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Author Topic: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.  (Read 11951 times)

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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2012, 12:07:14 am »

I wanna see what happens when you launch a gobbo straight up and then let him fall. It's partially unrelated, but it can be done via minecart.
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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2012, 01:45:44 am »

so basically, there is some kind of inverse force field around the fortresses that makes it so anything actually living in the fort cannot leave? thats interesting. I find your whole test interesting. continue sir, let us see what else you may find. how about if something is pinched between the edge and a flying cart? would it have the same result?
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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2012, 01:57:59 am »

I told them. I told them all. You can never leave.

Welcome to the Fortress California.

Such a deadly place (Such a deadly place)
Such a beaten face
Plenty of room at the Fortress California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can death it here

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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2012, 04:30:21 am »

so basically, there is some kind of inverse force field around the fortresses that makes it so anything actually living in the fort cannot leave?
Only wild animals, fleeing thieves and siegers and caravans/diplomats are allowed to leave. Or Dwarves too, if they leave in a burial receptacle..

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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2012, 06:19:47 am »

You can fling full coffins of the map edge? Do the dwarves still count as buried?
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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2012, 06:22:57 am »

You can fling full coffins of the map edge? Do the dwarves still count as buried?
I was thinking more like offering them to the mountainhome caravans so they can go back home.

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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2012, 07:10:44 am »

You can sell full coffins to the mounta...

You can have full coffins that aren't built?
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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2012, 07:13:02 am »

You can have full coffins that aren't built?
1. Build coffin
2. Put dead things inside via burial
3. De-construct coffin

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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #23 on: September 15, 2012, 07:16:07 am »

You can have full coffins that aren't built?
1. Build coffin
2. Put dead things inside via burial
3. De-construct coffin
I thought that coffins emptied when deconstructed. Could you test and screenshot? My current fortresses have a disturbing dearth of dead dwarves.
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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #24 on: September 15, 2012, 08:08:21 am »

Sure, got a few unburied corpses lying around

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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #25 on: September 21, 2012, 11:10:28 am »

Sure, got a few unburied corpses lying around

did you get any results on this? I'm curious.
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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #26 on: September 21, 2012, 11:26:57 am »

Sure, got a few unburied corpses lying around

did you get any results on this? I'm curious.

I suppose I could test that when I get home, if I remember to do so.
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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #27 on: September 21, 2012, 02:22:25 pm »

If I sell a coffin with a corpse in it...will it cause a ghost to haunt the fortress? If not, my fortress's main export is going to be masterwork obsidian coffins; complete with with body!
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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2012, 02:31:03 pm »

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Re: !!Science!! of launching dwarves against the map border.
« Reply #29 on: September 21, 2012, 04:01:54 pm »

Sure, got a few unburied corpses lying around
did you get any results on this? I'm curious.
Just remembered I don't even get trade caravans anymore, so someone else'll have to pick it up :(

/is hoping to not have to make a new save and wait a season for science :P]
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