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[Rowanas]

There will never be enough ways to kill. The best any game could ever do is entertain you so much that by the time you're bored of everything, you've forgotten the things you did first. If any game can do it, DF can.

[detinith]

There will never be enough ways to kill. The best any game could ever do is entertain you so much that by the time you're bored of everything, you've forgotten the things you did first. If any game can do it, DF can.

I gotta admit, for a game where killing isn't a goal *cough* there sure are a lot of ways to kill stuff.

Seriously, babies attempt suicide. There is literally NO game with that feature. I promise.

[Sphalerite]

I was under the impression that they would, in fact, hang there, but not lethally. They'd just hang out until you found a way to get them back up.

But will a chained hanging female animal give birth, while hanging over a ten Z level drop with a butcher's shop at the bottom?  I must go test this now.

[Rowanas]

But the animal would be tame so the offspring would be tame, and you can't eat tame animals unless they've been butchered.

[Sphalerite]

Untamed animals can be chained too.  It's just a bit trickier to do.

I will have my automated meat dispensing machine one way or the other!

[Random832]

Apparently, dwarven restraints work on the honour system.

Anything less just wouldn't be dwarfy.

[Kidiri]

I was under the impression that they would, in fact, hang there, but not lethally. They'd just hang out until you found a way to get them back up.

Or down. Whichever is easier...

[Sordid]

What I want to know is why you'd want to use such a mundane and undwarven method of execution anyway.

[MC Dirty]

Seriously, babies attempt suicide. There is literally NO game with that feature. I promise.

Actually, Toady said in this 4-hour-interview that melancholic dwarves don't actively commit suicide, but their pathing algorithm just completely ignores pits and such. They go for the shortest route. Unfortunately, they can't fly.

[Shad0wyone]

Seriously, babies attempt suicide. There is literally NO game with that feature. I promise.

Actually, Toady said in this 4-hour-interview that melancholic dwarves don't actively commit suicide, but their pathing algorithm just completely ignores pits and such. They go for the shortest route. Unfortunately, they can't fly.

So, instead of making them suicidal, being melancholy just makes them even stupider?

[Limul Thak]

I'm pretty certain that everything makes dwarves dumber in these parts.

[Neyvn]

So let me get this straight...
Chained Animal/Prisoner is standing on retractable bridge. Lever is pulled, bridge retracts out from under the animal/prisoner. animal/prisoner falls a Z level but only one. Hangs for some time then is released from chain...

Hmmm, Execution Pits???

Place prisoner on the chain near retractable bridge.
Retract bridge they become released from chain fall short distance.
Animal/Prisoner becomes unattached,
Return bridge to normal state,
Repeat.
Send Marksmen to their stations one Z down where Fortifications are caved into the walls...

Profit???

[DeathOfRats]

I'm pretty certain that everything makes dwarves dumber in these parts.

Being dwarves already makes dwarves dumber...