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Author Topic: Help me be more efficient with sieges.  (Read 1722 times)

Yag Alone

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Re: Help me be more efficient with sieges.
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2008, 05:49:34 am »

Another alternative for floodgates in case of lack of bauxite : Pumps. Green glass is magma resistant and is the cheapest if you have a patch of sand somewhere. Else, you will have to use stone block and metal parts.

My own siege cleaner device is an incinerator. A 1x1 closed room, with one pump on the side, a glass grate on the floor to drain the magma to a large evaporation chamber below and a dumping zone above.

I just dump everything in it (I don't care about the GCS stuff, my fortress can buy anything just with the obsidian crafts), turn on the pump for a couple of second to set the leather and clothes on fire, wait for a few days and just unforbid all the metal or bone based items left.

This is also a nice kitten disposal device *grin*
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James Sunderland

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Re: Help me be more efficient with sieges.
« Reply #16 on: December 08, 2008, 09:31:22 am »

Isn't there an option that makes remnants of sieges forbidden on arrival? And by arrival I mean when the goblin that was wearing it is killed.
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LegacyCWAL

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Re: Help me be more efficient with sieges.
« Reply #17 on: December 08, 2008, 12:43:35 pm »

options -> Forbid
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Re: Help me be more efficient with sieges.
« Reply #18 on: December 08, 2008, 05:59:03 pm »

build a drowning chamber that drains directly onto an armor/weapons/goods stockpile.  It may take a few flushes to get the iron items to travel out of the chamber, but they will get there eventually.
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Re: Help me be more efficient with sieges.
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2008, 01:45:52 am »

Isn't there an option that makes remnants of sieges forbidden on arrival? And by arrival I mean when the goblin that was wearing it is killed.

A very, very useful option which has saved many lives.
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Re: Help me be more efficient with sieges.
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2008, 02:27:35 am »

Debris Field, lethal, hypothetical, and lets there be a use for those channels and lava farms.

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