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This is a fairly accurate description for the rooms most people have their king in 

That being said, I'm working on one such room right now. I'l post pics of it (eventually)

It works fine untill you start to get a bigger fort.  After a while the drive's read speed isn't able to keep up with the game.  At least from my experience that is.

I'm a bit late to the thread on this, but when I think about a goblin "mechanic", I think about a little pyschopath running headlong into your trap hall to mess all of your shit up.

He would be wearing a pair of comically large goggles, holding a giant wrench, and cackling like, well, a goblin.  It would run up to the nearest trap, pry it open with its wrech/crowbar/whatever and dive in.  Moments later, mechanisms and other trap parts would come flying out in a haphazard fashion and the mechanic would pop his head and yell something like "IZ BROWKEN!" and run to the next trap.

On the way to the next one, he would accidentally step on a different trap, look up with a terrified face, and get shredded.


I guess what I'm trying to say is that goblin mechanix shouldn't have any sort of expertise or knowledge of what they're doing. They just randomly take things apart; a moderate chance to avoid the trap is all that really sets them from other goblins.

Somebody needs to figure out how to mod in trainable babies.

Imagine a horde of war babies.

Utterly useless 

Siege engines are going to be so much more useful when the army arc is fleshed out. Ordering your army to bring a catapult to that pesky goblin tower would be the coolest thing.

Quote from: Kardos on November 10, 2008, 07:02:30 pm

As to the flooding and frozen lake invasion problem, the solution is absolutely Dwarven and made of win:
Drill down on all sides to the bowls of the earth to release magma flows.  On the surface there would be a resultant magma moat.  If anyone were to try and ride tidal floods over the magma flow, they would be steamed to death.   
mmmmmmm magma burning auto-steam trap~~~~

There is the ever so minor difficulties when dealing with drilling into the crust of the earth.  They have a lot more Z levels and guaranteed access to Magma, but it's a bit more difficult to acquire..

How so? I don't think they would even need pumps to get it up.

Well, I just finished my magma pumping system, and the fort hasn't flooded, so that's good.  But I was surprised to see my floodgates melt.  I used bauxite for the mechanisms so I thought I was safe, but the gates themselves melted.

I thought floodgates didn't melt?