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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: So I caught a Skeletal Giant Eagle...
« on: July 23, 2010, 06:49:25 am »Build a giant, multiple z-level glass and steel aviary, then release the eagle into it. Make sure it's in the middle of a meeting hall. Create a pit zone at the top of the cage over a several-tile-wide, 3-z-level high tube sealed by two sets of hatches, one at the Z-level where your dwarves will toss creatures, the other at the bottom over the aviary proper. Open the first hatch, pit some gobbos, close the first hatch, then open the second hatch. Make sure they have a multi-level stone pillar, complete with stairs or ramps, to land on so they don't die on impact and so they can try to run away. Watch(/imagine) as your idle dwarves squeal with delight as the skeletal eagle rips the hapless gobbos to pieces and tosses bloody goblin chunks all over the cage.
I have something similar and awesome in my current fortress. Make a solid gold dining room, in which one wall is constructed of glass blocks. Here is how the prisoner insert system works
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.......................X (Z-0) Open ground tiles, with glass wall to the north and stone walls to all other sides.
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---------------XG (Z+1) Overhanging container with a floor grate at the bottom.
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---------------XP (Z+2) Second level of overhang, P denotes a pit accessible from the right hallway, covered by a grate controlled separately from the Z+1 grate. You build a gobbo cage right next to
---------------XX the pit, order the goblin pitted, close the upper gate, and open the lower gate to drop them into the killing grounds. For me, its a breeding pair of Giant Cave Swallows (would have preferred bats but couldn't catch any)
