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jamesadelong

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The sad plight of the Forgotten Beast and the Titan.
« on: July 06, 2011, 10:22:40 am »
I really must enquire,
Before all my dworfs expire,
Of miamsa, goblins and rot.
If there is any possible way,
To let the nasty beasties say:
"Please let us throw in our lot".
I very quickly tire,
Of sitting in this mire,
Killing the goblins up for hire,
Burning the elves with fire,
And fixing all the other problems dire,
And so I must ask,
What is there to do?
About a problem that makes me blue,
That involves putting beasts into their slot?
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Re: The sad plight of the Forgotten Beast and the Titan.
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2011, 01:04:45 pm »
Nevermind, I figured out how to do it. Twin dragons, a seemingly endless cave system through the three caverns and an apparent infestation of GCSs in a haunted forest did the trick.

Three dworfs (Miner, Farmer, Doctor) dead and we haven't even started work on the food supply yet.
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Re: The sad plight of the Forgotten Beast and the Titan.
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2011, 01:05:54 pm »
Good work with that first post there ;)
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Re: The sad plight of the Forgotten Beast and the Titan.
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2011, 01:06:22 pm »
Firstly, excellent poem! :) Loved it.

Secondly, if I'm reading this right, you want to use doors as bait to lure them in, then close the door behind them with a drawbridge. I made a how-to thread for a similar problem a while back, found here:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=76124.msg1926051#msg1926051
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Re: The sad plight of the Forgotten Beast and the Titan.
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2011, 01:19:00 pm »
Dear sweet Armok. That is genius. Here I was, with my little redoubt thinking I was clever, well sir. I have to say that blows my covered entrance out of the water. Speaking of water, wouldn't you be able to use a pressure plate to open the bridge? Say, measure the rough time it takes for the FB to wander onto the bridge and set up a water system so that the moment the FB moves past pressure plate 1, it releases water into a separate circuit, then as it crosses the bridge, the water hits pressure plate B opens a floodgate to drain itself and opens the bridge? No dworfs needed.
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Re: The sad plight of the Forgotten Beast and the Titan.
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2011, 02:02:15 pm »
FBs are trapavoid and don't activate pressure plates. If you want to make the system automatic, you'll have to pit a bait animal over a civilian-triggered pressure plate that's linked to the bridge through a NOT logic gate. The bridge will raise approximately 300 ticks after the animal dies.
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