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Author Topic: See that corpse in the moat? Thats your fault too! That miasma? Also your fault!  (Read 979 times)

highmax28

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See that corpse in the moat? Thats your fault too! That miasma? Also your fault!
« on: September 02, 2012, 09:51:01 am »
I got a problem with my fortress and I keep finding corpses of carp and dwarves in my moat... Problem: the moat is underground, so miasma can spread. Any idea other then waiting for it to decompose for it to stop preading miasma?
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Re: See that corpse in the moat? Thats your fault too! That miasma? Also your fault!
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2012, 09:56:31 am »
Magma? Draining it? Pretty much only ways I know of that'd either destroy the corpses or allow it to be retrived to dumped elsewhere :D
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Re: See that corpse in the moat? Thats your fault too! That miasma? Also your fault!
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2012, 01:27:27 pm »
Floor over the moat, or build bridges over it, or something. Then wait.
Alternatively, expose the moat to the sun, then seal up anything that you need to.
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Re: See that corpse in the moat? Thats your fault too! That miasma? Also your fault!
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2012, 10:42:20 pm »
I always build my moats as double moats for this reason; a layer of bridges one z-level above the bottom acts as a miasma cap and lets me drain and retrieve useful things from the bottom, as well as flush it with magma to keep item count down.
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