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[Noble Digger]

Underground content spoilers herein.

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So the forgotten beast Rubal, an Aluminum humanoid with great mandibles and a gaunt appearance (and deadly spittle), emerged from the depths. My military are rapetrucks with no brakes. They engage Rubal in combat and within a few moments, they have cut off both his arms, both his mandibles, and both his feet. They have broken (red text) all other remaining body parts. However, Rubal is not dead... Or incapacitated. In fact, by all appearances this creature is immortal and refuses to die from any amount of combat with my legendary axedwarves.

My soldiers are armored pretty well and can fight this creature for 10+ minutes real time without killing him or getting hurt beyond bruises. However, the bastard won't die. I've tried modding quite a few different ways and reloading from before the battle to see if I could change the outcome. Weakened the properties of Aluminum, strengthened those of Iron and Battle Axes, strengthened dwarves and modified contact areas and the like. Rubal is immortal.

The one solution I haven't used--likely to work, but I want to see what else there is--is making Aluminum boil at a low temperature. I'm more curious what everyone else's experiences have been with Forgotten Beasts. My first two were a giant one-eyed pink-feathered Tyrannosaurid and a giant winged, pink-feathered Snail beast, which the axedwarves unceremoniously hewed to pieces. Each yielded some 300+ units of meat. Rubal is immortal?

[CppThis]

Very common, very nasty bug.  The problem in a nutshell is that creatures made of inorganic materials e.g. aluminum are unkillable by normal means as they have no organs, or at least none that can be reached.  I myself have had several surface megabeasts with htis issue, all but one in fact.

Cave-in traps will kill anything under them, including megabeasts.  I recommend making use of this 'feature' at least until this mess gets sorted.

[Ethereal.Frog]

Or, take a horrible amount of time and to knock it unconscious and cage trap it, then dump it into magma. Unless inorganic FBs don't breathe. Dropping rocks on it is always and option though.

[Firehound]

The only real non-hack ways to kill him are:
1.obsidianize me captain: Cast an obsidian block on him. will most likely require a preset obsidian trap that you can activate on command.
2. I'm Melting what a world..... : Flood it with magma. Aluminum melts, the beast should eventually turn to slag from hot hot hot magma. just in case, use water to block off exits with obsidian.
3. One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner.: drope a natural wall on it.

[Hyperturtle]

I usually let the soldiers go at it for a long time.  Given enough time someone usually beheads the critter (unless it has no head). Only once did I apply magma, and that was because of a FPS drop I experienced when the megabeast was trapped, pacing, and constantly emitting steam. I have also taken to walling off sections of the cavern as I got sick of moonstone and sterling silver megabeasts strolling in.

Letting trees grow near the cavern edges can also make for decent barriers, but if you have a wide open space you probably will need to wall it off.  Otherwise you'll be ending task quite frequently.

Forgotten beasts, as far as I can tell, do not trigger cage traps--or any traps.  They walk right through them, so there is no slowing them down unless you can flood them away somehow.

[Josephus]

Drop the goddamn roof on him, see how immortal he is.

[Bronze Dog]

I'm uncertain of this, myself, but I was reading a chunk of the DF wiki. Apparently anything can be killed if you sever its upper body from its lower body. The exception are oozes, who are immune to this severing and thus are supposed to be immune to death by normal combat.

If this is true, I'd suggest bringing in dwarves skilled with some good quality/material slashing weapons and hope they eventually get a severing critical in that spot.

[Eric Blank]

I'm uncertain of this, myself, but I was reading a chunk of the DF wiki. Apparently anything can be killed if you sever its upper body from its lower body. The exception are oozes, who are immune to this severing and thus are supposed to be immune to death by normal combat.

If this is true, I'd suggest bringing in dwarves skilled with some good quality/material slashing weapons and hope they eventually get a severing critical in that spot.

Actually, there are many, many creature types used by the random generator that have only one body piece. Slugs, for example.
Axe men are the only really potent warriors anyway, so you should always have at least a few around.

If you want to beat this thing (really anything until toady gets the combat/military totally worked out) your best bet is to use cave in traps/cave ins to smash it/seal it off along with your military, even though it sucks that you have to lose them. They'll be gaining a lot of experience from long fights in whatever skill they happen to be using, which is most likely wrestling since they're such idiots right now. You can try having most of them pull out by removing them from the squad/placing them in an off-duty squad which should cause them to become civies and run away at some point. occasionally...