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[ASCIt]

I have to say, I think I just decided not to embark on terrifying for...a while...

[AnimaRytak]

Dwarf Fortress 2012:  When Clowns and Zombies are an Insufficient Challenge.

But seriously, that is some scary shit.

[daggaz]

Where is your God now?

I worship Huskor, the Husk God of Hubris and Vanity.  He is currently raping this fort.

[Urist Da Vinci]

... Drowning is an unknown. Will build a drowning trap in the caverns and a system to transport the evil bastards down there.
...

NOBREATHE

Don't bother, it won't work. The undead don't need air. Use a magma bath instead.

[Hotaru]

You could try capturing a magma man, fire man or fire imp from the magma sea, and letting it loose on the husks. Preferably after coating the map with lignite or coal.

Fire imp might turn into a husk, but might still be able to throw fire. Burning may kill even what weapons won't. From testing I and Broseph Stalin did in the arena, it would be workable as a weapon against the continuously respawning zombies too as it destroys their corpses even if they die to conventional weapons while burning.

Also, magma-coating the world is

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old

[Lord Dullard]

Yeah, aren't these still killable via magma moat/trap?

If so, you *should* theoretically just be able to magma-toast them with an entrance trap or a retractable drawbridge over an entrance moat or something. That would pave the way for migrants to get back in.

Admittedly it would be a bit cheap, but it hardly seems unfair against THOSE things.

[Intro1827]

With the burning/heat damage rehaul, magma should be a solution. If they're anything like mummies in adventure mode, bisection and decapitation will also kill one.

[Girlinhat]

Your best bet may be to bridge-drop them into a pit and then just close the bridge.  Just...  close the damn bridge.

[Hotaru]

The husks probably aren't very large, so if you want to do it cheap they could just be smashed with a bridge. But it's so boring 

Also they could be trapped into a huge pen with like a cat, and then have the ceiling dropped on their heads, which should also do it for anything in the game.

[Lord Dullard]

Hm. This thread has got me thinking, anyway, that a DF: Lovecraft mod is a lot more plausible in DFVD...

[Girlinhat]

I don't think you'd need to make a mod.  Just embark on evil.

[ASCIt]

Alternately, set your dwarves to [SPEED:0], and let them run circles around the unholy spawn.

[Uronym]

This reminds me of Syrupleaf.

"unholy spawn",

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THEM

If Syrupleaf was done in DF2012, then there could have been...

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ZOMBIE/HUSK HOLISTIC SPAWN

[Uthric]

Where is your God now?

planning something worse

[Talvieno]

I've gone up against husks a couple times... One giant badger husk is capable of killing all its giant badger cousins in the group. They can apparently also breathe underwater and survive longer falls than you would expect without going unconscious... My last fort died as I was building a roof - the ash crept in, and everyone above ground turned zombie. My militia might as well have been unarmed.

Where is your God now?

planning something worse

Also, this.