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Fun On Arrival
« on: August 04, 2013, 12:05:06 pm »
So I just embarked on an excellent site, and what do I see?



ETA: Save can be found at http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7877 , if you'd like to have a go.
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Re: Fun On Arrival
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2013, 12:06:23 pm »
That isn't a swarm of zombie keas is it?
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« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2013, 12:08:09 pm »
I guarantee it's a swarm of zombie somethings.
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« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2013, 12:09:21 pm »
No.

That's a roc lair.

A multigenerational roc lair.

It contains 35 nests.

For a total of 73 rocs.

Plus 1-3 unhatched eggs per nest.

I haven't unpaused yet. I think I'm going to die.
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« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2013, 12:11:03 pm »
a.k.a. haha you're screwed bigtime.
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Re: Fun On Arrival
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2013, 12:15:35 pm »
Quote from: Button on August 04, 2013, 12:09:21 pm
No.

That's a roc lair.

A multigenerational roc lair.

It contains 35 nests.

For a total of 73 rocs.

Plus 1-3 unhatched eggs per nest.

I haven't unpaused yet. I think I'm going to die.
If you can escape, or if you reclaim, get cages and mechanisms to build lots of cage traps.  Use lots of cage traps to cage all the Rocs.  Tame them as your own private army or War Rocs.
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« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2013, 01:37:57 pm »
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You must capture and subdue the rocs!
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« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2013, 03:59:56 pm »
Rocs who live there will be immune to traps. You try to use a cave-in to knock them out on top of a cage trap, though.
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« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2013, 04:13:17 pm »
Or you can checkerboard a wooden trainingspear/cagetrap hallway and have them dodge into cages.
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« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2013, 04:40:10 pm »
I figure I'll start by corralling them in a safe place - probably with a hatch cover-from-below bait-and-switch - and later use either a webber or a cave-in to get them into cage traps.

At the moment I mostly need them to not be a threat to incoming caravans. It turns out that none of the shallow nor deep metals at this site were iron. Normally this would be enough for me to abandon and try again... but there are 73 rocs here.

By the way, it turns out that the lair pictured there is only one of two roc lairs on my embark. The other is much smaller - a single roc with a single nest. So the pictured lair only has 34 nests and 72 rocs. Sorry for the misinformation.
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Re: Fun On Arrival
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2013, 04:47:44 pm »
Quote from: Button on August 04, 2013, 04:40:10 pm

By the way, it turns out that the lair pictured there is only one of two roc lairs on my embark. The other is much smaller - a single roc with a single nest. So the pictured lair only has 34 nests and 72 rocs. Sorry for the misinformation.

'Only' 72, geesh :D

Good luck in your quest to rook some rocs!
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« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2013, 06:51:11 pm »
Oh dear.

Migrants spawned right next to the lair.

Note that dwarven civilization died out in this world 300 years ago...

So yeah, there's one of the two migrant waves I'm going to get, ever, down the drain.
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« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2013, 06:52:27 pm »
Better set child:0 and baby:0

All I can say.
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« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2013, 07:16:23 pm »
UPLOAD THE SAVE. DEAR GOD UPLOAD THE SAVE.
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« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2013, 07:18:36 pm »
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