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[Zantan]

I visited my first tower today.  As I approached it, I discovered a shrine containing a desert titan made of pig iron 10 squares away from the tower.  I lured most of the necromancers and zombies to it and ran, figurig that the thing must be invincible to unarmed zombie attacks, but returned to find it with half the bones in its body fractured or broken.  How could a beast made of iron fall so quickly to zombies?

[toomanysecrets]

Pig iron is not very strong.  From wikipedia (not the DF wiki)

Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.5–4.5%, which makes it very brittle and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications.

[Urist Da Vinci]

A titan made of a solid material such as pig iron doesn't have bones. The zombies are fracturing the outer extent of its body.

[Wayward Device]

A titan made of a solid material such as pig iron doesn't have bones. The zombies are fracturing the outer extent of its body.

This. They're also not hurting it at all, as it will have no organs, blood or ability to feel pain. The only way to kill something like that is to sever the head or lower body. Incidentally, due to the way damage to zombies/collapsing corpses works, megabeasts of any kind are usually amazingly deadly to them, as every hit has the force needed to collapse. Yesterday, I had my two titan corpses fight an Ettin and it utterly destroyed them every time.