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[redrowen]

Hey All,

Quick question.   I have 2 Necromancers (one Human one Dwarf) & about 6 Dwarven body parts stuck in some cages.  Basically I've been under a 20 year siege from Necromancers that has finally dwindled to an end.   For the most part I had no problems dumping the undead except when they are Dwarven parts.

I cannot select them in the Pit list, they do not show up.  They can be properly dragged to any Animal designation I can set them up so I can position them however is required.

I've read a few things about "building" the cage and releasing, but I am not to sure how that is done.

Anybody have any suggestions on how I can dump these cages?

Thanks!

[Ultimuh]

Drop them into magma while still inside the cage.

[redrowen]

hahah!

I want them alive though!  Well, the necromancers at least.  Figure I will toss them in a room and let them animate corpses to keep my Marksdwarfs occupied.

[zombie urist]

Build the cage. Then build a lever. Connect the lever to the cage and pull the lever.

[redrowen]

How do i Build the cage he is in?   

[zombie urist]

(b)uild -> (j)cage. Then press (x) to see an expanded list and choose the correct one.

[redrowen]

Oh sweet, thanks, I will give it a go!

[crazysheep]

Regarding the unanimated dwarf parts, I think the easiest way to get rid of them is to loo(k) at the cage contents, and then manually dumping the body parts.

[Loud Whispers]

Failing the lever, just assign them to a chain.

[Callista]

Regarding the unanimated dwarf parts, I think the easiest way to get rid of them is to loo(k) at the cage contents, and then manually dumping the body parts.

No, they're animated--they count as creatures. You'll have to build the cages and release them from there, have your military kill them again, and then you can dump them.

[HorridOwn4ge]

Failing the lever, just assign them to a chain.

Imagine being a hyman trader coming into a dwarven fortress where there are heads, toes, feet and hair chained up somehere in the fortress.

Urist McBroker: "Aye, that's Imik, may ArmOk have his soul, he won't bite ya."
Imik: "*CLACK* *CLACK* BRAINS! *CLACK*."

[crazysheep]

Regarding the unanimated dwarf parts, I think the easiest way to get rid of them is to loo(k) at the cage contents, and then manually dumping the body parts.

No, they're animated--they count as creatures. You'll have to build the cages and release them from there, have your military kill them again, and then you can dump them.

Oh whoops. In that case then yeah, you're right.

[Hyndis]

Its a shame to waste a perfectly useful necromancer.

Build him a tiny prison cell overlooking a pit. Allow him line of sight to the pit through a floor grate. Rig up a retracting bridge under him so you can block vision if needed.

Make the pit your refuse stockpile.

Then open the bridge to allow the necromancer to reanimate all of those body parts.


Surely you can find some usage for a pit full of zombies you can indefinitely reanimate at will.

[Scruffy]

Build him a tiny prison cell overlooking a pit. Allow him line of sight to the pit through a floor grate. Rig up a retracting bridge under him so you can block vision if needed.

Make the pit your refuse stockpile.

Then open the bridge to allow the necromancer to reanimate all of those body parts.

I like the way you think! Perhaps add a atom smasher on the bottom of the pit to help with the possible cleanup if needed.

..such pit might even prove useful incase you get a particulary annoying noble.

Urist McBroker: "Aye, that's Imik, may ArmOk have his soul, he won't bite ya."
Imik: "*CLACK* *CLACK* BRAINS! *CLACK*."

If it is brains they want the zombies would just starve to death. A standard dorf has no need for such fleshy organ. (The unfortunate ones that actually posses such things usually fall to melancholy or go stark raving mad.) It is their alcohol enriched livers and 96% ABV blood that they are after.

[Hyndis]

Simplest and probably one of the most effective uses of the pit would be for combat training. Have fortifications overlooking the pit and station some newbie marksdwarves there. Let them shoot down all of the zombies.

To recover ammo from the pit just block the view of the necromancer and the corpses so he can't reanimate them. Knock them all down using crossbows, then you can pick up the ammo again.

Then restock the pit with more body parts, seal up the door, and let the necromancer reanimate them again. More target practice time.

Or make an arena. Goblins vs zombies.