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[Synner]

Lets get sadistic here, this is a thread to discuss creative, simple and FUN (and fun) ways of killing all those caged goblins you surelly have from your traped entrance.

I personally use an executions tower of fun surprises, each level consisting of two z-levels, one with the actual playground for goblins and one above it for control/dumping/storage of pertinent materials, i pack these creating an aboveground tower that would sincerely scare the living shit out of anthing willing to try a siege.

So far i have a few designs and i drew them in terrible doodles because i was bored and the shinny colors attract my atention.

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The incinerator!

Explanation of the horrible doodle: Basically a room with 3x3 empty squares of fortifications in some places, you proceed to dump a few dragons/fire imps/anythingthashootsfire inside said fortifications from above and then seal them off forever, then you obviously throw a few guys down there with no ranged weapons and you're done, you have a goblin/elven/badger/kea furnace, the used dragons don't need any training since your dorfs should never go down there anyway (remove any firesafe material from the subjects so you avoid the stockpilling of useless items killing your FPS).

You could also fill the room with assorted beast and remove the fortifications for a classical pit o' death (snakes give bonus points)

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The red pool!

Explanation of the horrible doodle: So you have our typical drowning chamber but what about adding a few notsodeadly traps inside? the point? injuring the subjects of this fun pool so they tint the water with a lovelly red hue, that way they drown in rotten filth wille sufering horrible pain! pretty basic but a personal fav of mine, it's also fool proof since the traps and bleeding will kill anything able to breath under water and vice-versa.

Bonus points if you contaminate the water with poisonous blood or some sort of syndrome (i don't know if that is possible).

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Archery range!

Explanation of the horrible doodle: Another classic! i know it's pretty boring but i just need one of those babies because they are the danger rooms of archery, a simple arena-esque room surrounded by fortifications for your archers to shot from, give them wooden bolts and leave the subjects with their armor for more efective targets.

The real magic consist of transforming this into a danger room as well! and i'm not talking about training your archers but the goblins themselves, give each of them a shield, some armor and let the training spears rock for a while, you'll end up with legendary goblinite that's as good at training your archers as any bronze collosus.

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Ballistae execution!

Explanation of the horrible doodle: Simple. Effective. Expensive. Ballistae+some distance+goblins behind fortifications make the perfect excuse for using siege weapons, bonus points if you use goblinite arrows.

This is not especially good but i always enjoy an excuse to make use of the siege operators i get every now and then, it also works like a charm for stockpilling stone with catapults if you're into that kind of stuff

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Vampire room!

Explanation of the horrible doodle: This one is good if you're tired of atomsmashing vampires or simply killing these perfectly usefull members of dwarven society, they're just misunderstood! plus you can go wild with this one, it is basically a room with unclaimed beds where you put your vampires and throw them ocassional sacrifices in the form of naked goblins, children and fisherdwarves, i enjoy making this room specially valuable to keep my murderers happy, usually including danger rooms to keep them safe, loads of statues, strategically placed corpse stockpiles to create the mood and a nice overall design to make for an exiting hunt.

Bonus points include having a fortress that cannot die or putting all your levers in there for them to pull when needed.

And because this whole post is so horribly bloody and sincerely kind of disturbing lets make things nicer a dwarven baby!

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Yeah... i have loads of free time to draw crap and cute dorfs

Soooo guys i invite you to post your executions methods here! lets make this a thread worthy of showing to new players! killing methods are one of the best ways of showing the game posibilities and i'm curious about what the comunity does to get rid of all these green/gray suckers.

If wanted i could draw the doodle of your death chamber and include it to this post.

[Tirion]

I just mass-pit naked goblins into my barracks, where all the professional military trains.

[They Got Leader]

You might be a sadist.


Alternatively, you have been playing way too much DF.

[Loud Whispers]

I have a worrying lack of prisoners these days

Anyways the ones I get I mostly chain by the entrance. This used to be just for friendly merchants, but then I realized creatures don't attack anything while chained. So I'm now waiting for some goblin friends to help detect the myriad of undead that will no doubt decide to show up any time soon...
Oh and were-creatures break out of their chains when they transform. That nearly went horribly wrong.

Alas! You seek execution methods, and that is what I came here to post. My all time favourite has to be the moose pit.

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A simple circular structure, hollow on the insides extending down 3zlvls.
(These were three pets)

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The lever pulled, the bridge retracted and the pets on their intrepid journey to the afterlife...

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The sacrifices would get stunned.

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And the undead would add more to their number.

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Bonus pic of a Kobold getting Moose'd

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Omnomnomnom

Ultimately though it had to be shut down...

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...Because it started getting used as a general refuse dump...

...Things got out of hand...

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...And the Dwarves realized just how terrifying the Moose pit was...

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...And thereon dispatched the corpses within.

It now serves as a focal point for Marksdwarves to defend on, but if ever a way to cage/release the undead easily appeared, the moose pit may become active again.
The blood god needs more sacrifices after all...

[They Got Leader]

Why is it called the "moose pit"?


Suddenly, I want to embark in an evil biome so I can make a pit full of the undead.

[Loud Whispers]

Why is it called the "moose pit"?

1. In honour of a Dwarf
2. Because there was a time where the majority of undead in the pit were Moose

[Synner]

I just mass-pit naked goblins into my barracks, where all the professional military trains.

Bonus training! for some reason i find this one really frightening it's like throwing a mouse in room full of hungry cats.

You might be a sadist.


Alternatively, you have been playing way too much DF.

One of the first words i wrote was "sadistic" so you get the idea, plus you're a DF player as well, if you tell me you're not a sadist ingame you're a dirty liar.

I have around a week without playing, a free saturday morning with nothing to do and this post is the result.

I have a worrying lack of prisoners these days

Anyways the ones I get I mostly chain by the entrance. This used to be just for friendly merchants, but then I realized creatures don't attack anything while chained. So I'm now waiting for some goblin friends to help detect the myriad of undead that will no doubt decide to show up any time soon...
Oh and were-creatures break out of their chains when they transform. That nearly went horribly wrong.

Alas! You seek execution methods, and that is what I came here to post. My all time favourite has to be the moose pit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A simple circular structure, hollow on the insides extending down 3zlvls.
(These were three pets)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The lever pulled, the bridge retracted and the pets on their intrepid journey to the afterlife...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The sacrifices would get stunned.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And the undead would add more to their number.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bonus pic of a Kobold getting Moose'd

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Omnomnomnom

Ultimately though it had to be shut down...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

...Because it started getting used as a general refuse dump...

...Things got out of hand...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

...And the Dwarves realized just how terrifying the Moose pit was...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

...And thereon dispatched the corpses within.

It now serves as a focal point for Marksdwarves to defend on, but if ever a way to cage/release the undead easily appeared, the moose pit may become active again.
The blood god needs more sacrifices after all...

My God! how i missed that one? sublime, my friend! a selfreplicating pit of undead beasts is simply a classic.

Why is it called the "moose pit"?


Suddenly, I want to embark in an evil biome so I can make a pit full of the undead.

See? we're all ingame sadists, is not like you will go and kill some small mammal now that the doomsday device you spent 4 hours working on is finished.

[They Got Leader]

I don't play the sadist much. The undead pit, however, suddenly seems very appealing. Can the undead die via bolts? I mean, it would be the perfect way to train your marksdwarves.

[Synner]

I don't play the sadist much. The undead pit, however, suddenly seems very appealing. Can the undead die via bolts? I mean, it would be the perfect way to train your marksdwarves.

They do, check out my third method for nearly infinite marksdwarf training if you want, bronze collosi are good as well but both the collosus and the undead are harder to get than goblins and a danger room.

[They Got Leader]

They do, check out my third method for nearly infinite marksdwarf training if you want, bronze collosi are good as well but both the collosus and the undead are harder to get than goblins and a danger room.

I like your method, by the way. +1 to this thread.


I have always noticed that underground creatures path to the aboveground when they get the chance (anyone else notice this?), anyways, I am now setting up a cage trapped tunnel to the underground that is separate to my fortress. I am going to catch every underground creature that I can. Then I am going to separate them by species (and tameability), then make a series of pit-traps for the gobbos. Any that aren't caught will be left to my troll-traps and such.

I'm hoping to catch a cave dragon, but I am not near an evil biome. 

[Synner]

I like your method, by the way. +1 to this thread.


I have always noticed that underground creatures path to the aboveground when they get the chance (anyone else notice this?), anyways, I am now setting up a cage trapped tunnel to the underground that is separate to my fortress. I am going to catch every underground creature that I can. Then I am going to separate them by species (and tameability), then make a series of pit-traps for the gobbos. Any that aren't caught will be left to my troll-traps and such.

I'm hoping to catch a cave dragon, but I am not near an evil biome. 

AFAIK underground creatures don't give a crap about evil/good/savage/calm biomes but i might be wrong, i'll actually run DF now to test this out but i think this is true, otherwise you'd have pretty much unhabited caverns in a safe biome and we all know down there is dangeroues regardless of that.

I had no idea because i never breach the caverns like that but it is a good way to get rid of prisoners, even just throwing them down there seems like a good deal.

[AutomataKittay]

I like your method, by the way. +1 to this thread.


I have always noticed that underground creatures path to the aboveground when they get the chance (anyone else notice this?), anyways, I am now setting up a cage trapped tunnel to the underground that is separate to my fortress. I am going to catch every underground creature that I can. Then I am going to separate them by species (and tameability), then make a series of pit-traps for the gobbos. Any that aren't caught will be left to my troll-traps and such.

I'm hoping to catch a cave dragon, but I am not near an evil biome. 

AFAIK underground creatures don't give a crap about evil/good/savage/calm biomes but i might be wrong, i'll actually run DF now to test this out but i think this is true, otherwise you'd have pretty much unhabited caverns in a safe biome and we all know down there is dangeroues regardless of that.

I had no idea because i never breach the caverns like that but it is a good way to get rid of prisoners, even just throwing them down there seems like a good deal.

Same here, I've seen note on magmawiki that said that good/evil tag don't works on underground creature. Though that could be from older version being copy-pasted over without too much checking.

[Loud Whispers]

I don't play the sadist much. The undead pit, however, suddenly seems very appealing. Can the undead die via bolts? I mean, it would be the perfect way to train your marksdwarves.

You see the retractable bridges up top in the first pic? They weren't for show
Although I never really did use it to train my marksdwarves. Wastes bolts imo

[Urist Da Vinci]

The magma spiker:
Disposes of undead or creatures that could become undead in an evil region. Consists of a pit with magma and magma-safe (steel) retracting spears hooked up via magma-safe mechanisms. Animated corpses that "collapse" are destroyed in the magma before they can re-animate.

Will it blend?
Cover the floor of a 5z pit with weapon traps, each containing 10x steel serrated discs. Requires frequent cleaning.

Live ammo / target practice:
Build a pillar with a fatal fall on all sides (or use a ledge above a chasm). Build a minecart shotgun of the "double" design, where a cage is shot out of a minecart, hits a wall, and shoots out a goblin from the cage. Put some of your goblins on the pillar, and use the other goblins to knock them off.

[itg]

The incinerator:
Simple enough. Put a wooden artifact in a 1x1 pit and light it on fire however you can. It will burn forever. Magma will work, but there may be easier methods, like dragonfire, depending on your specific circumstances. Drop victims in the pit and watch as the fat melts off their bodies and they bleed out. You can use water to put out the flame if you want to collect the goblinite.

The dump:
Even simpler. Dig a 1x1 shaft at least 5 z-levels deep, so the goblins at the bottom won't scare dwarves at the top. If it's too deep a lot of goblins will die from the fall, but that might be just fine with you. Anyway, designate a pit over the top of the shaft and a garbage dump next to the shaft. The goblins in the pit will be slowly bludgeoned to death as you dump your socks, hamster remains, and rotten forgotten beast intestines on their heads.