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[Mentalpatient87]

Thinking about it, I really hope they tire and fall. That would make for some pretty funny "you brought this up on yourself" traps.

[FallenAngel]

It'd be especially funny for weapon lords, since stunned things can't dodge and temporarily lose the ability to avoid traps (I think). "Hah! Your masterwork steel axe weapon traps may have killed my entire squad, but I can still climb up your walls!"
(Four days later)
*Goblin Spearmaster falls off*
*massive gibbing*
(Ten days ago)
Urist McWeaponTrapDesigner: "As you can see here, weapon lords dodge weapon traps most of the time. Our typical approach is to trap them in cages. However, ones that become exhausted can't dodge, and climbing tires anything that can tire, so this design should kill ALL OF THE GOBLINS. Also elves. It also has a backup system to spew magma everywhere and kill everything."

[GavJ]

Hopefully in the next version the dwarves will climb to their destinations, thus avoiding the "stand on construction site" problems.

I really hope they can't climb carrying huge boulders... that would be silly.
Also, IIRC, you're not supposed to be able to climb on smooth walls.

Constructed walls are not smooth nor can be smoothed, but as FA said overhangs, solved.

Yes they are if made of blocks. Rough if made of boulders.

Also, unlike a boulder, a block would make sense with a backpack while climbing, or something. But still awfully complicated sounding.

[jcochran]

Well, if they do climb and hang on walls with a floor overhang, it sounds like a very nice wall construction would be.

1. Have a ditch with a nice slope on the exterior to allow gobbo access. The inner surface is a nice wall with a floor overhang. The floor is even with the ground outside the ditch (and of course far enough away to avoid the jumping issue.

2. When gobbos are hanging from the wall underneath the floor, apply the universal dwarven solution to all problems.... Magma in the ditch.

[krenshala]

The solution to remove the hangers is to have towers every ten to twenty tiles that allow marksdwarves to see along the length of the wall and shoot at anyone trying to climb up.  Look up "star forts" for a nicely engineered meatspace version of this.  No wall is safe for an enemy to stand next to as all are visible to the defenders and inside at least one field of fire (and usually two or three).