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Quote from: The Dog Delusion on June 26, 2011, 10:14:58 pm

Quote from: DeadlyMarmot on June 26, 2011, 08:20:36 pm

That's pretty awesome! That would be cool to reclaim in adventure mode after being filled with traps. Beware, though, if you are using it for defense: the enemy with not path into dead ends without bait being placed.

One fix would be similar to the goblin repeater - with 1-tile halls, you could place pressure plates that trigger doors to open or shut, which would cause them to have to re-calculate their path along a new way...possibly leading to trap goodness. Or just trap them forever - have a pressure plate that seals them in somehow so the only way out is through, but the exit keeps changing as they trip more pressure plates.

For the record, i am far too lazy and not nearly smart enough to actually DO any of that, but it sounds neat.

Have a pressure plate in a long hallway connected to two doors, both in opposite states of open-ness, with bait at one end. Instant goblin repeater.

Do they eventually die of starvation or does it work indefinitely?

I love tall towers, but I feel that it would be cruel to force a dwarf to live in anything other than natural stone. My style is therefore always tall cast obsidian towers. The upper floors house the nobles, control dwarf, magma and water reservoir, and water-logic AI. The middle floors are sandwiched between two legendary dinning rooms with the floors in between being large open rooms with lots of up/down stairs for maximum adaptability and space inefficiency. Housing is 1/4th windmill-style on the four corners of the middle floors. The ground floors typically hold the trade depot, security, the hospital, and automated bathing areas at the entrances and exits. Every other level for the entire fortress is for plumbing and a massive fortress-sized mist generator. Every floor with dwarves typically on it gets a well, small booze stockpile, and small dormitory. Every surface is eventually smoothed and engraved. Underground levels are the reason I keep redesigning my fortress: elaborate automated trap and execution rooms. Which ones are used depend on the water-logic AI's "mood" and what type of creature I tell the AI is trapped within. As a rule there is always a path a building destroyer could take to get from any above or below ground map edge to my dwarves although that doesn't mean he wouldn't be encased in obsidian if he tried.

Before I am able to cast the tower my dwarves live in a small 25x45 walled above ground fort with a small 5x10 three story living/dining building. Despite the small size they seem to like it and it can easily hold 80+ dwarves. I would build them a temporary below ground fortress, but I hate mining out more than I have to. I don't even like to use embarks with any ore because then I would be tempted to mine it for no reason at all.

That's pretty awesome! That would be cool to reclaim in adventure mode after being filled with traps. Beware, though, if you are using it for defense: the enemy with not path into dead ends without bait being placed.

The easiest way to make a good looking fortress is to use blood. Lots and lots of Elf blood. 

Does anybody know if a fluid logic prototyper for Dwarf Fortress exists? I'll begin work on one if none exists.

In the real world, cows can climb up stairs, but cannot climb back down. This should be implemented into DF posthaste.

Cows can climb down stairs. Here is a video of it happening. I've seen them climb down indoor stairs just fine at the vet too.

My usual arrangement for the patient holding cluster is

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tBt
BTB
tBt

t = table
B = bed
T = traction bench


I really like that layout especially with Girlinhat's mist idea. Can a surgeon or bone doctor do their job while occupying the same space as a dwarf in a bed?

Would this work equally well to support the grate Girlinhat mentioned for the misting system?
tBT
BgB
TBt

t = table
B = bed
T = traction bench
g = grate


And 140 dwarf armies? Wow.  Those must be serious invasions, or trap-free forts?  I don't have the patience for more than 20 or so...

No build-menu traps and there must always be one route from the outside (and caverns once breached) to every dwarf. My friend and I just started playing this game yesterday with those rules. Most complex, impressive, and valuable fortress by next Sunday wins. My entry is a 34x34x34 cast obsidian cube that houses my entire fortress and grows every type of alchol. The only defenses planned are the military and some very dwarfy traps using water-logic and magma. The goal is to make it run itself once completed.