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[utunnels]

Don't send melee dwarves against poisonous gas unless you don't care about causalities.

You can build a trap corridor between your main area and the cavern area, use a fortification to to block the way and a draw bridge to trap enemies.


cavern===========xx=H==F=======

xx = draw bridge
H = hatch/stair that links to your fort
F = fortification

It is quite simple. When the hatch is open, the FB will find its way into your fort. Lock the hatch. Since it can't attack the hatch from below, it will fall back. Now pull the lever, open/close the hatch to lure it, wait for the bridge to close. Now station your firing squad behind the fortification and have fun.

[taptap]

Trap it. And experiment with its dust. For science!

They are building destroyers but destroying buildings takes long enough for you to pull a lever and close a bridge. You can also make auto-trigger FB traps, with submerged pressure plates and doors that the FB destroys thus triggering the trap.

[PatrikLundell]

I've been thinking about water, pressure plates, and doors to trigger action against building destroyers. However, I'm somewhat unsure as to what works, and what doesn't (and haven't found much when searching):
1. Single tile room with a pressure plate triggered on e.g. 5/7 water filled with 6/7 water with a juicy door. Will the trigger be activated when the water pours out (as well as when it was poured in)?
2. Can you build a 1/7 water triggered pressure plate and then put a door on top of it, so it triggers when the door is opened/destroyed?
3. If neither of these works, will a 1/7 pressure plate on the tile in front of the door trigger fast enough to catch the vandal when the room is filled to 6/7?
4. Will the effect be significantly improved by a two tile high water chamber?

[Urist Tilaturist]

There is nothing to beat a cave in or magma to defeat a forgotten beast. Or, of course, both. Magma is more dwarven, but a cave in may suffice if magma is not available yet.

[tonnot98]

There is nothing to beat a cave in or magma to defeat a forgotten beast. Or, of course, both. Magma is more dwarven, but a cave in may suffice if magma is not available yet.

Why not a combination of both?

Cause a cave in on top of magma that causes the magma mist to melt the FB!

[taptap]

I've been thinking about water, pressure plates, and doors to trigger action against building destroyers. However, I'm somewhat unsure as to what works, and what doesn't (and haven't found much when searching).

Just try it out, auto-trigger is a bonus (take care that your design not only traps the beast but keeps it in even when say remaining fluid evaporates naturally or due to the beast, some designs out there look fishy to me, you can also work with the off signal). Most important part is: destroying buildings takes significant time. So even with only a few doors in a path into your fort you can trap them manually (lever pulling) while they destroy doors.

[Foxite]

Don't send melee dwarves against poisonous gas unless you don't care about causalities.

You can build a trap corridor between your main area and the cavern area, use a fortification to to block the way and a draw bridge to trap enemies.


cavern===========xx=H==F=======

xx = draw bridge
H = hatch/stair that links to your fort
F = fortification

It is quite simple. When the hatch is open, the FB will find its way into your fort. Lock the hatch. Since it can't attack the hatch from below, it will fall back. Now pull the lever, open/close the hatch to lure it, wait for the bridge to close. Now station your firing squad behind the fortification and have fun.

I was actually planning to do something similar. I was planning to make 2 rows of fortifications, with some space in between so that the dust could in no way reach the marksdwarves. That was actually what I meant with "engineering the cavern's layout to my advantage". XD

There is nothing to beat a cave in or magma to defeat a forgotten beast. Or, of course, both. Magma is more dwarven, but a cave in may suffice if magma is not available yet.

I've been thinking about water, pressure plates, and doors to trigger action against building destroyers. However, I'm somewhat unsure as to what works, and what doesn't (and haven't found much when searching):
1. Single tile room with a pressure plate triggered on e.g. 5/7 water filled with 6/7 water with a juicy door. Will the trigger be activated when the water pours out (as well as when it was poured in)?
2. Can you build a 1/7 water triggered pressure plate and then put a door on top of it, so it triggers when the door is opened/destroyed?
3. If neither of these works, will a 1/7 pressure plate on the tile in front of the door trigger fast enough to catch the vandal when the room is filled to 6/7?
4. Will the effect be significantly improved by a two tile high water chamber?

There is nothing to beat a cave in or magma to defeat a forgotten beast. Or, of course, both. Magma is more dwarven, but a cave in may suffice if magma is not available yet.

Things to do with pumping and offensive engineering were actually in the back of my mind for quite some time, but I haven't actually raised a fortress to the point where I had really no other project to do that since v40 came out. I had a lot of time to do that in a 34.11 fort, but I was too nooby back then. XD

Cause a cave in on top of magma that causes the magma mist to melt the FB!

That sound genius, but I think it would have taken so much time that the FB would probably have been killed by a bunch of gobbos by then.

[Melting Sky]

Ouch!

The number one rule of dwarf fortress is always find out what the deadly dust does before sending in the troops. Nothing else in the game can even begin to compare to the horror of deadly dust with a little bit of RNG spite thrown into the roll.

It's hilarious when the dust just ends up causing nothing worse than the common cold, but it's not nearly so funny when it causes flesh melting hemorrhagic death, particularly if it has a nice long delay on it so you don't realize your screwed until its been tracked everywhere through the fort.