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Author Topic: Mandrills, King of beasts.  (Read 3923 times)

Bullion

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Mandrills, King of beasts.
« on: December 04, 2007, 01:35:00 pm »
Mandrills, Every year there is a small invasion of 6 Mandrills, normally they are no problem, but this year, they took down my sheriff and a wrestler, one of the mandrills became named, them a squad of 2 (count 'em, 2) swordsdwarfs came in and murdered them, currently  i have 3 in cages and i'm attempting to butcher the corpses before they go rotten and my fortress is buggered over with miasma.

thoughts?

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Freddybear

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Re: Mandrills, King of beasts.
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2007, 03:39:00 pm »
Not much to say, sounds to me like you've got it pretty well under control. More traps at the doors? Marksdwarfs on rotation to back up the traps? Chain some dogs there too?
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2007, 03:40:00 pm »
You have obviously never faced the elephantine horror from 0.22
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Lord Dullard

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Re: Mandrills, King of beasts.
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2007, 06:17:00 pm »
Mandrills can be a bit of a pain. Mostly I just tend to make sure my stockpiles are inside ASAP and that every entrance to my fortress can be locked down when I see them on the map.

But if you think *they're* bad, try dealing with a population of *forty-two hippos*, not including calves.

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Re: Mandrills, King of beasts.
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2007, 07:41:00 pm »
elephantine horror from .22? I got the game at .33a, please inform me about this... elephant-y thing. Or whatever.

That happened to me in my newest fortress. In my other ones I had a problem with Rhesus Maqetrsfes, or however you pronounce them. I usually go "Rhesus Ma-" and then finish that word with a gagging noise. I'm not sure what to do, between the fire imps running around, the freaking gibbons, the mandrills, the elephants, and the gorillas.

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Re: Mandrills, King of beasts.
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2007, 07:45:00 pm »
They're elephants, need he say more? King of the [land-based] beasts.
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Re: Mandrills, King of beasts.
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2007, 07:54:00 pm »
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Originally posted by penguinofhonor:
or however you pronounce them

It's actually pretty easy to pronounce: muh-kack.

 ;)

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Re: Mandrills, King of beasts.
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2007, 08:04:00 pm »
I dont care what you people say is the most terrifying creature, the dwarf's natural enemy always has and always will be the elephant.


Screw your carp/giant cave spiders.

[ December 04, 2007: Message edited by: Torak ]

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Re: Mandrills, King of beasts.
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2007, 08:38:00 pm »
I kind of wish Toady hadn't nerfed elephants.

They were cool. If a little murderous.

And I mean a lot murderous.

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Re: Mandrills, King of beasts.
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2007, 08:39:00 pm »
Elephants aren't as bad now, cave spiders are evil! I dug into a mountain found a caveriver it had 3 cave spiders! 8 EXPERT SWORDSDWARVES! *shudder*
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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2007, 11:08:00 pm »
Yeah, I kind of miss the old elephants, that would run around and trample your guys to death.  We still have the skeletal ones though, which are twice as fun   :) .
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« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2007, 05:11:00 am »
I think the Boatmurdered archive shows all the best of 0.22 ...including murderous elephants.  :D
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« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2007, 05:44:00 am »
Maybe Toady DID regret nerfing elephants, so he created carp?
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« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2007, 09:22:00 am »
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Originally posted by Bricktop:
<STRONG>I think the Boatmurdered archive shows all the best of 0.22 ...including murderous elephants.   :D</STRONG>

Boatmurdered showed the best of everything.

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Re: Mandrills, King of beasts.
« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2007, 10:40:00 am »
If you want to mod your own old-school elephants, go to the raw entry (I believe it's in creature_large_tropical.txt) and add [LARGE_PREDATOR] and [RECKLESS] to the elephant entry. I can't remember if you have to gen a new world or not afterwards. Mwahah.
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