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[Elliott_Thinas]

This isn't really a challenge, but it's something I'm doing thats a ton of fun. I build up a starting 7 specializing in mechanics, mining, carpentry and masonry and we head out to a human capital city.

We loot the human houses and eat their food. We collapse the keeps and temples upon scores of humans, selling the armour and weapons for booze. We dwarven parasites intend to level every building in the capital except the one 4-story apartment building we have adapted as our base, around which we built a huge rock salt wall using blocks taken from the leveled temple.

The poor humans are too foolish to realize that their buildings do not fall down on their own accord. Either way, being a parasite is a ton of fun and I recommend it to any dwarf fortress builder for a try.

[Itnetlolor]

That does actually sound like fun. I've yet to take advantage of any civ I've come across on the map.

I've tried looting in Adventure mode ala Grand Theft Wagon style. It was fun until I got caught, but in dwarf mode...  , that sounds especially fiendish.

[Phazer]

it is, and its even better to let the orcs/goblins kill them when you attract the enemy to the friendly town.

[DennyTom]

I am curious - how long can you parasite on town? Humans do not produce anything new, right?

[Itnetlolor]

I'm curious, what's the deepest anyone has caved-in any building (dark tower, temple, palace, house, entire fortress)?

I mean, I've seen many videos of people dropping these 1-Z and killing everything inside, but I always wondered if anyone made sure the job was done and kinda, you know, plummet the thing a good 10-Zs?

Here's an illustration what I'm talking about.

What I commonly see:

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~      I       ~ <---- 1-Story *yawn* simple flat execution
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What I want to see:

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   O========O
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~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~      I       ~ <---- 10-story execution
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Or to appease Armok, and completely wreck the place, it's people, and just about anything underneath:

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#  ##########  #
~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~~     I      ~~
~~     I      ~~
~~~    I     ~~~
~~~    I     ~~~
~~~~   I    ~~~~
~~~~   I    ~~~~
~~~~~  I  ~~~~~~
~~~~~~ I ~~~~~~~ <---- 10-story cone execution
~~~~~~ I ~~~~~~~
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You can also invert that image and make the building get driven through a spike with a hollow nozzle down the center (where the supports lie).

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   O========O
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~      I       ~
~      I       ~
~    ~ I ~     ~
~    ~ I ~     ~
~   ~~ I ~~    ~
~   ~~ I ~~    ~
~  ~~~ I ~~~   ~
~  ~~~ I ~~~   ~
~ ~~~~ I ~~~~  ~
~ ~~~~ I ~~~~~ ~ <---- 10-story spike execution
~~~~~~ I ~~~~~~~
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Of course, the bottom-most support is the one that gets detonated for the 10-Z drop, or if you want to be sure it works properly, detonate them all.

Make sure that everything inside is dead and gone.

I mean, start a new fortress out of the ruins of a fort/tower/temple you collapsed previously, by making a pit as deep as the building is tall.

[ousire]

actualy, i always thought it would be kinda cool to take over a dark tower and turn it into a dwarven fortress

[Sir_Geo]

It's surprisingly easy to last for years solely on the things already in the human town. i think I once lasted about 5 years with dozens of dwarfs without even having to gather or farm any plants.

[ousire]

It's surprisingly easy to last for years solely on the things already in the human town. i think I once lasted about 5 years with dozens of dwarfs without even having to gather or farm any plants.

this tottaly just gave me the image of little dwarfs popping out of the ground like gophers and grabbing food before going back underground 

[Itnetlolor]

It's surprisingly easy to last for years solely on the things already in the human town. i think I once lasted about 5 years with dozens of dwarfs without even having to gather or farm any plants.

this tottaly just gave me the image of little dwarfs popping out of the ground like gophers and grabbing food before going back underground 

What about stealing underpants?

Step 1: Steal underpants
Step 2: ? ? ?
Step 3: Profit

[Elliott_Thinas]

Yeah they don't produce anything although they do age and have their kids grow up. The survivors of the collapsed keep are all kept in the pit I dug to drop them into and every so often I will designate their clothes for dumping. My dwarves run in, take the clothes, and then I undesignate them in the dump and sell them. At this rate, the humans will be useful for dozens of years. I am deconstructing each building in town log by log and using the wood to add more and more floors to my 4-story apartment complex. It is now 6 stories tall and has stockpiles and kitchens.

[Itnetlolor]

There needs to be a succession game of this.

Ahh... the possibilities, the stories, the hilarity.

I want in on it if anyone starts one.

[Vilien]

It is far more pleasing to build a wall around the entire town, and then flood it.

[Marko]

It is far more pleasing to build a wall around the entire town, and then flood it WITH MAGMA.

FIXED!

[ThtblovesDF]

It is far more pleasing to build a wall around the entire town, and then flood it WITH WAGMA.

FIXED!

BOTH!
WAGMA! When MAGMA is just not enough.

[Itnetlolor]

It is far more pleasing to build a wall around the entire town, and then flood it WITH WAGMA.

FIXED!

BOTH!
WAGMA! When MAGMA is just not enough.

We've all heard of Emerald City just over the rainbow, but I think Dwarves would appreciate Obsidian City just under the faultline a little more, you know?