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[Elf Lover]

I want an FB that resembles a Giant Sponge.

Gribble Gribblor the Gribble of Gribbling has come! A Forgotten Beast, it has a sponge-like body and many spongy tentacles! Beware it's deadly sponge!

[acetech09]

That's strange. Sponges airdrown, so [MOUNT_EXOTIC] could add interesting results under certain circumstances. That and the fact that they can't move.

[Giygas]

Okay, see, this is what I'd like to do:

• Make sponges happy with living on land
• Make them zombiefiable
• Make them easily tamable
• Provide some way for them to enclose dwarves within themselves, like bioarmor.
• Give them WINGS (or legs, wings just sounds cooler)
• Mod it in so that dwarves can ride them
• Better than a mech.

... you want to give to the mighty, furious and terrible giant sponge the capacity to  move, fly and encase the poor dwarves?
why did you hate so much dwarfdom?!?!?!
are you possessed by the spirit of a carp or what?

[DungeonJerk]

And lo, Margar the beast carp of Drownedbeard was detected, and many a dorf did run for their socks only to be impaled upon ye wooden training pikes and be pumped up and down whilest their fellow bearded ones did tantrum in a spiral.

And the sponge just sat there. Plotting.

[Loud Whispers]

Okay, see, this is what I'd like to do:

• Make sponges happy with living on land
• Make them zombiefiable
• Make them easily tamable
• Provide some way for them to enclose dwarves within themselves, like bioarmor.
• Give them WINGS (or legs, wings just sounds cooler)
• Mod it in so that dwarves can ride them
• Better than a mech.

... you want to give to the mighty, furious and terrible giant sponge the capacity to  move, fly and encase the poor dwarves?
why did you hate so much dwarfdom?!?!?!
are you possessed by the spirit of a carp or what?

On the contrary he is merely expressing his love for Dwarfdom by presenting it with an apocalyptic challenge.

[Alestom]

And lo, Margar the beast carp of Drownedbeard was detected, and many a dorf did run for their socks only to be impaled upon ye wooden training pikes and be pumped up and down whilest their fellow bearded ones did tantrum in a spiral.

And the sponge just sat there. Plotting.

It all makes sense now.....

[DungeonJerk]

And lo, Margar the beast carp of Drownedbeard was detected, and many a dorf did run for their socks only to be impaled upon ye wooden training pikes and be pumped up and down whilest their fellow bearded ones did tantrum in a spiral.

And the sponge just sat there. Plotting.

It all makes sense now.....

Of course it does!, when nothing can harm you. What more do you have to do then wait and plot, and let others do your evil work for you?

[Garath]

just looked up the raws

Giant sponges move so slowly they can be said not to move at all and do not have any form of attack. Seemingly, they are indestructible. Most likely, dwarfs jumped in the river and drowned out of frustration.

I had to laugh at the mount_exotic tag... I can just see a goblin sitting on one and trying to urge it forward

[MiniMacker]

just looked up the raws

Giant sponges move so slowly they can be said not to move at all and do not have any form of attack. Seemingly, they are indestructible. Most likely, dwarfs jumped in the river and drowned out of frustration.

It does have the [IMMOBILE] tag.

[Monk321654]

So, we've got murderous giant sponges, and we have invulnerable husks.

What happens when they combine?

Someone find an evil coastline with husk inducing mists!

[Hotaru]

So

1. have a river with a giant sponge
2. reroute river to flow underground, off the map via map edge fortifications trick, starting from the point with the sponge. Make sure the drain is enough that the river is only 4-5/7 full at all times
3. move passage to your fort to go by the sponge

-- enemies and dwarves will walk to the sponge, and get promptly washed off the map by the current, while the sponge, being immobile, won't mind at all.

[Garath]

too bad they don't have limbs. Or any attack form, according to the raws

AGAIN:
They do NOT attack, unless they're sponge man/woman

However, dwarven stupidity prevails and they will happily jump to a drowning death if it means finishing the unkillable demon sponge.

[Powder Miner]

They push if they can't attack.

[Wirevix]

too bad they don't have limbs. Or any attack form, according to the raws

AGAIN:
They do NOT attack, unless they're sponge man/woman

However, dwarven stupidity prevails and they will happily jump to a drowning death if it means finishing the unkillable demon sponge.

Any creature with no natural attacks, or no limbs left that they have attacks assigned to, will "push" opponents.  This can result in dwarves dodging/falling into water, or even being damaged by the push itself because Giant Sponges are huge.

[varangian]

too bad they don't have limbs. Or any attack form, according to the raws

AGAIN:
They do NOT attack, unless they're sponge man/woman

However, dwarven stupidity prevails and they will happily jump to a drowning death if it means finishing the unkillable demon sponge.

Any creature with no natural attacks, or no limbs left that they have attacks assigned to, will "push" opponents.  This can result in dwarves dodging/falling into water, or even being damaged by the push itself because Giant Sponges are huge.

What you said. I mentioned in another thread pitting my fortress vampire against the sponge. The sponge pushed the vampire enough to break her lower spine. Then she fell in the water for a bit. Being a vampire she's apparently not bothered by such minor details and eventually clambered out of the river and moved a strategic couple of tiles away from the riverbank where I'd stationed her, presumably having had enough hacking away at the sponge with an axe to no noticeable effect.