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[wierd]

The idea with the minecart mincing machine, is to have several loaded carts on the same track, powered by in-line impulse ramps.

This is essentially just a really long 1 tile wide hallway with all the appropriate twists, walls, ramps and tracks needed to exploit impulse ramps, leading to the candycane.

It the wraps around the candy spire, and comes back into the fortress using the same technique, down a different path, the closes the circuit.

This way you load up the cart, give it a push, then drop more carts onto the track from overhead. Rine, repeat, until all the carts are on the track, and sweeping the halls.

Then you use the sacrificial fishery worker assigned to mining duty with the lead pick to open the candycane.

Clown custard for everyone!

[edgefigaro]

So, I have never made a serious attempt on the circus. I breached them once, I don't remember if it was on accident or not, in the first year or early second year, and they slaughtered my then-desert fortress. This map has a ton of cotton candy, to the tune of I have 8 of each sword/axe/spear and 18 full suits of candy armor, and I still have ~200 candy wafers left to go. Now I have more void hammers then I will ever know what to do with.

I'm never, ever going to find a better map to military the circus.

A question about the curious underground structure. I know when I deconstruct the sword, I'll spawn demons. Will that replace an erie glowing pit at the bottom of my candy spires?

Unrelated Question: If I drop a platform of filled coffins/slabs into the magma sea, will those dwarves stay tombed/memorialized?

BTW, save is here if anyone is interested.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7857

[KingBacon]

I cannot say, but here's my experience with the curious structure:

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 HUSKS, like 150 Animal People. You will lose legendary wardorfs to head punches. For me it was like 5/40. Accidentally breached the spire trying to get 60 suites of ady armor, long story short demons got into the third cavern layer through a magma chute and I had to carve fortifications into the walls. Lots of dorfs went blind and some melee soldiers died in the mop up operation. One spearmaster survived having all of his fat burned off and all the critters on the third level went extinct.

But I digress. Opening the curious structure after the fact lead to MORE FUCKING DEMONS and these guys were different that the initial hoard and OH FUCKING GOD. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. Like 100z levels of flesh rotting, face melting, blinding !!FUN!! 

I am interested in slade hammers vs clowns though. I mean they do not have internal organs, but if a hammer hits something hard enough it can cause things to fly off.