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TBot Alpha

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Re: Creating a pit/death drop
« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2009, 04:20:27 pm »
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but how far down do I have to drop prisoners for them to die/explode?
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Re: Creating a pit/death drop
« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2009, 04:22:29 pm »
Quote from: TBot Alpha on December 23, 2009, 04:20:27 pm
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but how far down do I have to drop prisoners for them to die/explode?
There was another thread, where it was found out that 15 z levels is the minimum height to make kittens splat and explode.
10 levels should make them die too, however.
In doubt, make the pit higher.
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Re: Creating a pit/death drop
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2009, 04:28:51 pm »
15 z-levels seems like a lot. Do you think size would affect the minimum height? A goblin soldier wearing armor (all of my prisoners) would be larger and heavier than a kitten.
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Re: Creating a pit/death drop
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2009, 04:31:07 pm »
Ive dropped hundreds of orcs and goblins ten Z-levels and never seen one live.  At nine levels I sometimes had one survive with massive injuries.
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Re: Creating a pit/death drop
« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2009, 04:57:03 pm »
Quote from: TBot Alpha on December 23, 2009, 04:28:51 pm
15 z-levels seems like a lot. Do you think size would affect the minimum height? A goblin soldier wearing armor (all of my prisoners) would be larger and heavier than a kitten.

If the falling physics work anything like real life then weight doesn't matter, as everything falls at the same rate (barring friction from the frontal area exposed to the air).  Regardless, I am pretty sure DF treats all creatures the same when it comes to falling great distances, and my experience follows that of others in that 10 z levels seems to be the minimum for certain death, while 15 seems to guarantee exploding bodies.
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Re: Creating a pit/death drop
« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2009, 06:38:01 pm »
Quote from: Thingmabob on December 23, 2009, 10:24:26 am
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Because kicking wrestling off the face of a 15z level pit is dangerous, we're using hammerdwarf golf!
If the goblin doesn't explode when it hits the wall, it will when it hits the floor.

Just use an external lever somewhere to release the goblin from the cage, at which the hammerdwarf stationed will swing his hammer with a force of preferably over ten thousand dNewtons, accelerating the goblin towards the wall, and then the floor.

The pit can always be made wider/longer, and a sacrificial altar should be placed at the bottom. The rain of body parts from either the first or second impact will help coat a large area in pools of blood.
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Re: Creating a pit/death drop
« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2009, 06:46:43 pm »
Actually, that "barring friction from air resistance" is pretty important for living things....moreso than you'd think.  From a nice essay by the biologist J.B.S. Haldane "On being the right size"
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You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object. Divide an animal’s length, breadth, and height each by ten; its weight is reduced to a thousandth, but its surface only to a hundredth. So the resistance to falling in the case of the small animal is relatively ten times greater than the driving force.
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