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[celebrinborn]

I've heard about adventurers who found clown prisoners and hired them as companions. I have a fort I'm building with the intention of exploring it in adventure mode later. I want to give myself a nice reward at the end (candy weapons) but then I remembered the thing about clown prisoners becoming companions. Is it possible for me to capture a clown in fortress mode and then have him become my companion later in adventure mode?
PS: Will my candy weapons disappear/get moved when I abandon the fortress? If so, is there a way to prevent this from happening?
PS: I want to make it so that my fortress is dangerous to enter. Placing traps won't work because I know where they are and I don't want to let all the clowns in because that would be too much fun. Are there any other ways to make sure that the fort has lots of fun in it? Would abandoning during a siege do the trick? Thanks

[Drago55577]

1. no idea

2. they will move a bit

3. place animals and FBs everywhere if you capture them, or dig to hell

[Flying Dice]

1. I don't think so, but am not certain. Pretty sure the 'imprisoned' interaction is limited to worldgen activity.

2. They'll scatter like everything else, but will still be on the embark. Keep them in workshops or lead bins to limit scatter, or alternately use dfhack's lair tool.

3. Traps will work fine, if you have a complex fortress and don't place them in completely predictable patterns.

[IT 000]

PS: Will my candy weapons disappear/get moved when I abandon the fortress? If so, is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Scattering is based on weight, thus adamantine will scatter very far away.

However, if you build a weapon trap and put all the candy weapons inside of it. Build it on a support pillar and link said pillar to a lever. Once the lever is pulled, the trap deconstructs and leaves all the candy weapons behind in a cloud of cave-in dust.

Bonus points if it releases magma and you have to outrun it with the adamantine weapons Indiana Jones style.

[celebrinborn]

PS: Will my candy weapons disappear/get moved when I abandon the fortress? If so, is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Scattering is based on weight, thus adamantine will scatter very far away.

However, if you build a weapon trap and put all the candy weapons inside of it. Build it on a support pillar and link said pillar to a lever. Once the lever is pulled, the trap deconstructs and leaves all the candy weapons behind in a cloud of cave-in dust.

Bonus points if it releases magma and you have to outrun it with the adamantine weapons Indiana Jones style.

I like this idea

[Drago55577]

Maybe make it release helmet snakes and put crossbow traps on repeat, Indiana Jones style!


Bonus points for that

[nenjin]

Is there any documentation on this Lair tool? Neither a forum search or a google search brought up anything...and there's nothing in DF Hack's documentation (that I see.)

[Flying Dice]

Is there any documentation on this Lair tool? Neither a forum search or a google search brought up anything...and there's nothing in DF Hack's documentation (that I see.)

Hm. I remember it from a while ago; it would set your fortress as a lair, thus preventing item scatter (I specifically recall using it several times), but it isn't in the current list of commands, and I haven't needed it in .34.xx yet. Will look around, see what I can find.


ed.

Still listed in the readme, though it apparently isn't listed as a command in the current version of dfhack. It might not have been updated yet...?

https://github.com/peterix/dfhack/blob/master/README.rst

[nenjin]

Thanks for hunting that down. I think it's been disabled in the current version because Lair is part of DFusion, which hasn't been updated since 31.xx or something because of a bug.

At least I know the command name if it starts working again.