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[Lagslayer]

Osod Vesh Arak

A huge scaly cavy. It has two long, hanging tails and it appears to be emaciated. It's pale taupe are blocky and set far apart. Beware it's deadly dust!



It spawned down in the caverns, but I don't think it can reach my dwarves without flying up.
Can it fly?
How should I fight it?

[nordak]

No fortunately, Do not engage this beast in melee combat, use range or prepare an elaborate trap.  Dust is the most dangerous attack, not to mention it is deadly, that FB could easily become a game ender.

[Lagslayer]

Can I catch him in a cage? I'm thinking maybe ill set up a bunch of cage traps then dig into that area of the cavern. And if it works, I'll take the cage to a sealed area and use him as target practice for my marksdwarves. If they use wooden or bone bolts, they might never kill him. Hmm... he could be worth more alive than dead.

[The Scout]

You can't cage them I think. Trust me, he's worth alot more butchered and made into meals and clothing. Wood bolts also can perform miracles. Just need 10 crossbow men and a few seconds.

[peregarrett]

No, FBs are imunne to usual traps. And they can't be stunned, so cave-in cage trap technic won't work

But you can kill them with cave-in directly on head, or with repeating spike trap

[Lagslayer]

Guess I'll wait for my next wave of migrants and make some marksdwarves. All my military dwarves right now are melee.

[Derp Sandvich]

I wish you good luck on turning that FB itno a pincushion

[MantisMan]

Do you have any hunters out slaughtering the local wildlife?

I usually have a hunter after the second migration wave or so. It pre-trains parts of the military, they check for thieves and child snatchers, and they help bring in food and employment for the butcher, tanner, bone carver, cook, and leatherworker.

How far along in the fort are you, and what kind of biome are you in?

[Archereon]

If you have available magma, try to flood his haunt with it, but be careful that all the paths from the magma source to your fort are walled off with magma safe materials.  Or you could just use some fortified marksdwarves...


But magma is a much more dwarven way to solve problems.

[proxn_punkd]

I did a double-take and then a bunch off high-pitched baby-talk babbling at the thought of an FB guinea pig. I WANT ONE.

[Organum]

But skinnier and with two tails.

[proxn_punkd]

IT'S A GUINEASAURUS REX

[Lagslayer]

I miss Invader Zim . What sort of range does the dust attack have? How much lateral distance? Any vertical distance?

[celem]

Heh, also loved the Zim reference.  You can cage it by the way if you have a GCS caged somewhere and can get it to web a cage trap for you.  However attempting to cage and then weaponise a dust FB is pretty much suicide

Deadly dusts range im not sure on, from what i remember thats about 7-8 tiles in a ring around the beast and i dont think it travels verticaly.  really though, its not cool, dont let anyone breathe it

[Frogwarrior]

Aw man, this sounds like much more Fun than my first (and so far, only) FB which appeared during my fort's second year. I'm doing a seven-dwarf-sealaway thing, so I didn't have a lot to fight it with - fortunately, it was just a giant skink (mind how you spell that) with external ribs and a "hunger for warm blood." Although it did squirt grease all over a dog that it killed. But my solitary warrior with an artifact steel short sword was able to take it down no prob.
Months later, I'm still trying to render down all its fat. It's tough, since it has so much that it clutters the kitchen and each render job takes a week or so.