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[Gus Smedstad]

I sealed off a one-eyed giant spider Forgotten Beast (poisonous bite, not webs, oh well), and decided to give drowning it a try.  Getting the water into the sealed area went much better than the last time I tried a drowning room... but the spider is just sitting there in 7/7 water, with a ceiling overhead, and not seeming to mind.  I went off doing more exploratory mining, I made it down to the Magma Sea (which is only 9 levels below the spider-trap), dug several test holes to look into the sea to check for a possible magma pipe (doesn't seem likely, but finding out seems worth the effort).  All the while, he's still in there, breathing water through his spiracles without a care.

Do they drown?  Or is this just another aspect of invertebrate immortality on 31.04?   I was thinking magma at first, but now I'm thinking maybe I'll herd him into my pit-trap.  It will means sealing the trap off entirely, instead of leaving the access stairway I have now to clean out survivors and periodic cleaning.

Or I could make a little arena with the Bronze Colossus and the spider, see if they'll fight after all.  Yes, it's still that game, post save-scumming, and I've got a fairly heavily damaged caged Colossus sitting in inventory.

 - Gus

[Raviaric]

Pour magma on it. Let it fulfill its life's goal of impersonating Han Solo. Then make a ☼forgotten beast short sword☼.

[Satarus]

Is there a wall over top him?  Unless he has the NOBREATH or AMBHIBIOUS tags, he'll drown if he is in 7/7 water with a roof overtop.  Without the roof, he'll just sit there swimming.

[numerobis]

"7/7 water, with a ceiling overhead" kind of indicates there is indeed a ceiling.

Maybe this FB is nobreath or amphibious; are all of them?  In particular, are the humanoids?

[Ultimarr]

I am 90% sure that they are immune to drowning traps, and possibly magma. Both at once on the other hand...

[Josephus]

Obsidian^tm: when magma just won't cut it.