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[Skizelo]

Lovely save.
Also acceptable; The diagram doesn't show it, but the west side is a freakish 7/7 column of water.

[RickiusMaximus]

quote:Originally posted by ShadowDragon8685:
<STRONG>If you're like me, you're absoloutely paranoid. You'll set up a complicated system to prevent anything from getting in by simply walling off the entire level of the fortress that touches ground floor - IE, not even megabeasts can get in, since there's no damn doors to claw down.</STRONG>

Wait, how do the caravans get in?

You have heard of drawbridges right?

[Rafal99]

I had similar problem when i was building floodgates under the room i planned to flood goblins in.
It looked like this:

code:

OOO       O - wall
O.O       . - floor   
OXO       X - floodgate i wanted to build 
...

There was a floor hatch above it, the floodgate was planned to hold the water in the room above until the goblins drown, then to release the water so i can use the whole thing again. I was building 5 floodgates like this.
After building all these, i discovered that i have 5 dwarves trapped behind the floodgates, so i deconstructed all the floodgates and started building again hoping that i was simply unlucky and my dwarves won't make this mistake again.
I was wrong.
I tried to build each of the floodgates 3 times and that stupid dwarves were ALWAYS building them from wrong side blocking their way to escape. I almost went Stark, raving mad!   :mad:

Then i accidentally discovered a solution to the problem:
I had to destroy one of the walls near the floodgate, then build the floodgate, then rebuild the wall. It looked like this:

code:

Step 1:     Step 2:      Step 3:
OOO         OOO          OOO
O.O         O.O          O.O
O..         OX.          OXO
...         ...          ...

That way dwarves could go outside after building the floodgate, and weren't getting stuck when building the wall because they could build it only from outside.

[ June 10, 2008: Message edited by: Rafal99 ]