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oh we got it. they merely wandered into their own direction with it

 

any ideas?

Drowning chamber.
Magma chamber.
Ballista champer.
Starving champer.
...
I'm out.

They do defend themselves but it might take a broken leg before they decide to do it. A farmer of mine found a goblin thief, the goblin cut him in the eyes and he fell over .. the goblin took advantage of this and severed his head before making a break for it. Thankfully he took too long and was caught and horribly mauled.

So only a few days later a SECOND farmer finds a goblin thief in roughly the same area. This time the farmer jabs a spear in the goblin (all miners farmers have spears) and runs away screaming. The goblin has a copper spear stuck in his upper body and a punctured heart .. that's bad, right? Well it died and everyone rejoiced.

My guess is that the goblin struck at the second farmer but missed, the farmer defended himself and that was that .. your marmot probably bit the woodcutter in the spine or something, incapacitating him immediately.
OR the woodcutter was taking a nap on the wrong side of town, that's pretty much a death warrant for even legendary dwarves.

Arrow towers.

Also what's with all the captured animals?

Quote from: Duke 2.0 on April 13, 2009, 09:17:03 pm

Quote from: Draco18s on April 13, 2009, 09:12:31 pm

Quote from: Aspgren on April 12, 2009, 05:12:22 pm

Go up ramp, dump kittens into designated pit, fire ballista. Kittens die (you can kill HEAPS at the same time!) and your siege operator gets practice. Practice is important if you want him to be able to reload siege equipment and get more than one shot at gobbos.

That's the most horrible thing I've ever heard of.

Indeed. You said goblins instead of kittens in the last sentence.

Err... I think he meant gobbos. When you're shooting at immobile, defenseless kittens, it's better to do it slowly!

Yes ... yes I did.  I meant you need to reload quickly when the gobbos come or they will scare away the operator before he gets off a second shot. Why fire into empty space when you can practice on kittens?

Over complicated? add "incredibly dangerous" and "high risk of failure" and I'll support this!

So recently one of my marksdwarves got a goblin arrow stuck in her head. Minor brain damage, right eye gouged out.

She continued to fight. After the goblin squad was vanquished she just pulled the arrow out, threw it on the ground and joined her comrades in fighting a second squad... thing is after the battle I looked all around and I didn't find her eye. It wasn't on any arrow I found, it wasn't on the ground or in the "body parts" stock list.

So I assume gouged out dwarven eyes don't exist in the game. This has got to be corrected!