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zombie urist

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Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« on: July 30, 2012, 07:47:12 pm »
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I was killing the traders when I realized that not one but 2 water buffalo had lodged themselves in the wall.

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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2012, 07:47:33 pm »
What.
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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2012, 07:51:04 pm »
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2012, 07:59:32 pm »
Seems simple enough.  The beasties tries to melt through the stone to escape the magma.  Never even heard of it happening before, I admit, but the picture is pretty clear.
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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2012, 08:01:48 pm »
I think I'll be justified in saying...


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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2012, 08:21:51 pm »
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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2012, 08:35:05 pm »
Is there a ramp there?
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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2012, 08:44:30 pm »
Wagons and their pack animals and driver move as a group, so if the wagon scuttles while it's center is 2 tiles from the wall, the pack animals will be stuck in the wall.

Using the same logic, it's possible to have a ramp-wall-magma setup that sets pack animals on fire as the wagons approach.
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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2012, 06:01:25 pm »
For some reason, this is in my opinion one of the most Dwarf Fortress-y thread titles ever.
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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2012, 07:14:37 pm »
You should have just flooded them with water, then the Water Buffalo live.

After the flood, make sure the Water Buffalo is walled in so he can't wander around.
Then dig a tunnel below him, and let him get free kick attacks on invaders, because melee people can't hit things directly above them.

Maybe this concept would work.


If the thing died and re-animates, will it still stay in the wall?
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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2012, 09:42:07 pm »
Melee people CAN hit things above them, actually. Being in a wall might affect LOS, though...
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Re: Water buffalo in wall. And on fire.
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2012, 12:54:23 am »
Nope. Apparently being in a wall leaves you perfectly capable of being killed by things above below and in front of you.
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« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2012, 01:54:55 am »
Quote from: Sutremaine on July 30, 2012, 08:35:05 pm
Is there a ramp there?
Well, it says there's a smoothed wall, not a ramp.

Regardless...
Quote from: Nyxalinth on July 31, 2012, 06:01:25 pm
For some reason, this is in my opinion one of the most Dwarf Fortress-y thread titles ever.
For sure.
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