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[rtg593]

This happened entirely by accident, but it's actually pretty awesome.

My entrance tunnel runs along side a river right before a waterfall, so my "trap" is, they enter the entrance tunnel, I shut it off from the outside world and the fortress, close the floodgates on the waterfall, and reroute the river through my entrance.

My original hope was that the river would flow rapidly enough to flush enemies out the exit and they'd drop into the whirlpool-like area from the 2 side rivers meeting under the waterfall from the 3rd.

Instead, anything in there drowns and slowly moves towards the exit. The exciting part, however, is that when I routed the river through my entrance, I GOT 12 FISH swimming in there:p close the river off, water levels drop, they start flopping around.... My dwarves go and collect them all :-D

I could actually set this up so I never need to risk another fisherdwarf going over the falls, just keep bringing in fish, and the haulers carry them down...

I feel this is a pretty dwarfy activity, myself:p

[Talvieno]

I think you've hit upon a pretty good idea... If you could manage to keep your fortress impregnable at the same time, it'd be perfect as an early source of food, great for those hardcore players who like to embark with nothing but a pick and an axe.

[NedeN]

Sounds pretty cool, so you can constantly get around 10+ fish? Think we can get a pic as a reference

[rtg593]

Sounds pretty cool, so you can constantly get around 10+ fish? Think we can get a pic as a reference

I will endeavor to do so:p I have only done it once, but they came in pretty quick. Soon as this siege is over (read, I open the river to kill them all MWAHAHAHA), I'll see how many fish I get the second time and get a screen :-D

EDIT:

Well, I can see up to 6 at a time, as  I was about to shut the intake so it would drain... Winter hit, and froze the waterfall. While it's kinda cool seeing the water flow frozen in midair, I do still have 20-some goblin siegers outside, and my main entrance is now frozen at both ends with 6/7 water in it, lol...

Hmm... I'm going to uncap the aquifer at the bottom of the stairs and open the inner door. That'll drain it. Lets see if I can survive this tantrum spiral long enough, lol

E2: While I wait for the passage to drain, enjoy these pictures :-D

Spoiler: before (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: after (click to show/hide)

[rtg593]

K, so here's where you can see 8 at once, all nice and pretty (all shad).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And here's where you can see there's actually at least 11, due to my cats getting free and attacking the "vermin." 10 shad, 1 char.

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I hate cats...

[FrisianDude]

Heh. Trollfish. Naw. Anyway, I thought vermin fish (like shad) disappeared when water levels grow too low?

[rtg593]

Heh. Trollfish. Naw. Anyway, I thought vermin fish (like shad) disappeared when water levels grow too low?

(shrug) Not for me, anyway. My dwarves came and collected them. I'da gotten a pick of that, too, if it hadn't been for the cats...

And ya, I like my waterfall, lol. None of those corpses or trolls actually made it into my fort... They all dodged the dogs stationed in the entrance and fell over the waterfall :-D

EDIT: Of course, if it was a different type of fish, last time, then vermin might disappear. All I know is, they were still there at 2/7, and it was at 1/7 my dwarves came at got em last time. Dang cat. Winter's almost over. I'll try again:p

PS, fort population is down from 120 to 79... I think i just might survive the tantrum, lol.

[miauw62]

I think you've hit upon a pretty good idea... If you could manage to keep your fortress impregnable at the same time, it'd be perfect as an early source of food, great for those hardcore players who like to embark with nothing but a pick and an axe.

If you have a waterfall (and a cliff), its quite easy, only flying mounts would be a problem.