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[MagicJuggler]

Hello...today we're talking about comedic trap ideas and the numerous ways to inflict pain on your opponents. While normally one could just fight bad guys, where's the fun in that. So suggest your humorous ways to defend the fort.

The first example would be a bridgeapult into a lava pool. The bridge raises in the direction of the pool and whenever you pull the lever, the poor su...er goblin gets catapulted and lands with a burning splash.

[Hawkfrost]

Hello...today we're talking about comedic trap ideas and the numerous ways to inflict pain on your opponents. While normally one could just fight bad guys, where's the fun in that. So suggest your humorous ways to defend the fort.

The first example would be a bridgeapult into a lava pool. The bridge raises in the direction of the pool and whenever you pull the lever, the poor su...er goblin gets catapulted and lands with a burning splash.

Holy Grail eh?

I prefer a room that locks up and drips 1/7 water in ever so slowly.
Chinese water torture is effective.

[MagicJuggler]

Ooh...I have another trap idea. We know that goblins and elves have perfect swimming and thus don't drown without a roof. Why not build a trap designed to take advantage of this? Have a giant pipe that the goblins slowly swim to the top of, and a pipe that they get pushed outwards towards...the pipe leads to a very long fall...sort of like a waterslide of doom.

[Jake]

Channel out your entrance hall and erect a retractable bridge over it. (You can do this with a constructed floor and a few supports, but rebuilding everything is a hassle.) Fill the pit beneath with magma, spike traps, war dogs or whatever else your imagination can devise. Rig the bridge with pressure plates in such a manner that the first goblin to cross the threshold will drop all his chums into the pit to expire messily, then seal back up to allow him to run like buggery and do whatever it is goblins do in this situation.
Bonus points if the Hammerer's private quarters are down there in order that he might do something useful for a change.

Less showy but equally satisfying: Line your entrance hall with fortifications and station marksdwarves on either side. For later sieges, alternate between marksdwarves and speardwarves for added close-in protection, and add a few traps at the mouth of the tunnel to soften them up just in case.

[MagicJuggler]

You missed the point...the point is to make the trap hilarious...

My other trap idea is to build a giant anvil-shaped structure and link it to a support linked to a ceiling...because nothing says classic humor than a giant anvil falling on top of someone.

[Dorten]

About water pushing: I was trying to make something like that: a big room, with a series of doors on the sides, which goblins have to pass to get into fort. When the first goblin enters it he steps onto pressure plate, which triggers a mechanisms to close the floodgates and after some time all goblins who manage to enter inside are locked. When the goblin steps near one of the doors - click - door opens and a stream of pressurised water would push him on the other side of the room where the weapon trap with a single wooden spike is. To my gread disappointment water couldn't push goblins far enough. But still! after some tome there were eniough water to drown them... Not so much fun, but still. I called it The Great Goblin Wash Machine! Although it produced enormous amounts of mud, when opened afterwards.

[AlienChickenPie]

One idea I can't wait to implement is a dog flood. The entrance to the fortress has several grates or floodgates sealing pits full of war dogs. When the invaders get near, a level is pulled and war dogs stream out of their pits.

[Booken the Blue]

One idea I can't wait to implement is a dog flood. The entrance to the fortress has several grates or floodgates sealing pits full of war dogs. When the invaders get near, a level is pulled and war dogs stream out of their pits.

I'm having that. With Wyrms. My mod, trainable flying, firebreathing, dwarf-sized dragonic creatures. Pull lever, open cages, watch as death comes from above.

[Time Kitten]

Bridgapult chain leading back around to the beginning of the bridgapult chain.  See how long you can keep the siege flying in circles before the last one splats down into the deep spike trapped lava moat.

[Yami]

Do creatures take damage if another creature falls on them?  If so I could see a series of goblin containment areas, each one with bridges for floors, so that we can drop goblin upon goblin to our hearts delight. ... or until we run out of goblins.

[Grumman]

Something I plan to try for my next entranceway is a 3-5 space wide walkway that folds up into a walled 1 space wide corridor. This would allow a single ballista to guard the entire walkway, as well as flinging 66-80% of their numbers around as the trap activates.

[Ivefan]

I know that water have teleportitis but when i thought this out i hoped that if i use enough pressurized water it would work anyway. So i made a five wide corridor with an open end 10z over the ground outside to propel the hapless victims to their death.
It didnt work. The whole corridor was filled in one second and the dwarf i used as crashdummy drowned.
I wanted to send stuff flying >_<

[AlienChickenPie]

Something I plan to try for my next entranceway is a 3-5 space wide walkway that folds up into a walled 1 space wide corridor. This would allow a single ballista to guard the entire walkway, as well as flinging 66-80% of their numbers around as the trap activates.

I wonder what would happen to the creature who get flung. Would they hit the other bridge or fly past it?
Either way, it sounds like a lot of fun.

[THLawrence]

A few weeks ago I was toying with the idea of an ice cannon.
I dug out and filled a large reservoir and installed a floodgate at the side of the hill. When I pulled the lever the water which was under pressure would move out a few squares and then freeze. Anything within 3 tiles of the cannon would be instantly encased in ice. Truly the greatest weapon known to dwarf.

[Osmosis Jones]

Build a hallway at least three tiles wide. Across the floor, build nickel silver hatches, linked with bauxite mechanisms to adjacent pressure plates (also bauxite). Then, have a tunnel under the hallway filled with magma pressurised by a pump and cistern at least one level above the hallway.

Hence, when the gobs invade, the trigger the hatches, which open up and fountain magma up.