Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: Feeding the fish  (Read 770 times)

Thanshin

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Feeding the fish
« on: February 04, 2010, 02:39:03 am »
In my last fort, the main entrance trap redirectss a large amount of river into a labyrinth and then it releases it outside the map limit.

During its usage I discovered many fish got trapped inside (and even seemed to attack the orcs but I'm not sure because they were drowning anyway). Which made me ask myself (and now you):

How would you prepare a carp/salmon pool, ready to feed the fish with invaders/nobles and then fish the fish and recover the bones/skulls of both fish and invaders?
Logged

personofshadow

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Feeding the fish
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2010, 03:17:05 am »
The answer surely involves magma, I'm just not sure how
Logged

Urist McOverlord

  • Bay Watcher
  • [Evil_Genius]
    • View Profile
Re: Feeding the fish
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2010, 03:20:59 am »
I'm not going to try to make a diagram (I'm reeeeally bad at them), but you could maybe make your enterance go under a carp-infested river, with an open area below for water exiting. Channel out the floor and replace it with grates or hatches or whatever, but the basic idea is that you drop a river on your enemies, then air-drown any surviving fish.

Of course the natural flaw in this plan is the distinct and noted lack of magma.
Logged
Magma: The cause of, and solution to, all life's problems.

Quote from: silverskull39 on March 25, 2010, 07:29:31 pm
If it moves, it wants to kill you. It may not try to, but it wants to.

xdarkcodex

  • Bay Watcher
  • Watch in awe!
    • View Profile
Re: Feeding the fish
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2010, 03:53:40 am »
we need magma carp!
Logged
the statement below is true
the statement above is false

TKGP

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Feeding the fish
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2010, 05:04:09 am »
Drop goblins into carp pool. Pump water out, and I believe the fish go with it. Get items, pump water back in.
I could be wrong about the fish thing though, so you might have to put more fish in it every time it's used. Still not very complicated.
Logged
Quote from: tomio175
Quote from: Mrhappyface
Well if COD players all have ADHD, and Minecrafters autism, then what do DF players all have?
Cave adaption.

zestorum

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Feeding the fish
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2010, 05:09:19 am »
You dump them into a pond? Dump them in magma.
Logged

pushy

  • Bay Watcher
  • [MEANDERER]
    • View Profile
Re: Feeding the fish
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2010, 10:51:02 pm »
Save the fish and use hippos or crocs instead :D
Logged
Quote from: Tim Edwards, PC Gamer UK
There are three things I know about dwarves:
1. They've got beards. Even the women.
2. They're short. Especially the women.
3. They're Scottish.

Karik

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Feeding the fish
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2010, 02:11:57 am »
1) Lure Orcs/goblines/elves/humans/nobles/that annoying dwarf who just won't shut up, into drowning chamber.

2) Pour in 3-4/7ths of carp water into drowning chamber.

3) Fill it if they don't die.

4) Air drown those damned carps.

5) Once you finish recovering the loot flood it with magma to clean up and then drain.

You now have a drowning chamber with magma in use, you may all bow!
Logged