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like... blood? like... having floor grates that collect dead invaders' blood and then boil it and then maybe, just maybe... pour it on the remaining invaders? like that? if so, then i agree!

if i put buckets under a grate, will it gather blood?... gotta experiment with those animal blood barrels...

Unfortunately, grates don't just let anything drip down on the level below (assuming there is open space below them, of course). This doesn't stop me from having them at nearly every room entrance along with a "sewer system" every other height level, of course. It's just all non-functional now, though it doubles as a flood prevention and containment mechanism quite nicely.

Quote from: Akjosch on October 13, 2010, 02:46:03 am

Well, parthenogenesis simply doesn't work right now. I added the issue as a feature request to the tracker, #3419, so it doesn't get forgotten.

Feature requests go in the Suggestions forum. The bug tracker is for bugs.

It has a "feature" severity level (which is below "minor") ... why then, exactly?

After I last posted another siege occured  , I can't dump cages as fast as I'm catching goblins...

My solutions to cage problems: Build one cage near the animal stockpile with golins-only cages enabled (and transfer all goblin-filled cages there, either with the "transfer from stockpile" functionality or by disallowing goblin cages everywhere else), build a single cage near it, and assign every single non-thief goblin there. And do it with trolls too. In my recent plays, military goblins never try to break free (though the hauler getting a sudden case of pregnancy or similar might make them free, so have some traps around just in case), and neither do the trolls. I just stuff 100+ of them in a single cage and forget about them until I have a working military, at which points all their items get claimed (d-b-c on the cage) and dumped (make a dump zone a step or two away from the cage, or rebuild the cage near your dump zone, then d-b-d on the cage, then undesignate the cage itself from dumping) and they end up as live target practice for my marksdwarves, by building the cage in my sacrificial pit, attaching a level to it, sealing the pit off and pulling the lever.

Another option would be to use floodgates in place of a bridge for one of the openings, and a bridge for the other.  Floodgates and raising bridges have opposite 'closed' states, so a single lever linked to both will raise the bridge and open the floodgates, or vice-versa.

The problem with that is: building destroyers can then reach the floodgate ...

Now, flying building destroyer are still a problem, but thankfully there aren't all that many of them in the game.

I hope this no evil civs attacking thing is solved soon. Sad to invest so many dwarf years in a fort, to realize that no one except bunnies threathen your fort D:

It looks like it will be fixed in .15. Toady One commented as such in the corresponding bug on the tracker: "This should be fixed up for 0.31.15. It thought they were lizardmen or something and was waiting for you to irritate their cave feature. "

Caveins: There is no such thing as a sand ceiling.

Actually, there is, you can build a tunnel in sand. It's just usually a bloody awful idea without lots of support structure (read: wood), since sand tends to lose cohesiveness very quickly when exposed to air and drying. People (especially kids) get killed by this now and then.

Don't let them in, then? I typically try my hardest to make the fort self-sustained as soon as possible and leave them outside. Whoever survives a year or the first siege, whichever comes first, is ready to join.

I would prefer if we could re-educate the captured people (not necessarily their leaders, of course, just your common foot soldier) and integrate them into the society somehow, or even let them live on top of the land freely, farming and hunting and building their own small community we can have limited trade and interaction with.

In one prior game I tried to make some of the captured goblins and humans from one of the first ambush parties part of my civilisation and friendly through memory hacks, but they just got killed anyway by my soldiers upon release from the cages. It was really sad - one of them was a young human woman, just 19 or 20 at the time I captured her, who I learned was married and had a daughter born only few months before the failed goblin ambush where she participated. Poor girl, I think she missed her child all those years stuck in one of my cages.