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[LordBrassroast]

Hello all,

I recently had a Titan visit my fort. However, I have no military, so I trapped him in my trap hallway. I know Titans are trapavoid, so I constructed a cave-in trap for him after reading that megabeasts will destroy supports regardless of what they're supporting. It looks something like this, if you're curious:

: = wall
. = floor
_= channeled space
I = support
 
z +1
::::::::
:____:
:_:__ :
:____:
::::::::

z 0

:::::::
:......:
:..I...:
:......:
:::::::

Theoretically, the titan punches the supports down and gets rocks dropped on his head. But that isn't happening, he's just wandering around. Is there a reason why he's not destroying the supports?

[Saiko Kila]

He is not destroying the support precisely because of possibility of such traps

[LordBrassroast]

So I'll have to build a new murder room and link the support to a lever?

[Leonidas]

If you want to be clever, you could build a water trigger: The building destroyer attacks a door. When the door is destroyed, the 7/7 water behind it flows out. Below the 7/7 water is a pressure plate linked to the support.

[Saiko Kila]

So I'll have to build a new murder room and link the support to a lever?

There are two automatic ways:

1. Most often used: destroyer has to destroy a door, which will release magma or water, which will trigger a pressure plate (may be one triggered when level of water falls), which is linked to the support.

2. Sometimes used by me: make a support out of zinc. Destroyer destroys a door or floodgate, which releases magma which floods the support, which is quickly destroyed by magma. I like this, because I imagine the destroyer, who is flooded by magma first, to have time to say "Magma trap? Hah, I'm resistant to magma, suckers!" He is not resistant to cave in traps, though.

[LordBrassroast]

I wound up linking the support to a lever. Had to sacrifice a couple of dogs to bait him in, though.