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[Srath47]

i usally just go with a massive tower with a bridge on top and drop them, or an atom smasher, not that creative but it gets the job done.

What do you guys like to do?

[Lord Dakoth]

I prefer to draft them, give them a weapon, helmet, and body armor (so that they last slightly longer,) lock them in an arena-type room, and have them fight ever-growing waves of goblins.

I once had a random Soapmaker or someone (who had a thing for cats) kill close to a dozen goblins with a standard quality Iron sword and standard Copper body and helm. 'Twas a gory, but altogether entertaining spectacle.

[Srath47]

hahah nice, thats a good idea ill have to do that one.

[Lord Dakoth]

If you have a gobbo shortage, you can give the dwarves wooden/silver weapons or no armor at all.

Or you could just not take away the goblins' weapons. In that case, though, you might want to have 3 peasants for every 2 goblins, or something like that.

Beware of the +Pig tail Sock+ rush that occurs once a dwarf dies.

[Gergination]

I was under the impression that goblins wouldn't really fight back after they've been captured.  They'll just try and run away only fighting back once a dwarf has engaged them.  Mine have never put up much of a fight against my champions.  Then again, those champions are shield bashing horses 20+ tiles.

A pretty dwarfy/fitting way is to knock them out with a cave in while they are standing on weapon traps loaded with whips.  Have the lever that caused the cave in also hooked up to some water so that all the blood can get flowing and have this bloody mess flow over an elaborate altar dedicated to Armok.

[Dorf3000]

If they are regular dwarves I usually draft them and have them patrol around the perimeter of the map.  Eventually they bump into some gobs and perish, due to a terrible oversight they weren't issued a weapon, armor or training

For more irritating/"noble" dwarves there's a bauxite lever deep underground in a room with an unusually hot nickel silver hatch in the ceiling.

[Quietust]

I prefer the simple and compact Suicide Booth. To operate, just pull the lever.

Code: [Select]

Z+0
  ╔══╗
╔═╝..╚╗
║<.Iò.┼
╚═╗..╔╝
  ╚══╝

Z+1
  ╔══╗
╔═╝..╚╗
║>¢++.║
╚═╗..╔╝
  ╚══╝

Requires 3 mechanisms and 3 building materials (plus a floor hatch for easier reloading). Very little cleanup required.

Just be sure to reinforce the floor underneath...

[Tradanbattlan]

I prefer a YOU'RE TOO SLOW type of thing. First, I make a hallway of pressure plates that are connected to a bunch of lava powered by screw pumps. When a dwarf steps on a pressure plate, the floodgate in front of him opens and the one behind him closes.
I stick him in the end, starve him, pull a seperate lever that opens up two floodgates: one for food and one for him.
If it works right, he should be burned to a crisp before he reaches the food.

[Rolan7]

I fill my Hammerer's bedroom with pretty upright spikes, with the lever right outside.  One spiking for every hammer blow.  I'm pretty sure they admire the well-craft spike traps, as a bonus.  Obviously the room can be used to execute other dwarves if necessary.

I like Tradanbattlan's method!

[Satarus]

I have them open up a new channel from the magma pipe.  Through terrible oversight in the design, it requires them to mine out the warm rough obsidian stone wall in front of them.  I get one !!dwarf!! out of the reaction too.

[Skorpion]

I actually have three systems!

System one: The drop into magma.
Above the magma pipe, I have a set of rooms with supports. One level up, a set of identically-sized rooms bridges leading to a lever sat on a single floor tile, otherwise unsupported apart from the support under it.
The support is linked to a lever elsewhere. I assign the lever inside to a dwarf, order it pulled repeatedly, and then shut and forbid the door once they're inside.
Then I order the control lever pulled, dropping them into the pipe.

System two: The mass excecution by fire.
Next to the magma pipe, I have a steel pump set up to fill a room. In that room, I usually build an array of levers and order them pulled by assigned dwarves, then forbid the door.
Then order the pump started. The magma then washes around, before draining out into the pipe again apart from a few 1/7s.

System three: The long fall.
Just like the first system, only it drops into the chasm and not the magma pipe.

[uttaku]

When I have the time and motivation I favour an overally complexe system. I lock the dwarves in a long thin chamber that can be flooded with lava, however rather than being controlled with a single level there are a series of floodgates that can block the flow or divert it on a longer or shorter route, and these are controlled by pressure pads placed all over the fortress, thus meaning that their ultimate fate is controlled by there friends.

[XSI]

I have a few ways of dealing with bad dwarves, my favorite ways are simple.

Firstly, just a really deep hole, and a lever supported just by a support, access only over a grate(Which won't support anything. The lever is set to the support, assign the lever to be pulled by the bad dwarf, usually a noble.

Pros:
Quick to build once you already have a hole, or anything that is lethal for a dwarf to be dropped into, like magma, pit of untamed animals, chasm, or just dumping them outside during a siege.
Almost 100% success rate.

Cons:
Takes 3 mechanisms each use, and 2 building material of choice.
Small and boring
Dust may pull other nearby dwarves into the hole.
Does not kill the dwarf's pets

A single pump at the edge of the magma pipe/pool, no walls or anything. The dwarf is either set to pump it, or called close to it by lever in case of nobles.
The pump will pump up the magma, which will flow back to the magma source, causing burns and magma coverings. The dwarves will die a slow, magma-related death.

Pros:
Just takes a pump, magma safe materials not needed, but recommended if it's going to be re-used.
If the magma doesn't kill them, the fire imps or magma creatures most likely will.
Gets rid of the pets too.
Cheap and fast.
Magma.

Cons:
They may run back into your fort. While burning.(Get a locked door)
Other dwarves may try to rescue or bury the burning dwarves(Locked. Door.)
No clothes to sell after death.
Needs someone to operate the pump in case of a noble.(Or a lever connected to a power source and the pump, which costs time and resources)

[martinuzz]

I don't usually have any bad dwarfs.
Mostly I kill dwarves at random for being useless, not ... bad .

Well ok. In the rare instance that I do have a BAD dwarf...
Such as one that is sitting at a table in a splendid dining room I specially designed to please him, smirking broadly, while eating a purring maggot that cost me 2 good trappers to catch, to a certain 8-legged horror... BEFORE I COULD MILK THE WORM..

I assign those special, bad dwarves to a set of levers.
Linked to some nice, shining, pointy things.
And have them execute all their children, parents, friends and pets until they snap, and die in some non-glorious way.

[Sphalerite]

The one time I intentionally built a system to get rid of specific dwarves, it was with a 10X1 retracting bridge with a lever at the end linked to the bridge.  I'd set the lever so only the target could pull it, and task it to be pulled once.  The victim would walk down the bridge, pull the lever, then turn around and head back to whatever useless thing they had been doing previously.  Because of the 100 turn delay on the bridge action, the victim would be partway down the bridge before it activated retracted out from under them.  I did need a separate lockable entrance so another dwarf could get to the lever to reset the mechanism.

Had I wanted to kill the intended victim I could have had a drowning chamber or magma pipe or ten Z level pit under the bridge.  Instead, I had only a one Z-level fall, into a walled off chamber with barred entrances so the other dwarves could look in and wave at the prisoner as they slowly starved to death.