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How so? Caste specifications for immune creatures? The following doesn't work:

EDIT: This will work in that it causes the AI not to target Deep Ones, but if I control one in arena mode and cast the interaction manually, it always affects me. How can I fix that?
[IT_IMMUNE_CREATURE:DKP_DEEP_ONE:ALL]
There are already multiple castes of the creature:
DO_HYBRID
DO_STD
DO_CULTIST
DO_CLERIC
DO_PRIEST -- this is the one that casts the interaction
DO_GOD

With relation to my first question, I'd like the curse to turn creatures into a Deep One hybrid, then later, if the first syndrome was activated, into a standard Deep One (DO_STD). For the second question, all these need to be exempt from the curse.

Not quite a name, but... eew.



EDIT: I walked into a temple, the Sanctuary of Contingencies, to encounter the goblin High Chance Pestrat Nosebridge. "Praise be to Zapas", he says. (Apparently he worships shoes, and, as I imagine, speaks with a Spanish accent.) As I leave, he insists, "Before every meal, consider death."

EDIT2: Now he tells me that "Life is, in a word, death" and that I need to "put my faith in games" and "consider gambling". I leave again and he apparently advocates my suicide: "At this juncture in your life, put your faith in death."

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Make sure your military is using blunt weapons. If you use axes or swords, any severed limbs will just join the ranks of the undead seconds after detaching. Smashing zombies to a pulp will collapse them without creating additional enemies.

As for traps, follow a similar route: build spiked silver balls. A pit trap will do little to actually kill zombies, since unless they fall on their head, they almost certainly won't die (normal creatures might bleed out if they don't die instantly from the impact, zombies will not). Don't use magma. Zombies care little about being on fire, and will just be a greater threat when ignited.

Possibly try to cage-trap the necromancer, since they can be used to resurrect zombies as training for your military, create zombie bacon, and other such things.

I recall that this is a recent bug. The liquid is just a generic object and won't do anything interesting, nor will anyone drink it.

That's likely a more resource-efficient method providing you have the Z-levels to spare.

Here's another idea I had recently, a dwarven autoshotgun modified to fire creatures (also safe from intrusion by fliers):

I've only diagrammed the barrel here. Be sure to use 3 downward ramps leading up to it so that the creatures are actually flung out.

To use, load a minecart with cage(s) full of creatures, possibly an entire goblin siege. Fire the minecart into this device, and it will strike the wall on Z+0. The cage will fly out of the minecart at Z+1 and hit the wall there. The creatures will fly out of the cage at Z+1 and Z+2, through the fortifications, and out of the device.

In my tests, creatures who land on other creatures when fired from the weapon will take little damage (possibly some bruising) while severely injuring whoever they landed on, so you may wish to use the device to fire bears/tigers/elephants at dense crowds of enemies. I've not had much of a chance to test this weapon, but will construct one shortly in my current fort and perform further testing for possible uses.

Completely intended. However, it is a recent addition and will probably be tweaked to be less inevitably dooming at some point in the future.