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[Lazer]

So uh, I've been trying to figure a way to work this. Basically what I'm trying to do is in a single tile wide hallway, create a trap triggered by pressure plate that does this:

1. ==]| |[==

2. ==] [==

3. ==][==

4. ==]| |[==

Basically a smashy trap. Any ideas? Because I'm certainly clueless as to how to go about it.

[Skanky]

Walls can't move. You may be able to make a 1-tile long and however many wide raising bridge in that hallway and have it smash the invaders. That's as close as I can think of.

[Lazer]

I WILL TAKE THIS TO THOUGHT.

[UltimaPhantom]

code:

1.
  O...O
  O.D.O
  O...O
2.
  OXXXO
  OXDXO
  OXXXO
3.
  OXXXO
  OXXXO
  OXXXO   *Splatter*
Legend:
O = Wall
. = Floor
X = Floodgate
D = Dwarf

Would this one work? Closest thing to splatter dwarf is to... yes, splatter it with floodgates.

[Karlito]

flood gates won't close if there is any creature or item in the way.

you could do it with a bridge:

code:

1)
|.R|
|GR|
|.R|
|.R|
2)
|BB|
|BB|
|BB|
|BB|

| = wall
. = floor
G = Goblin
R = Retracted Bridge
B = Bridge (with crushed goblin remains underneath)

[Krapula]

With bridge you have to find some manner to raise it back up again so that you don't have single-shot deathtrap.

Come to think of it I have never tried to link two separate trigger to bridge or any other building. Can you do this?

[eltorre]

with masterwork mechanism, the bridge will raise-lower faster (not as fast as a pike trap, but...). if you make the bridges long, you will crush enough enemies so they dont survive...
but put some cage traps just after the bridge, so if 2 or 3 survive, they will get caged.

the bad point is that the crushed enemies disapear. no loots, no bones, no skulls.

[Lazer]

I think that is worth the lol's it will provide.

Also perhaps as for getting it to raise back up, maybe the pressure plate to initiate the trap would activate a floodgate which would send water to... No because then that's just another pressure plate with one result. This is upsetting.

[Ltheb]

How about using a raising bridge to compact foes into the wall.
Like this:

code:

#P#####
#0XXXX#
#0XXXX#
#0XXXX#
#0XXXX#
#0XXXX#
#P#####

Where: # = Walls; P = Pressure plate; 0 = Raised bridge; and X = Lowered bridge
I know 2 bridges slamming together kills instantly, so I would bet this works too.

[ January 18, 2008: Message edited by: Ltheb ]

[Bullion]

i envision some sort of trap like this

code:

 
#X#
#B#
#B#
#B#
#B# 
#X#
#-wall B-bridge X-Floodgate

at some point in the fortress the bridge and floodgates would be connected to 2 separate levers, 1 to close both floodgates, 1 to lower the bridge, or even better, a pressure plate to close both floodgates, so you can crush at your leisure

[Skanky]

quote:Originally posted by eltorre:
<STRONG>with masterwork mechanism, the bridge will raise-lower faster (not as fast as a pike trap, but...)</STRONG>

Not according to testing. They raise at the same speed regardless of the quality of the mechanisms.

[Pickerel]

This is probably a silly question, but when a rock falls on the space a dwarf is in, does it hurt the dwarf?  If so, one could build the bridge across an area with a cliff above, and have a rock on it.  The flood gates would go up as usual, trapping the dwarf, and the bridge would fling the rock up.  The rock would be stopped by the cliff, and would fall.  Pow.  Right down onto the dwarf, which is trapped between the floodgate and bridge.  If the dwarf manages to get on the bridge, won't he be flung far to certain death anyway?  Or something...

Then again, this still isnt the compactor the guy asking the question imagined... so isn't really pertinent I guess...