs since it's otherwise very annoying trying to design a cycle with x tick loops. But it's so difficult to follow their schematics.

My design so far. https://imgur.com/a/Xfecr2a

Not understanding how the middle circuit works. https://imgur.com/a/CgSJN12 is how I'm visualizing the minecart travels. What does the hatch do? What is it covering?

And if anyone has tips in general for how to design your own repeater, please share or refer me to a thread to learn more.


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