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[Guilliman]

fill a house with water and watch how random human 456156 needs to open that door to get inside..

oh man, that would be hilarious. 


"Honey, I'm ho*WHOOOOSH*..."

[pushy]

What I want to see:

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   O========O
   | TARGET |
#  ##########  #
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~ <---- 10-story execution
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It may be the dwarvenly way, but by using supports and stuff you're making the execution needlessly complicated. Simple modification to your plan:

   O========O
   | TARGET |
#############  #
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~ <---- 10-story execution
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Get a miner to channel the tile highlighted in orange after you've dug out the entire pit, the whole thing goes crashing down. People often use a support to remotely crash the building so their miner doesn't get caught in the destruction...but if the thing's crashing 10+ levels down, the miner shouldn't be caught by the cave-in dust cloud, so you've got nowt to worry 'bout

[Marko]

and where's the fun if there isn't a little bit of danger?

[Elliott_Thinas]

and where's the fun if there isn't a little bit of danger?

I once had a collection of mountian gnome cages on a constructed floor over a lava pipe. Thinking there would be no danger, I asked my favourite armourer to remove the floor tile connecting it to the land.
One giant cloud of dust and magma mist later, the stunned armourer is burning to death in the bottom of a magma pipe. I wouldn't have changed a thing.

[Neruz]

Cave In dust is actually created by falling, not impacting, and it will happily suck miners in after it.

Even so...

[Heron TSG]

Try and find a location with 3-4 towns next to each other and try it then... You could build a mind-bogglingly hugenormous tower!

[Neruz]

Try and find a location with 3-4 towns next to each other and try it then... You could build a mind-bogglingly hugenormous tower!

I don't think such a location exists.

[Itnetlolor]

Well, the support method could always still work, however, if you want to multi-destruct, it can still somewhat be applied. The lack of floors on both ends prevent the "prisoners" from escaping their place (then again, carving away the path out the door also helps).

Anyway, if anyone feels like leveling an entire city simultaneously (but still retaining land), you can always apply this to all targeted buildings, and flip the lever to take them all out. Hold the town ransom.

Modified plans (support-wise):
   O========O
   | TARGET |
# ###########  #
~ I            ~ <---- It's still plenty to allow a
~              ~       cave-in sans the risk of sucking
~              ~       the dwarf in.
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~
~              ~ <---- 10-story execution
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(Thanks, indirectly, for telling me about tt, works better than code :smacks forehead:  )

I got another interesting idea, It's a method of execution-cave-in that only destroys the interior of buildings, allowing for easier salvage of buildings (especially towers). However, doing this to dark towers may prove a bit challenging, but possible.

    ========     <---- Wall or Floor, whatever works better.
    I
   O========O
   | TARGET |^   <---- To add shame to the target, make them feel responsible
################       by triggering a pressure switch at their front door (or wherever fits best).
~~~~%%%%%%%%~~~~ <---- 1-story execution basement (optional)
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"As you can see Urist, this home has all the amenities you could ever need. The only catch is that you need to replace the floors, the stairs, and the roof."