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[bmaczero]

For ordering a tame chipmunk chucked off the 22-z-level death drop into the caverns, to see what would happen.

Turns out, it survived just fine (unlike two goblin lashers and a human crossbowman).

I'm throwing one into magma next. 

[Leesin]

How do you order this lol ?

[ReverseWill]

How do you order this lol ?

You either channel a hole, or use any available tile marked "Open Space" that your dwarves could get adjacent to. Make an activity zone over the open space, and press 'p' to label it as a Pit/Pond. Then, press 'P' over your new Pit/Pond to edit the settings. There, you'll find an option to turn your pond [which is what it defaults at] into a Pit. When it's a pit, assign contents. You can assign a wide variety of animals and invaders to your pit. When assigned, the dwarves will lead whatever creature you assigned to the edge and then throw them in.

Also, some advice- if you're planning on throwing in caged hostiles, build their cage right on the edge of the pit so they have less of an opportunity to escape and wreak mayhem in your fort. as your dwarves attempt to toss them in.

[bmaczero]

Just make sure you don't try it with thieves and snatchers, they can escape even if they're only 1 tile from the pit  .

Well, I ordered the same chipmunk tossed into a magma pool.  I can't be certain, but I think it walked off the surface of the magma to the ledge  .

I then dug a hole in the cavern roof right over the middle pool, dropped the chipmunk...and it stopped a few z levels above the surface and is happily bouncing around there.

Flying chipmunk? 

[sonerohi]

It is riding the thermals.

[Deimos56]

I ordered the same chipmunk tossed into a magma pool.  I can't be certain, but I think it walked off the surface of the magma to the ledge  .

I think I'm going to use this as my sig for now...

[Eric Blank]

Perhaps vermin are not affected by long falls? Chipmunks still shouldn't be able to fly or walk over empty spaces, especially over magma.

[Skorpion]

Vermin are unaffected by long drops.

However, throwing them into magma worked sometimes in 40d. Apart from that time I ordered a cave swallow thrown in, and it flew away and caused job cancel spam when I tried to order it re-caged.

[o_O[WTFace]]

I once tosses a lizard cage into a magma pit.  It crawled out on fire and couldn't be atom smashed or eaten by cats. 

[Xocolotl]

Remember, the less mass something has, the less effect gravity has on it. So big things--hitting the ground at terminal velocity, magma, etc.--will actually make a chipmunk immortal. From this we can infer that small things (cat claws, land shrimp, nanorhinos) would be instantly lethal to vermin.

[Urist Imiknorris]

nanorhinos

Just adding emphasis to the awesome.

[Corona688]

Just make sure you don't try it with thieves and snatchers, they can escape even if they're only 1 tile from the pit  .

Well, I ordered the same chipmunk tossed into a magma pool.  I can't be certain, but I think it walked off the surface of the magma to the ledge  .

I then dug a hole in the cavern roof right over the middle pool, dropped the chipmunk...and it stopped a few z levels above the surface and is happily bouncing around there.

Flying chipmunk? 

Sounds like you've hit the same bug that allows hoverblood.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

You've never heard of a flying squirrel?

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