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[Urist Sonuvagimli]

While reading through Boatmurdered chronicles I've stumbled upon a mention of elephant pump technology (page 206 of PDF version). Is anyone actually familiar with how to set it up and running? Or is it merely a failed ambitious project?

[Button]

I believe that was just a silly way of talking about threatening the elephant menace with magma.

[TurnpikeLad]

If I remember correctly, they had set up a corridor with pressure plates that the elephants would try to path through.  Only, pathing over one set of plates closed one end of the tunnel and opened the other end, so the elephants kept walking back and forth, triggering some mechanism or other.

[palu]

This may be the first known instance of dwarfputing! A creature logic repeater!

[Urist Sonuvagimli]

If I remember correctly, they had set up a corridor with pressure plates that the elephants would try to path through.  Only, pathing over one set of plates closed one end of the tunnel and opened the other end, so the elephants kept walking back and forth, triggering some mechanism or other.

Thx! Must try!

[WaffleEggnog]

If I remember correctly, they had set up a corridor with pressure plates that the elephants would try to path through.  Only, pathing over one set of plates closed one end of the tunnel and opened the other end, so the elephants kept walking back and forth, triggering some mechanism or other.

Thx! Must try!

I do this all the time, but with a spear trap in the middle (since they jam less) and with hatch covers on each end. It's really handy.

[klefenz]

Speaking of Boatmurdered, I remember there was a doomsday lever that the last player couldnt find. Anyone knows what did this lever do?

[vallannion]

If I remember correctly, they had set up a corridor with pressure plates that the elephants would try to path through.  Only, pathing over one set of plates closed one end of the tunnel and opened the other end, so the elephants kept walking back and forth, triggering some mechanism or other.

Pressure plates were from the 3D version, so I don't think this is right...

[laularukyrumo]

I figured it was just a joke, because they had so many elephants that they were "swimming" in elephants. No such thing was ever implemented in-game.

[Untelligent]

If I remember correctly, they had set up a corridor with pressure plates that the elephants would try to path through.  Only, pathing over one set of plates closed one end of the tunnel and opened the other end, so the elephants kept walking back and forth, triggering some mechanism or other.

Pressure plates were from the 3D version, so I don't think this is right...

I figured it was just a joke, because they had so many elephants that they were "swimming" in elephants. No such thing was ever implemented in-game.

Looking through the archives, I found this post:

28th Obsidian
Well diary, I've had enough of it here. I feel like a failure. The project sits almost completed, but not quite; it feels like when I wouldn't quite have my papers done for one of my old professors, only the outright-fail-asshole kind of professor, not the oh-well-you-lose-a-letter-grade sort. This place is dirty and foul, not at all like the loving utopia I hoped to craft. I shall leave instructions to whomever comes after on the functioning of the project. Here is a crude sketch of it:

The only mention of an "elephant pump" comes from the next player. It sounds like they were indeed trying to get an elephant to walk back and forth over a pressure plate to continually activate... something. Most likely the magma blaster.

[Quietust]

Pressure plates were from the 3D version, so I don't think this is right...

The only thing that "isn't right" is you - pressure plates have always been a thing in Dwarf Fortress, though they weren't nearly as versatile back then (they were only triggered by hostile units or unconscious civ members, and "single-use" was toggled from the Add Job menu rather than set at build time).

[vallannion]

Pressure plates were from the 3D version, so I don't think this is right...

The only thing that "isn't right" is you - pressure plates have always been a thing in Dwarf Fortress, though they weren't nearly as versatile back then (they were only triggered by hostile units or unconscious civ members, and "single-use" was toggled from the Add Job menu rather than set at build time).

Oh right, sorry getting this mixed up with fluids triggering them... Ignore my comments above.