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[612DwarfAvenue]

Alright, here's what i'm planning...

I set up a big room, i seal it with a raised bridge when there's enemies in there, i then flood the whole room, then i open up a passageway, making the water come flooding out. The passageway is lined with Weapon Traps, so the FOOLS THAT DARE INVADE MY FORTRESS get pushed along by the water, right over the Traps.

Here's my question: Do Weapon Traps still work fine against underwater enemies and the like? I'm sure they do, but i wanna make sure before i do it.

[o_O[WTFace]]

Cage traps work fine underwater, I assume weapons would.

[Encased in burning magma]

Indeed, cage traps do work underwater (yay, carp moat...).

[peterix]

You know, this is an awesome idea... and a fine way to make some blood-red water :]

[Angry Bob]

Yes. One of my first fortresses had a prisoner disposal chamber that tied down the prisoner, left, and flushed it into a weapon trap filled with swords and serrated disks at the end of the hallway. It only fired properly once, but it did work. The next time, the prisoner got loose and mauled the attending dwarf, and the third time, a dwarf somehow got stuck in the hallway, and once he passed out from drowning, he triggered the trap. The chamber was an old irrigation duct that drained into my underground tree farm, so the floor was very red...

[612DwarfAvenue]

Awesome, now one more question: Can water push objects through Fortifications? 'Cause i need to drain the water somehow, and Fortifications could work great as long as the items get left behind...

[Akura]

You know, this is an awesome idea... and a fine way to make some blood-red water :]

Aside from...

(yay, carp moat...).

...?

[Sphalerite]

Awesome, now one more question: Can water push objects through Fortifications? 'Cause i need to drain the water somehow, and Fortifications could work great as long as the items get left behind...

Yep, water will push objects through fortifications.  It will also sometimes leave the objects stuck in the fortifications, impossible to retrieve.  I'm not sure if wall grates or bars filter out objects.

[Encased in burning magma]

...?

You can have a catch and release program.

[Aspgren]

Water will push objects through wall grates and fortifications.

Use floor grates!

[612DwarfAvenue]

Alright, so Floor Grates would definitely work for this?

[Quietust]

Awesome, now one more question: Can water push objects through Fortifications? 'Cause i need to drain the water somehow, and Fortifications could work great as long as the items get left behind...

Yep, water will push objects through fortifications.  It will also sometimes leave the objects stuck in the fortifications, impossible to retrieve.  I'm not sure if wall grates or bars filter out objects.

One other problem is that water will sometimes push an object to "nowhere", leaving it completely invisible (except in Z-Stocks).