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[Rat Of Wisdom]

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My original plan was to build one of these every 10 or 20 tiles, a fair distance away from the fort proper, as an early warning system to at least let me know where the gobs are coming from. Then I realized gobs don't sneak so it'd be rather useless. (I haven't incurred sufficient elvish wrath either, yet).

I'm wondering, however, if this might be a little more useful against thieves when built somewhat closer to base and closer together. I'll build them regardless (I'm currently working on a megaproject), but I'm curious about your thoughts in the meantime.

Dwarven landmines (support + floor + pressure plate) might be a wee bit more useful versus sieges, hmm?

[Volatar]

Dwarven landmines (support + floor + pressure plate) might be a wee bit more useful versus sieges, hmm?

Wouldn't stone fall traps be more effective? And safe for your dwarves?

[Lord Dakoth]

Collapsing floor landmines are more dwarfy and exciting, so shut yer booze-hole.

[Rat Of Wisdom]

Yes, undoubtedly, but that wouldn't be very dwarfy, would it? Oh holy balls you ninja'd me. Dwarven minds think alike.

Also, my champions (and the ones I'll start training once I finally get around to smithing them some armor) will be all the "effective" I need, but considering they're vastly outnumbered they need to neutralize enemy mobility. Landmines would do that reasonably efficiently, as one tile collapsing knocks out everything within a decent radius, right? (If necessary, I could increase the yield by expanding the 1x1 atop the support, perhaps to a 3x3.)

It'd be a lot less work for my masons and architects, and they'll be sufficiently far from base that they won't harm anything. And they should function as the early-warning system I wanted, as the game should pause and center the view on cave-ins, even artificial ones.

[Jay]

as the game should pause and center the view on cave-ins, even artificial ones.

Does.

A section of the cavern has collapsed!  x6614

That was the result of a similar trap gone horribly horribly wrong.

[Danjen]

Sounds like it went horribly right to me.

[Cheddarius]

What about just having the entire area around your fortress collapse several z-levels the moment anything trips a plate? Granted it'd kill most of your dwarves, but it'd also be incredibly awesome.