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They drink from wells if the well is on the z-level directly above the water. Trust Me.IIRC, they actually drink from the water BELOW the well, hence the depth requirement.
It's not too hard. I've played a fortress of sentient polar bears. I had to give them hands and think up an entire civilization for them, but it eventually worked....Why?
inb4xenomorphfromaliensCheck the community mods page. I think you can get predators, too.
Okay, time to get serious. I want a xenomorph from aliens. That means there will be no tech for them, and they will probably work in the next version or so (delayed transformation + slight bleeding).
Keep in mind that the dwarves are essentially alcoholic toddlers, and act accordingly. Some toddlers cry when someone makes a sudden movement, let alone when a giant badger runs at them.I tend to keep enormous, ragey animals AWAY from the nursery.
I like that, too.I have problems in medium worlds finding good embark points that i like. (i.e. points with flux, metal, and easy access to magma/lava) But you would have a better chance at finding a spot in a larger area.
You could just change the parameters to get those sorts of things all the way down to a tiny map.
I haven't quite gotten the hang of parameters yet. Perfect spots to me are flat volcano's with flux and metal. But those just seem to be so few and far between.
train war dog = train war animalWrong, I have tamed critters that were not in pastures frequently.
Also note that you can only train tame animals in pastures.
Do I need to build it "in" the water? I'm building it at ground level, the water is at -1 and the ground is channeled where I am building it. This is exactly how I used to do it in previous versions and it worked.No, building right above water should work. Maybe a screenshot would help us understand?
Just make it deep enough to kill 'em all and there won't be anyone alive to land on. Plus, they splash nicely. I had a 10 z-level deep trap that seemed to be 100% effective. Every goblin or troll (or dwarfI remember reading somewhere that if you make the dodge-me high enough, the creatures falling off the top will explode into bones, meat, and so forth. How high does it have to be to do this? I want to make goblin bone bolts to shoot at more goblins! And stuff like that.) that fell in it was smashed into a torso, a head, two arms and two legs. It was interesting watching it in slow motion and seeing heads, arms & legs fly up 3 or so z-levels above the bottom of the pit after impact.
Actually actually,Upright spikes work, too. And don't even need mechanisms!Also be aware that a falling goblin (or anything else) that lands on a living creature is only stunned, not damaged at all. So if a bunch of them come running across, the early ones will hit the ground and break bones, but the second wave may land on the survivors of the first wave and end up unharmed, just stunned for a few moments. So be prepared for some fully functional goblins down there.
Put lots of Weapon Traps down the bottom, to deal with those early ones.
Actually, they do. Upright spears need to be linked to a lever so they can be raised, and even then it only works if the enemy's already on the tile IIRC, so you can't just have them fall on it.
Sleepwalking. Or some angry cave dwellers who found you napping in their food.A. No caves for miles. Did I sleepwalk farther than I can normal-walk in one day, TWICE, before I woke up?
