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[Psieye]

... the severed part flies away!

Once again, I'm reminded of how ludicrous DF physics (or is this physiology?) can sometimes be. Anyway, it's dead now but this brings the important question of how it got in. The only way in would have been flying diagonally down. Apparently just slapping a wall where my staircase used to be isn't enough to stop flying mobs from getting in. Well ok, 1 dwarf is a cheap price to learn this lesson - already building a more robust cavern breach point.

[Zeranamu]

... the severed part flies away!

Big stinger? It'd kinda be like a big rapier or a sword, easily able to sever fleshy parts... I think.

Oh. And I dunno about the diagnal stuff, I usually build the walls farther back, in a straight hallway so there's no chance anything is getting through... course.. I've never seen a FB either..

[Syrup Roast]

Yeah I do think they fly diagonally. One FB got up the stairwell to the sleeping district that way.

[Psieye]

... the severed part flies away!

Big stinger? It'd kinda be like a big rapier or a sword, easily able to sever fleshy parts... I think.

Has to be bigger than that - we're talking super robot drill-like here. Fitting for a Forgotten Beast I guess.

[peregarrett]

... the severed part flies away!

It's just an explosive poison. First beast injects poison with its sting, then poison explodes and tears a limb apart.

Once again, I'm reminded of how ludicrous DF physics (or is this physiology?) can sometimes be. Anyway, it's dead now but this brings the important question of how it got in. The only way in would have been flying diagonally down. Apparently just slapping a wall where my staircase used to be isn't enough to stop flying mobs from getting in. Well ok, 1 dwarf is a cheap price to learn this lesson - already building a more robust cavern breach point.

Huh. I also was suspicious about flyers traveling diagonaly.  level z =1 had 3x3 stairwell, and level z=0 just 1x1 stairwell directly at center. When a beast came, I plumbed central tile with floor and was thinking I'm safe. But after a while, when I was busy with anti-beast device, it somehow got in. It had no other way than diagonally up to stairs.

[Lord Aldrich]

There's another thread about diagonal flyer travel in the DF Questions forum. General consensus was that it's not the wall itself that prevents diagonal-vertical travel, it's the floor that comes standard on top of the wall. So I imagine that if you were to build the wall directly on top of the stairwell, things could get in diagonally because there's no floor under the wall. You could probably prevent this by constructing floors instead of walls to seal off stairs. They're constructions, so they're just as indestructible.

[Darion]

how do i see it in my mind:

[Summoner]

This thread made me chuckle

[FallingWhale]

If the stinger was just 3 inches wide and got between the radius and ulna it is just a quick tug to take off the arm.