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[Wondabarrapa]

what happens when something chained gets dropped beyond the chains range? do they simply break their link with the chain or are they suspended by the chain?

[Immortal-D]

So far as I know, Chains can only be attached to a floor.  Therefore, the entity being restrained will remain in place if the floor collapses.  However, now that I'm thinking about it...  What you can do is channel all the tiles around the chain, then build a bridge underneath.  Activate the bridge-a-pault, and see what happens.

[Max™]

Technically you could dfhack a floor tile into a pillar (smoothed of course) and then channel the floors.

If you just remove them with tiletypes it won't have the same effect btw.

[Sutremaine]

In earlier versions, iirc, chains acted like extreme mind control. A chained creature was never physically attached to the chain, but would not move beyond one tile away from it. I don't remember what happened if you forced a creature out of the chain's range.

[TruePikachu]

I seem to recall that there was a thread at one point with mention of attempts of using chains to hang creatures, though I don't recall if it worked. Paging Fookerchif

[Max™]

I know I had a few animals on chains that I removed the chain and they wound up wearing the chain, so they're definitely attached now.

[FortunaDraken]

I swear chains are bugged lately too. I want to chain up some war dogs near the entrance of the fort to keep an eye out for thieves and they always end up running loose...

[Edmus]

I swear chains are bugged lately too. I want to chain up some war dogs near the entrance of the fort to keep an eye out for thieves and they always end up running loose...

Check to see if they are pastured.

[PatrikLundell]

As Edmus indicates, there is a bug (or feature) that allows a creature to be ordered both to be pastured and chained at the same time, resulting in constant orders to haul the critter back and forth. You have to manually remove the old containment method when applying the new one to stop this hauling from happening. If I remember correctly (this was a year ago or so) you have no real info on which animal you're actually chaining, so it's quite hard to know which one to remove from pasturing. If using DFHack you can name creatures (and workshops, etc) with ctrl-shift-n to allow you to identify which one to release from the pasture.

[Edmus]

The same is true for criminals and injured dwarves, who are dragged back and forth between the hospital and their chains. At least it was.

[Wondabarrapa]

i would like to know if hanging is something you can do, would be interesting to have little goblins hanging at the entrance like windchimes

[fearlesslittletoaster]

i would like to know if hanging is something you can do, would be interesting to have little goblins hanging at the entrance like windchimes

Not windchimes. Pinatas. I wonder if you could stockpile stepladders under them so a macedwarf could get up there and hit them until the candy comes out?

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

IIRC, Toady said he would make hanging a thing sometime. Doubt he has yet, though.

[Tygroux]

!!SCIENCE!!





Not pictured: the dog took a bunch of bruises from the fall, and the dwarf beside him has a job to chain him back.

So having the floor disapear detach them, and then normal rules (usually gravity) take play.
It is possible with 40.x that dropped creatures climb/catch the wall/floor just as they fall, so carefull about hangdropping gobbos like that.