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[Strangething]

I have a persistent urge to make a fortress called "Cakelie" and blog the results in character as GLaDOS. Is this awesome? Y/N?

If I decide to do it, I'll do the Biodome-style, sealed fortress. Feel free to offer suggestions on how to do this right.

[Optimizt]

Mod in a deadly gas that kills anything it touches.

Everyone likes neurotoxin.

[alway]

Hmm... First set up an underground fort and put in tons of levers/other fun things. Then kill off most of the population with a deadly neurotoxin. Trap any immigrants and put em in cages, and let them run through the crazy killer maze-like fort one at a time.

[Simmura McCrea]

Hmm... First set up an underground fort and put in tons of levers/other fun things. Then kill off most of the population with a deadly neurotoxin. Trap any immigrants and put em in cages, and let them run through the crazy killer maze-like fort one at a time.

No, no, no. Underground fort, levers everywhere connected to random things holding either the fort/entire map together or the magma back, don't put any notes anywhere, put it up as a bloodline fortress. 

[Wahad]

Make sure to strew stone blocks around the maze. Companion Cube!

Also turrets (crossbow traps)

[ZergSpartan]

Build automated rooms to capture new immigrants.
Set up a control room covered with pressure plates and let a kitten loose in there. When a pressure plate is walked on by the kitten fun things happen! Will room #11 have food dropped into it? Or will #3 be flooded with magma?

[Earth Striker Lurin]

Mod in a deadly gas that kills anything it touches.

Everyone likes neurotoxin.

that's called miasma...

[small lawe]

Mod in a deadly gas that kills anything it touches.

Everyone likes neurotoxin.

that's called miasma...

Could you edit miasma to make it deadly?

[Leafsnail]

I love the idea of having a bloodline game with a death trap fortress (created by someone else, of course).  Sounds fricking awesome.  Magma flooding, water flooding, neurotoxin releasing, cave ins, monster releasing...

The incentive could be that useful and valuable items (such as axes, picks and anvils) could lie behind these puzzles.  Oh, and of course, access to the outside world would be cut off.  It could be made on a volcanic island.

[Untelligent]

Could you edit miasma to make it deadly?

No, sadly.

The closest thing you can get to a toxic (yet) is modding in a stone with a melting and boiling point of zero, which will burst into a cloud of deadly gas as soon as it exists.

The only way I can think of to apply this gas in a controlled way is with smelters within gas chambers.

[Martin]

I love the idea of having a bloodline game with a death trap fortress (created by someone else, of course).  Sounds fricking awesome.  Magma flooding, water flooding, neurotoxin releasing, cave ins, monster releasing...

The incentive could be that useful and valuable items (such as axes, picks and anvils) could lie behind these puzzles.  Oh, and of course, access to the outside world would be cut off.  It could be made on a volcanic island.

Actually, there should be timed triggers to deadly events that require you to solve problems to save your dwarves. The incentive would be not dying. Magma is flowing into the area where the dwarves are but a tree is blocking the exit out of that level. The only axe is being guarded by a dragon...

The next version might get us a lot closer to deadly gas and poisons and whatnot.

[Argonnek]

True, inhaled poisons are going to be in the next release.
On topic: if you make enough miasma dwarves are most likely to tantrum and kill each other, so it's kind of like a neurotoxin

[Firnagzen]

Can we make auto firing crossbows or something? Turrets.

Also, Y.

[Walliard]

Could you edit miasma to make it deadly?

No, sadly.

The closest thing you can get to a toxic (yet) is modding in a stone with a melting and boiling point of zero, which will burst into a cloud of deadly gas as soon as it exists.

The only way I can think of to apply this gas in a controlled way is with smelters within gas chambers.

What about having a rock which boils in magma and having a magma "vent" in every relevant room?

OP: Make every door out of glass. Portals!

[Albedo]

Can we make auto firing crossbows or something? Turrets.

You can make auto-firing weapons traps with up to 10 crossbows each, but they only fire into their own tile, and only 1x/time the enemy steps there, and only until their ammo runs out.  (Someone aptly compared them to the auto-defense systems in Aliens).