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[Fnear]

Instead of detecting vampires among immigrants, why not detect dwarves?

Put each immigrant in a nice, engraved room filled with masterwork magma-safe furniture, a personal food stockpile, and a barrel of fine booze, and a magma-safe grate in the back corner.  Then lock them in their rooms.

Anyone that drinks their booze gets to join the fortress.  Anyone left gets to experience a magma-flush.  Just make sure the barrels are not empty when you put the migrants in the rooms.

[wierd]

Better yet.

A state toggler!  Basically, a "free" bed, in a tube room, sealed by floodgates on either end.

It has pressure plates on either side of the bed in the tube room, one is on the other side of the outbound floodgate.

A sleepy migrant seeks the bed to sleep. When he goes to the bed, he passes through the [open] floodgate, and steps on the plate. This closes the floodgate behind him, and opens the one on the other side of the bed. He sleeps off his fermented mushrooms, gets up, and seeks the nearest pathable job he has labors for, and or a tasty snack. He leaves through the now open floodgate that leads into the proper fortress. On his way, he hits the "reset room" plate, which toggles the floodgates again.

Vampires never sleep. They won't path to the bed as the destination, so they won't go through the processing cycle.

[Koremu]

Vampires never sleep. They won't path to the bed as the destination, so they won't go through the processing cycle.

They do randomly wander when trapped and could trigger the pressure plate by accident though.

[Xotano]

both of these ideas sound great :O

about how long do dwarfs usually live btw? i got a 126 year old dwarf and it says he is one of the first of his kind, my world being 125 years makes that story plausible.

[wierd]

Vampires never sleep. They won't path to the bed as the destination, so they won't go through the processing cycle.

They do randomly wander when trapped and could trigger the pressure plate by accident though.

Just make the path to the bed sufficiently long that random wandering away from the convenient "migrants only" meeting hall and into the roomchute will be very statistically unlikely.

[Koremu]

both of these ideas sound great :O

about how long do dwarfs usually live btw? i got a 126 year old dwarf and it says he is one of the first of his kind, my world being 125 years makes that story plausible.

150-170 years

[rtg593]

I have a 2x4 room just off my trade depot. As immigrants stream in, I assign them to the room's burrow. As they get thirsty, I release them. Any still thirsty when the next wave comes, I move to the lever room, which has locked doors leading to manager and bookkeeper's offices. First vamp is lever puller, second is manager, third bookkeeper. Any more become additional lever pullers. So far it's worked just fine for me:p

[Fnear]

I have a 2x4 room just off my trade depot. As immigrants stream in, I assign them to the room's burrow. As they get thirsty, I release them. Any still thirsty when the next wave comes, I move to the lever room, which has locked doors leading to manager and bookkeeper's offices. First vamp is lever puller, second is manager, third bookkeeper. Any more become additional lever pullers. So far it's worked just fine for me:p

I must be missing something... I don't see... let me re-read.  Nope, I don't see any magma, and while there's booze, it is only hinted at.  This simple-but-effective stuff sounds a bit elfy - but there is vampire abuse!  I can support vampire abuse.

[rtg593]

I have a 2x4 room just off my trade depot. As immigrants stream in, I assign them to the room's burrow. As they get thirsty, I release them. Any still thirsty when the next wave comes, I move to the lever room, which has locked doors leading to manager and bookkeeper's offices. First vamp is lever puller, second is manager, third bookkeeper. Any more get dumped into the MAGMA SEA. So far it's worked just fine for me:p

I must be missing something... I don't see... let me re-read.  Nope, I don't see any magma, and while there's booze, it is only hinted at.  This simple-but-effective stuff sounds a bit elfy - but there is vampire abuse!  I can support vampire abuse.

ftfyme.

Better? :p

[IT 000]

Couldn't you make your entrance like this?

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..~.. -> enter
#.#.#
#.#.#
#.#.#
#.#.#
#...#
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For the ~ channel out a level, put 7/7 water in there. Any dwarf that goes through it instead of going around is a vampire.

[rtg593]

Couldn't you make your entrance like this?

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..~.. -> enter
#.#.#
#.#.#
#.#.#
#.#.#
#...#
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For the ~ channel out a level, put 7/7 water in there. Any dwarf that goes through it instead of going around is a vampire.

Could work, I suppose...

Have fun if you get one of those 70+ immigrant waves;-)

60 is my record, so far...

[Di]

The fact that they don't drown doesn't mean they will path through water.

[plynxis]

I have a 2x4 room just off my trade depot. As immigrants stream in, I assign them to the room's burrow. As they get thirsty, I release them. Any still thirsty when the next wave comes, I move to the lever room, which has locked doors leading to manager and bookkeeper's offices. First vamp is lever puller, second is manager, third bookkeeper. Any more become additional lever pullers. So far it's worked just fine for me:p

genius - almost makes vampires obsolete

[miauw62]

both of these ideas sound great :O

about how long do dwarfs usually live btw? i got a 126 year old dwarf and it says he is one of the first of his kind, my world being 125 years makes that story plausible.

150 to 160 years, i think.

[Kogut]

Better yet.

A state toggler!  Basically, a "free" bed, in a tube room, sealed by floodgates on either end.

It has pressure plates on either side of the bed in the tube room, one is on the other side of the outbound floodgate.

A sleepy migrant seeks the bed to sleep. When he goes to the bed, he passes through the [open] floodgate, and steps on the plate. This closes the floodgate behind him, and opens the one on the other side of the bed. He sleeps off his fermented mushrooms, gets up, and seeks the nearest pathable job he has labors for, and or a tasty snack. He leaves through the now open floodgate that leads into the proper fortress. On his way, he hits the "reset room" plate, which toggles the floodgates again.

Vampires never sleep. They won't path to the bed as the destination, so they won't go through the processing cycle.

Or even better - install this in all rooms, so you may keep vampires and dwarves.