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[darkflagrance]

So I had a titan in a cage, set up in a temple on the edge of the map, hooked up to a lever in my dining room. I leave it there so that when a siege comes, I can release it and let it devour nearby enemies.

One fine spring, I'm unforbidding the corpses of goblin snatchers that ran into my weapon trap, when I notice that the titan's constituent parts are strewn all over the ground nearby.

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It looks like the titan somehow exploded within its cage, and the bodyparts rained down upon my entrance.

I know that there's a bug that causes the remains of things that die in cages to teleport back to the location where they were caged; for example, the clothing of caged goblins thrown into magma will reappear back at the trap site on fire. Maybe that had something to do with it?

[CaptainNitpick]

It looks like the titan somehow exploded within its cage, and the bodyparts rained down upon my entrance.

I know that there's a bug that causes the remains of things that die in cages to teleport back to the location where they were caged; for example, the clothing of caged goblins thrown into magma will reappear back at the trap site on fire. Maybe that had something to do with it?

That would explain the bits winding up at the entrance, but not the initial exploding.

[Doomshifter]

If you ask me, it looks like EACH AND EVERY SINGLE PART of this titan was neatly torn off and placed in that spot.

Weird, sadist dwarf maybe?

[Skorpion]

This calls for a blitz on titan bone crafts.

[o_O[WTFace]]

What happens to units in cages when a hostile attacks them?  I never tested it but from experience dogs seem to die faster in cages then on restraints.  Maybe a stray merchant guard or goblin decided to fight it. 

Hmm, environmental damage hits every single part but I doubt it could do something like that...

I have no idea. 

[dogstile]

That's so weird

[Grimlocke]

...ok, done laughing now. Dont think ill ever get tired of these forums

*ahem* yeah, I realy only seen this happen with thermonuclear cats. Even his shoulders are there, somehow. I suppose you could explain it all ending up there with the cage trap bug, but why it was so utterly dismembered in its cage... I realy wouldnt know. Titans dont have sever on breaks, and even if something attacks it in its cage, it couldnt do THAT to it.

Its also funny how that cage still weighs so much even though just about every single bit of titan was strewn across your entrance.

[Rowanas]

Hmm. Is there biting cold in your fortress or blinding heat? Was it trained and tamed?

[darkflagrance]

It was still wild, because I never tame megabeasts (when the fort collapses, tame creatures die, but wild ones stick around).

The water does freeze in the winter. Maybe that had something to do with it?

[Foxbyte]

My guess is that the cage was too small for the Titan; the sheer compressive force that it was under caused it to burst open the cage opening. Much like a can of fake snakes.

Dwarves go that one step further with their practical jokes.

[Jim Groovester]

This is the first time I've ever seen anything like this before. Do you think it might be reproducable? Because that looks like a bug of some sort.

How'd the titan get caught? Did it get stunned and fall into the weapon trap? Maybe it was caught in some sort of continuous falling state or something, reached a hard limit of falling, and then exploded.

This is pure speculation on my part.

[Retro]

It looks like the titan somehow exploded within its cage, and the bodyparts rained down upon my entrance.

Oh man. I enjoyed that pretty thoroughly.

[Quantum Toast]

Maybe it tried to squeeze between the bars, and partly succeeded.