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There is fish in our pond.

Tiny little bastards but still.

I CAUGHT ONE WITH MY BARE HANDS.

(By trapping it in ice but STILL)

Why do I have a feeling liquid nitrogen was used in the process?

AFAK they can be captured with metal cages, and no they don't radiate heat in cages and no imps don't fire from cages. Cages are like suspended animation (except for jailed dwarfs)

T_T

So, I just killed nearly 150 dwarves, of which 1/5'th were children and babies. Due to my fps getting under 20.

This was on a 6x6 map.

What should I change in my next start to make sure this won't happen again?

- max dwarves lower? how low?
- map size down? how much?
- I do not want to change temperature and such, they are very much loved.
- A river will not be missing, since I need plenty of water to make weird things.

-- Last map had nearly 150 dwarves on a 6x6 location with a river crossing the entire map. Any needed further information will be given when requested

Quote from: Waffle on March 16, 2010, 01:43:24 pm

Hurray for genocidage!

Edit: There's something to take waaay out of context.

FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE!

OT: That's a LOT of kids. Maybe the adults can tie them together and use them as a raft. That'd be Hilarious!

You made me lol... bastard XD

Quote from: Nether on March 16, 2010, 01:36:13 pm

AND THERE IS 3 PAGES OF CHILDREN AND BABIES!

Oh fucking hell, here I come...The water's 3/7 minimally now, everywhere.

Fun fact

Mothers drop their babies at 4/7 or 5/7 water if it's flowing, and babies can drown in it if you're not careful.

Someone even made a baby-removal-tool with flowing water over a hallway that ended in a deep pit. You don't have to feel bad for just killing dwarves once, there are entire forts build around the idea that if dwarves are kept miserable enough they will slaughter eachother and make items out of their former friends' bones and skins.

Wow, I never knew that... I knew people went far here, but thats just... cruel XD.

Ok, if not Hitler, what am I?

EDIT: On second note, Hitler's a pussy compared to some guys here. what the hell are THEY!?

I believe that cave-ins are unconditional complete destruction. You wouldn't even need to drop your whole fort - just one tile. I'm imagining something like this (side view, # = natural wall)

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(The pit down this tunnel)
Lure a bunch of them up into the tunnel, and make sure you have a fast and reliable way to break the support. Heck, you might even be able to just build the support out of wood, and have them collapse it on themselves. (Hint: USE A SAFETY MECHANISM if you're going to experiment with that.)

Hmm, that would be quite cool. XD

I feel so bad about drowning my dwarves just now...

So... my fps got below 20 and as promised I ordered the pulling of the lever. God I feel bad about that. My dwarves are currently watching a 7/7 wave flowing towards them with the only exit being sealed off by 7/7 water. I feel so much like Hitler right now for genociding my dwarves...

I believe you haven't really played Dwarf Fortress until you have deliberately destroyed at least one of your fortresses.

Heh, I'm sincerely thinking of doing so now. Have 150 dwarves and my fps has dropped to 30 -_-'' if it hits 20 I'll let them kick the (magma-)bucket.