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[Magua]

Late to this party, but:

Previous experience with temperature off and magma and Dwarf Companion indicates to me that the "cooling off" of dwarves on fire occurs when you enter the water, not being in it.  That is, putting dwarves into the water, and then turning temperature on, gives you dwarves who will spontaneously combust once they leave.  You need to turn the temperature on, and then get the dwarves into the water to put them out.

Not that it helps you now, of course.

[Martin]

Morul is nearly done with speardwarf - much faster progress than expected, but also much slower than the other dwarves who hit legendary a fair bit ago. Not sure why.

Morul's suite is complete and the magma moat is finally full and ready to be revealed. Descriptions of every level are provided on the map.
Morul's completed suite

Among the features are a hot tub, working fireplace, and grassy meditation area (a little hacking there...) The entire suite is masterwork or artifact quality - even the mechanisms inside the floodgates. The predominant materials are steel sourced by melting the armor of the orcs Morul has killed, adamantine, and oak for a softer touch. It's not a mix of wood, it's nothing but oak (that was a pain to work out). Overall, I'm very pleased.

It could stand some more details and decoration, and I'm open to suggestions. Oh, and some orcs have come to visit, so Morul may finish up speardwarf on them and allow another update. Now that the magma pipe is refilled, the FPS have magically returned. Huzzah!

[Christes]

We need to see this in the visualizer.

[Martin]

I agree. Unfortunately the OpenGL shaders don't work in VMWare yet. I'll find time to boot into Windows later and run it.

[DeathOfRats]

There's a new version of the visualizer now that doesn't require shader support , which is simply awesome

[Martin]

There's a new version of the visualizer now that doesn't require shader support , which is simply awesome

Ooooh... Let me see if that'll work.

[Criptfeind]

I was thinking about the problem of training him and I came up with this idea:

One of the biggest problems is that too many come at him at a time right? So if you were to spilt them up it should work better right? I have an idea for a trap to break them up in to smaller groups.


Z0

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W...BBB...W
W...BBB...W
W...BBB...W
W...BBB...W
W...BBB...W
WWWWDWDWWWWZ-1

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WWWWGGGWWWW
W.F.F.F.F.W
WFFFFFFFFFW
W.F.F.F.F.W
WFFFFFFFFFW
W.F.F.F.F.W
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WWWWWWWWWWW
WFDFWFWFDFW
WDWDWDWDWDW
WFWFWFWFWFW
WDWDWDWDWDW
WFWFDFDFWFW
WMWWWWWWWMW
W=wall
O=where the Orcs come in
B=NON-retracting bridge
D=door
.=open space where the Orcs fall down
G=where the Orcs that don’t fall the Z-2 leave going back to O or possibly to Morul so he can kill them well they are scattered before he goes to Z-2
M=the door that Morul comes though to get to the Orcs.


The way it works is first the Orcs come to Z-level zero trying to get though the doors. When they get close to the doors you lock them and pull the lever to pull the NON-retracting bridge up throwing the Orcs around the room. The Orcs fall the Z-level negative one some of them going in to the holes and the others scatted and disorientated. You can either let the Orcs go back to the bridge and throw more in the holes or you can send Morul in to kill the scattered Orcs. Then you send Morul down to Z-level negative two and open up the doors one at a time letting him take down small amounts at a time.

The length of the bridge and the corresponding pits are up you.

This is of course a rough draft and could probably use some improvement.

[Heartpower]

Any updates?  Morul has to be getting close to living the dream.

[Sensei]

I think Martin's busy with DFM.

[Martin]

Yeah, give me a few days with the DFM. I'm trying to get the visualizer working in VMware.

[uran77]

how high i his thrower skill

[Smew]

how high i his thrower skill

Most likely it is still 0, since there is no feasible way to raise it legally.

[sdu]

Why not cage traps and use an arena to let them loose one by one?

[lucusLoC]

:'-( no updates. . .

[Derakon]

Cage traps would be a huge pain to engineer, since you have to do each one individually. Cryptfiend's idea would work fine, and actually you don't even need a drawbridge; retracting bridges "fling" just as well as drawbridges do (read: poorly), if I recall correctly. Retracting bridges also have the advantage of not crushing anything when they're put back into position.