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[Alexandus]

I embarked next to a necro tower, and managed to catch a few necromancers in cages. Naturally, I decided to spice up my maze of doom with them, by enclosing them in glass windows to reanimate any goblin invaders that fell to the other dangers of the maze.

All was going well, until a minotaur showed up. It went right up to the grass window that one of the necro's was behind, and halted - a minute later, the window's gone, presumably broken, and the necro is bolting past the minotaur towards freedom. Has this sort of thing happened to any of you?

[itg]

Minotaurs are building destroyers, and windows count as buildings, so this is nothing unusual. Next time, try building a glass wall. Walls count as constructions, which building destroyers can't attack.

[Alexandus]

Minotaurs are building destroyers, and windows count as buildings, so this is nothing unusual. Next time, try building a glass wall. Walls count as constructions, which building destroyers can't attack.

Ahh, good to know - thanks!

[Kaos]

only that glass walls won't give line of sight to the necro, glass walls/floor behave as any other stone and won't allow light through. you can place the windows and have a moat in front of them so building destroyers can't path to the windows and won't destroy them (unless they are also flyers)


Another approach is placing the necros above the  corridor, on top of a floor grate, the grate allows line of sight and enemies can't destroy it from bellow nor can shoot through it, so your necros are safe.

[itg]

Ah, I forgot necromancers need line of sight. As a third approach, you could probably build fortifications around the windows.

[wagawaga]

I'm pretty sure fortifications allow LoS (how can marksdwarves see their targets otherwise?), and they are constructions as well, so building destroyers will leave them be. They also allow liquids to pass throug though, so keep that in mind if you're using them in a maze with water/lava traps.

[GoombaGeek]

Make the necro stand on a floor grate for maximum drainage, just in case (nobody likes redoing a necro trap). Buildings can't be destroyed from above so you should be safe - but make a cage trap below the floor grate anyway.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Minotaurs are building destroyers, and windows count as buildings, so this is nothing unusual. Next time, try building a glass wall. Walls count as constructions, which building destroyers can't attack.

Ahh, good to know - thanks!

Actually, it's the "window" part that makes it transparent, not the "glass" part. Rock or metal window panes are also transparent, while glass anything else is opaque.

[Mr S]

Gem window Iv'e seen.  Rock windows?  Metal windows?  Are you talking just from the raw editing !!Science!! point of view, or was this a mood result?

[Quietust]

"Rock" windows are made the same way as gem windows - cut some stones, then build 3 of them into a window.

Metal windows (and wooden windows) are things that can only be created using custom reactions or memory hackery.

[pbnjoe]

I embarked next to a necro tower, and managed to catch a few necromancers in cages.

Heheheh, I imagined you running after a bunch of mice in oversized wizard costumes and beards as they ran on two legs and squeaked, holding up their little robes so they don't trip. Hard as they try, they still get the little cage dropped on them. *chuckle*

[Seraphim342]

I embarked next to a necro tower, and managed to catch a few necromancers in cages.

Heheheh, I imagined you running after a bunch of mice in oversized wizard costumes and beards as they ran on two legs and squeaked, holding up their little robes so they don't trip. Hard as they try, they still get the little cage dropped on them. *chuckle*

It's a zany action, a crazy contraption, the fun is catchin' it's MOUSE TRAP!

[612DwarfAvenue]

I embarked next to a necro tower, and managed to catch a few necromancers in cages.

Heheheh, I imagined you running after a bunch of mice in oversized wizard costumes and beards as they ran on two legs and squeaked, holding up their little robes so they don't trip. Hard as they try, they still get the little cage dropped on them. *chuckle*

It's a zany action, a crazy contraption, the fun is catchin' it's MOUSE TRAP!

Oooh, that brought back some nostalgia...

[pbnjoe]

It's a zany action, a crazy contraption, the fun is catchin' it's MOUSE TRAP!

From minotaurs to Mouse Trap in a page

[Igfig]

Oh yeah? Well one time a minotaur ran into my pottery kiln. The mayhem was like a bull in a—

...huh.