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GavJ

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Submarine idea? Artifact cages
« on: April 23, 2014, 02:31:41 pm »
1) Get an artifact cage (I don't know how to mod this in in order to test)
2) Link it to a lever.
3) Trap a dwarf miner in it by making him unconscious and on top of it.
4) cast a bunch of obsidian all around it.
5) Remove support and let it fall into the ocean or magma sea. (on top of a non SMR magma ocean floor if using the magma sea)

The artifact furniture should survive cave-in and hold up the ceiling above them, I think? Then maybe? the lever will still work to release the dwarf.
Supplies could be similarly sent by placing them in artifact bins/barrels next to the cage to give him a pick to use and some seeds.

If the lever doesn't still work, then alternatively you could minimally modify dwarves to have the [GNAWER] tag, which will let them escape from cages on their own. Conveniently, it is bugged to only work on artifact cages! So it won't influence any other gameplay except this. I think this is reasonable, as from a roleplay perspective, the cage is supposed to be a protection not a prison.
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Re: Submarine idea? Artifact cages
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2014, 03:10:56 pm »
Unfortunately, the cage would deconstruct on cave-in and most likely end up crushed or thrown outside the obsidian altogether. Believe it or not, I've tried something like this before.
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Re: Submarine idea? Artifact cages
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2014, 03:20:53 pm »
The wiki claims that artifact furniture survives cave-ins?

Does it only mean that it survives falling on its own, and that anything on top of it will still destroy it? (like a dwarf)
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