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[utunnels]

At first I thought each stone hits only once. But after checking the reports,  they actually hit multiple times.

Giant bat, 1 trap, knock out

The diorite strikes The Giant Bat in the lower body, bruising the muscle and bruising the right kidney!
The diorite strikes The Giant Bat in the left lower leg and the injured part is crushed!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The spinning diorite misses The Giant Bat!
The diorite strikes The Giant Bat in the lower body, bruising the muscle and bruising the guts!
The Giant Bat falls over.
The Giant Bat gives in to pain.
The Giant Bat regains consciousness.
The Giant Bat gives in to pain.

Giant bat, 2 traps, kill

The Giant Bat jumps away from The spinning phyllite!
The phyllite strikes The Giant Bat in the right lower arm and the injured part explodes into gore!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The phyllite strikes The Giant Bat in the left upper arm and the injured part is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The phyllite strikes The Giant Bat in the left upper leg and the injured part is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The phyllite strikes The Giant Bat in the left upper leg, shattering the bone!
The phyllite strikes The Giant Bat in the right upper leg and the injured part explodes into gore!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The phyllite strikes The Giant Bat in the upper body, bruising the muscle and bruising the liver!
The Giant Bat is propelled away by the force of the blow!
The Giant Bat gives in to pain.
The Giant Bat's tail skids along the ground and the part is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The Giant Bat slams into an obstacle!
The phyllite strikes The Giant Bat in the right lower leg and the injured part explodes into gore!
An artery has been opened by the attack!

Troll, 1 trap, knock out

The phyllite strikes The Troll in the right upper leg and the injured part is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The Troll jumps away from The spinning phyllite!
The phyllite strikes The Troll in the left lower leg and the injured part is crushed!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The Troll falls over.
The Troll gives in to pain.
The Troll regains consciousness.
The Troll gives in to pain.

Cave crocodile, during battle, knock out

The Cave Crocodile jumps away from The spinning diorite!
The diorite strikes The Cave Crocodile in the right front foot and the injured part is crushed!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The diorite strikes The Cave Crocodile in the left front leg and the injured part is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The spinning diorite misses The Cave Crocodile!
The diorite strikes The Cave Crocodile in the left front leg, shattering the bone!
The spinning diorite misses The Cave Crocodile!
The Cave Crocodile falls over.
The Cave Crocodile gives in to pain.
Libash Edimid, Planter: I was near to a Trap.  It's very interesting.
The Cave Crocodile regains consciousness.
The Cave Crocodile gives in to pain.
The Planter stands up.
The Cave Crocodile regains consciousness.
The Cave Crocodile gives in to pain.
The Cave Crocodile regains consciousness.
The Cave Crocodile gives in to pain.
The Cave Crocodile regains consciousness.
The Cave Crocodile gives in to pain.
The Cave Crocodile regains consciousness.
The Cave Crocodile gives in to pain.

[SMASH!]

This

[Bearskie]

Is this confirmed?  Do we finally have non-useless stonefall traps?

[Sadrice]

As I recall, from Urist da Vinci's very informative threads in the modding subforum, weapon traps hit three times (per weapon, I think).  It's not too surprising that stone fall traps share the same mechanics.

I think the cases where the attack seems to happen more than three times are instances of the same attack hitting multiple body parts (i.e. both upper and lower arms) but being recorded as separate attacks, but I might be misremembering attack mechanics.  It's a bit convoluted ad counterintuitive and may have changed since I last read research on the topic.

Nonetheless, stonefall traps not being useless is good news (though cage traps are almost as cheap to produce and much more effective).  They used to suffer from a bug, I don't recall the details, that made them much less deadly than you might expect.  If that has been fixed, then that can only be a good thing.

[Rüdiger]

I like to imagine that the boulders bounce back like rubber from anything except the enemies.

[Tenderroast]

off topic, but that gif made me realize something.... Indiana Jones is an idiot. He could have avoided the boulder completely, and not needed to run from it, if he had just dropped to the ground and let it go over top of him.

[utunnels]

off topic, but that gif made me realize something.... Indiana Jones is an idiot. He could have avoided the boulder completely, and not needed to run from it, if he had just dropped to the ground and let it go over top of him.

He probably didn't have time to react. Like your dorfs dodging into magma.

[Hurkyl]

off topic, but that gif made me realize something.... Indiana Jones is an idiot. He could have avoided the boulder completely, and not needed to run from it, if he had just dropped to the ground and let it go over top of him.

... and be stuck inside the cave forever when the boulder plugs the exit.

(admittedly, your reaction was my first reaction too to seeing the gif)