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Leonidas

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FB Won't Shoot Web
« on: August 31, 2020, 01:11:54 am »
I caught a webcasting FB, and I've set up a silk farm. For bait, I used a sealed-in werepanda, as the wiki suggested. It's not working. The FB won't throw the webs at her as a dwarf or a panda. What's the trick to making the FB shoot webs?

Here's my setup:
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The 1x7 drawbridge is controlled by the adjacent lever, so it's definitely down. And the bait is running back and forth trying to get away, so I know that they can see each other.
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Moeteru

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Re: FB Won't Shoot Web
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2020, 02:12:11 am »
It's most likely a problem with the separation distance.
I once tried to build a setup like yours with two layers of fortifications and a raising bridge between the FB and the bait, but that didn't work because they were too far apart. Rebuilding it to have just a single layer of fortifications solved the problem.
I also seem to remember that I had problems when my bait went insane, but that might have been with a GCS instead of a FB.
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PatrikLundell

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Re: FB Won't Shoot Web
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2020, 04:29:20 am »
A side note: FB webs are not more valuable than normal cave spider webs, so your dorfs won't be happier using this silk than normal one. If the FB has some interesting property, like e.g. fire immunity, to confer to the webs you can still get some useful features out of it (beyond the coolness factor for the player).
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Re: FB Won't Shoot Web
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2020, 01:10:28 pm »
To shoot through fortifications, you need to be adjacent to them (or to have the high skill as mentioned in the wiki).
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Leonidas

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Re: FB Won't Shoot Web
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2020, 02:13:26 pm »
Quote from: anewaname on August 31, 2020, 01:10:28 pm
To shoot through fortifications, you need to be adjacent to them (or to have the high skill as mentioned in the wiki).
Yes, of course! That makes sense. He won't take the shot because he doesn't have the skill to get through the second layer of fortification!

OK. Time to redesign.
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