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[expwnent]

"All other things being equal, the solution involving magma tends to be the correct one."
Occam's Axe

YES!

I vote for you start to drown them, then activate numerous spikes on the floor.
After that, drop a layer of magma on them.

Would this encase them in obsidian?
 
...is there anything that can survive that?

[Psychoceramics]

Dwarf Fortress:
Ignoring Occam's Razor since 1050.

well obviously, the razor is the beard's natural enemy

[forsaken1111]

...is there anything that can survive that?

No, nothing currently in the game can survive being frozen or encased in obsidian, as far as I know. Nor is there any way to mod it. Like being crushed by a cave-in, I believe it is an automatic death.

[Hoborobo234]

Cave in is all or nothing

[forsaken1111]

Cave in is all or nothing

What do you mean?

[smjjames]

Cave in is all or nothing

What do you mean?

Meaning you either do survive (often with injuries, which if bad enough, may kill), or you get crushed.

[Auldrin]

I wouldn't call potentially fatal wounds "nothing" so all or nothing is kind of flawed here.

[Lord Shonus]

"All other things being equal, the solution involving magma tends to be the correct one."
Occam's Axe

And now I have a new sig.

[forsaken1111]

Cave in is all or nothing

What do you mean?

Meaning you either do survive (often with injuries, which if bad enough, may kill), or you get crushed.

Do you have any testing to back this up? I tested this theory months ago because I was curious, and no matter what happened if a cave-in landed ON a dwarf he died. I did 10 tests with a constructed floor tile, 10 with a constructed wall, and 10 each with natural floor and natural wall tiles. If the dwarf is pushed into another object by the force of the 'dust' then he can sustain injuries, but that is not from the cave-in hitting him.

As far as I can tell NOTHING can survive a cave-in landing on them.

[smjjames]

Yea I remember that test you did a couple months ago.

What if the dwarf was standing on TOP of the tile that caved in (which can happen all too easily with channeling or deconstructing floors)? I was probably thinking of any cave-in situation and not just ones where a cave-in falls directly on a dwarf under it.

It was just a case of us thinking of different situations, you thinking of only cave ins on top of dwarves and me thinking of any cave in situation.

Edit: I think I may have misread the quotes. Me and forsaken were thinking of similar things, but yea not quite sure what hoborobo is referring to.

[forsaken1111]

Well if he was standing on top I imagine it would be the same as any falling damage. I haven't tried that yet.

[Blackburn]

I remember a small cave-in heavily injuring but not killing (until later) a craftsdwarf.

But I cannot exactly recall if he was directly below the falling floors or if he was just next to it.

[forsaken1111]

I remember a small cave-in heavily injuring but not killing (until later) a craftsdwarf.

But I cannot exactly recall if he was directly below the falling floors or if he was just next to it.

From my testing I've seen that dwarves can be 'pushed into' walls and take collision damage, can be blown off of ledges and take falling damage, or a combination of the two. I did once (I think) see someone run into a donkey and take damage, but that could also have been from a fall.

[Forumsdwarf]

And now I have a new sig.

Honored!

well obviously, the razor is the beard's natural enemy

LOL!

[XSI]

Well if he was standing on top I imagine it would be the same as any falling damage. I haven't tried that yet.

Confirming this, dwarves seem to falls lower then floors, so it will almost be like a cartoon that he keeps going about his business until he notices the floor is gone, and then he falls.