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[Zaibusa]

I know that I have adamantine in my fortress, so I already wonder how to deal with the guardians. As i have a lot of water which i can easily transfer, is it possible to flood the pit as soon as I found it to kill all the demons inside?
Because in theorie this sounds like a great way to get rid of them

[SolarShado]

Depends of what kind of demons you get.

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Tentacle, Frog, or Fire

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Tentatlce demons are drownable, i believe. Frog demons are not. and i'm fairly certain fire demons just turn the water to steam.
if you've got magma too, you could obsisian-ify the chamber, that'll kill anything.

[Gork]

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Wow, I had never thought of pumping the pit full of obsidian. But where are the demons exactly generated? The glowing pits?

[Hyndis]

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If you want to keep the demons as a means of sacrificing prisoners, use a sacrificial dwarf to mine out the last parts. Recruit the dwarf, send him in. Then wall up the mine shaft behind it. Unrecruit him and have him finish digging to the glowing pit. Then, channel out the ceiling from above so you can toss prisoners and/or pesky nobles into the now demon-infested pit. 

[Im_Sparks]

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If you want to keep the demons as a means of sacrificing prisoners, use a sacrificial dwarf to mine out the last parts. Recruit the dwarf, send him in. Then wall up the mine shaft behind it. Unrecruit him and have him finish digging to the glowing pit. Then, channel out the ceiling from above so you can toss prisoners and/or pesky nobles into the now demon-infested pit. 

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Can't fire demons just huck fire up Z-levels?

[Cogsmith]

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Forget throwing fire up z-levels. In my experience they can god-damn FLY.

[SolarShado]

Lemme check the raws...

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plain demons and fire demons are indeed [FLIER]s...
also, someone mentioned that they keep trying to path to your dwarves and drain fps if you just wall them in

[Hyndis]

IIRC, the FPS drain only happens if there is a locked door in the way. If you simply break the path, such as by using a channel and retractable bridge, there is no FPS drain.

For example, if you dump about 100 animals in a breeding pit and have a locked door be the accessway, your FPS will die. If you instead used a bridge over a channel and retract the bridge, you won't get the FPS hit as they will no longer keep trying to path out of the pit.

[Cheshire Cat]

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fortifications facing inwards towards the pits are allways good. make sure all your dwarves are behind them except the one miner being sent to breach things. ballista works nice. really, a good strong well trained military in steel plate should be able to clean up however many frog or tentacle demons the pits throw at you. frog demons only nasty trait is they start of stealthed. ive never gotten spirits of fire, but their only real weakness is that their limbs sever rather then break. they fly, throw fire, and set anything they stand next to on fire. magma does not work and accounts tell that they now turn water into dangerous clouds of steam. i think their lack of organs means crossbow bolts are not that effective.

also, just channeling in through the roof with a down stairway activates the HFS encounter and makes the demons appear. no need to mine in sideways then make a separate roof hole for prisoner insertion. if you have a collection of megabeasts and some goblin sieges caged up then this would make for fun times.

if your unlucky enough to get spirits of fire, you can try ballista bolting as many as you can down a long corridoor, and then stagger groups of champions in corners to stop all of your defenders from roasting at once. recruiting the rest of your fort with crossbows would not hurt either. and remember, losing is fun! and losing a heroic last stand against a horde of burning demons is even more fun! plus it makes a great adventure mode site.

[FoboslC]

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Why are we talking in spoilers?

[Yanlin]

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Why are we talking in spoilers?

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Because HFS are spoilers in game.

[zchris13]

You do realize that nobody want's to be caught unawares by these things?  I would rather stage an epic battle, then get crushed horribly.  Much more FUN.  Somebody needs to make a success vs. Fun graph.  Something like a rollercoaster hill, with a dropoff. Cliff.  With an arrow, saying HFS at the top. Or something.  I didn't actually discuss anything spoiler related.  So I'm not hiding it.

[Noble Digger]

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I've done 20+ forts and only got HFS once. I broke in by accident while quarrying the entire bottom z-level and had an epic experience, renewing and refreshing for the 14-year-old 120ish-population Throatpunch. Most who died were unskilled immigrants but we did lose legendaries. Much miasma came up from the depths before it could all be cleaned up. The survivors did a lot of stone smoothing. I wanted them legendary engravers so they could tell of what they saw in the deep darkness...

[winner]

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It doesn't matter if they can fly, if they can't walk there they can't fly there

[Tcei]

I broke into a HFS in a fort I was abandoning once.

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After some work I finally managed to get all 10 or so of my soldiers down in to the tunnel, most were legendary wrestlers/hammerdwarves/sword in addition to  shield/armor use. Things were going pretty well against the frog demons, killed maybe 6 or so of them and only lost one of my own.

Then

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the SoF showed up

followed shortly by

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Demon

Who then proceded to

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rape my soldiers horribly, leaving only one alive before continuing out to pillage the country side.

The final soldier was

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Was badly injured. Suffering red injuries over most his body and missing both eyes and I think a hand.

Rather than

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fight to the death or run back to the fort he decided to make his way deeper into the pits. Revealing more and more of the frog demons

In his state he was

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to terrified to fight and instead let the demons beat on him until he made it to the edge of the pit where he jumped.