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weirdbeard

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Flooding the chasm
« on: May 18, 2008, 11:21:00 am »
Wondering if it's still possible to flood the chasm with magma, thus blitzing all life down there. Can anyone answer, please?
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Silu

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Re: Flooding the chasm
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2008, 11:36:00 am »
The chasm will pretty much suck up all the magma you pour into it without never filling up so you can't directly "flood" it. You can however flood the tiles surrounding the chasm (if it's a circular chasm) to kill the monsters that way, but it requires quite a bit of dwarven engineering.

Also monsters don't pop out from chasms indefinitely anymore so you could just kill them by amassing a horde of wrestlers there or wait them to die of old age.

[ May 18, 2008: Message edited by: Silu ]

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weirdbeard

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Re: Flooding the chasm
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2008, 11:53:00 am »
Okay, thanks.
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Inquisitor Saturn

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Re: Flooding the chasm
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2008, 11:43:00 pm »
Idea: a reverse tower going into the chasm, send a few crossbowdwarves down to assassinate everything
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Andir

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Re: Flooding the chasm
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2008, 02:29:00 pm »
Can you build down?  Up/down stairs I assume?
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Re: Flooding the chasm
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2008, 02:49:00 pm »
Yes, you can. One of my forts had a hanging turret bubble above my main gate.
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Re: Flooding the chasm
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2008, 06:38:00 pm »
I can only build stairs upwards, is it really possible to put the up/down stairs below the one above it? In that case, how?
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