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This is weird.. this is probably the most helpful non-flaming forum I have ever been on.99% of this forum is sociopaths, so I suppose we all just... cancel each other out. This forum cannot be trolled.
I love you guys....
Long time reader, first time TC.
Also... sorry about the lovin', I'm about 3 pints into the night.
But don't serated discs get stuck easy?Serrated discs DO get stuck easily, but spears actually get stuck the most. I still prefer the serrated discs though, for the same reason everyone else does: it's like a goblin blender. Hammer traps are fun too, though, as they don't create much of a mess. Well, until the goblins start vomiting, that is...
i remember back in 40d when i modded elves to breed. i would catch the parents of a child in a cage then pit them with a tentacle demon. then i would force the child to run around the pit which was lined with weapon traps with one whip each. that way the parent were permenantly coated in the blood of their child while stuck in a tiny pit with a "friend"You win.
Just move your pitting area far away from your main fort.The problem isn't that my whole fort runs away from them, but that the dwarves hauling goblins to the pit are scared off. The first one works just fine, but every dwarf after that sees the first goblin in the pit and runs off. They HAVE to approach the pit,and they always see the goblins down there and freak out.
That makes a lot of sense, that intro has been around for a while. Still though, even if it originally represented magma, it represents the HFS even better since:
darn! I always thought that it was his face exploding in a bloody mess by HFS! the magma river being breached is alot less epic though...
besides I am very shure that what you said is true but how dose the pick fall many floors below and the dwarf looks around in the cave before he gets engulfed in magma?
The pick falling is sort of an abstraction, as "right" was supposed to equal "down". the only real falls in 2D were into the chasm (it made things mad when you dumped garbage there) and so a pick falling wasnt really possible back then.
It did take some time for the magma to overflow, though. a fast miner could out-run it. a slow one would burn. helped to have a little chamber for it to expand into while your dude ran away. eventually, it cooled to obsidian. Other magma wouldnt cool, unless you hit it with water. just the initial flood.
I actually got into it from, of all things, Runescape. There's this one bit where an item has "A gem in a gold setting. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality." and I looked it up, it referenced DF and I went from there. Then I read boatmurdered.That is the best thing ever. Say what you want about Runescape, but those guys at Jagex have one hell of a sense of humor.
EDIT: Also in Runescape, the dwarf you steal the item from is named Urist.
This.For me, it was also TVTropes. I remember reading a few pages where they would mention DF. Then when I saw the actual DF page, it sounded too amazing to pass up.
A tutorial and few forts later here I am.
You are confusing titans and megabeasts. All titans are randomly generated and avoid traps, while there's three megabeasts (dragon, BC and hydra) who CAN be both captured and hacked up by traps.Hmm... I was attacked by a two-headed humanoid in one of my old forts, I can't remember what it was called. I assumed it was a titan, but it might have been a megabeast. Anyway, it was caught easily in one of my cage traps.
No. Floor will destroy the cage trap, ceiling will kill the titan. To capture it you have to knock it out so it will land onto cage trap.So, stunned titans can be caught in cage traps? Is there another way to stun it so I could do that?
