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[StagnantSoul]

Thanks. I'll go with that. I heard they still get slower without alcohol, but I had an entire fortress run on three wells and barely noticed the difference.

[Jigowah]

The military squad idea is simple and smart.  Thank you for that khearn.

stagnant, I must admit I find your ballista bloodletting system totally awesome and hilarious.  i love the crazy and violent experiments this game inspires.

My original design for gently getting vampire blood was based on a vampire fist fighting arena.   I would throw goblin prisoners in, let the gore build up (and man it does), throw a bunch of water in and then make the tribe drink.  It was a disaster and the spears are way smarter for this.

Don't forget to smooth your walls or folks can climb out of pits too.

[ImagoDeo]

I've done the vampire fort before.

It's difficult but not impossible to get a sufficient blood pool. Actually running a vampire fort runs face-first into the age-old vampire sobriety bug, which is relatively easy to eradicate if you're willing to mod it out.

[StagnantSoul]

I'll work on the best design to get a spring of life/vamprism well running. I miss the rivers running with blood after extensive battles. But with falling leaves, this would probably murder FPS faster than a vampiric dragon taking on an armless kobold.

[Chevaleresse]

You could put the lever into a small recess and put the upright spears on the tile the vamp would need to stand on. Will blood drain through a grate?

[khearn]

Don't forget to smooth your walls or folks can climb out of pits too.

This is why I specified a 3x3 room and to make the channel in the center of the roof. Although I'll admit I haven't confirmed that this will work. You might need to make the cistern 2 levels deep, so he can't jump up and grab the edge of the hole.

   Keith

[StagnantSoul]

I could also just pre-dig the room with no hole, put a grate over the hole after dug, then place the well, with the vampire in a burrow down there.

[soulmata]

Don't grates prevent wells from working?

[StagnantSoul]

I don't usually deal with grates, flood gates, ponds or most really non-military applicable things, I'm mostly a metal worker and creature handler. So I wouldn't know.

[MDFification]

All I remember about this from Steelhold is not to herd all your vampires into a room and burn them to death.
Also that tantrums + vampires (who I think get some stat boosts) are kind of devastating.