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[elwessweettea]

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So my latest fort has a number of SoF. I have wanted for some time to make a sauna - all dwarves are taught the history of Boatmurdered and the power that was steam then, and rejoice in steam revels since the great Toad conquered steam. With a SoF, I was wondering a few things:

I've caught tentacle demons in traps with cave-ins before. Will I catch SoF before they melt my traps?

Do bars count as buildings for the purposes of demonic buildingdestroyerness?

Will steam travel up through fortifications? [Don't much like my dear dwarves to learn about fireballs every time they walk by the fortifications around the SoF powering the sauna...]

Many thanks.

[Osmosis Jones]

There's a thread floating around here about a guy who tried to capture HFS using that method. IIRC it works for regular HFS, but our burny friends are a little harder because they had an unfortunate tendency to melt the mechanisms (raw admantanium melts at the same temperature as a SoF).

So in short, no, I don't think it can be done without modding.

Also, pretty sure bars aren't constructions, and are hence destroyable, but don't hold me to it.

[Kanil]

Couldn't you get the HFS to where you want it without caging it?

It's much trickier, but seems like it would be atleast possible.

[Jim Groovester]

I love this game. Using [redacted] from the [redacted] to make, of all things, a place of rest, relaxation, and luxury for your dwarves. Everything is a harnessable tool!

The guy Osmosis Jones is talking about has several videos on the DFMA. The [redacted] probably can't be caught without modding, based on his conclusions and video.

Here's one of the videos.

Leading one of the [redacted] to where you want them to go will likely involve something equally complicated, probably involving sealing them behind an obsidion block that you would have to create by mixing magma and water, if the [redacted] doesn't melt every single one of your buildings before that and end your fort in destruction.

[Qwernt]

If your current approach doesn't work, an "ever" burning coal bin might be what you want...

[Pilsu]

Fire or magma men might work too

[sonerohi]

Addy cage + mechanism + cavein dust = win.