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[ShadowLuigi147]

So, basically, I'm going to try use a magma and possibly water, so do any of you use them? If you do, post some plans or something. I'm not sure how to go about this, but I think I can use a series of ramps down to a bottomless pit to dump the lava/water. Possibly build above it to make a torture device, but I dunno yet.

[Danjen]

Make a pit/garbage zone about a magma square and throw junk into it.

[ShadowLuigi147]

Oh...well..thats just simple...

[yuriatayde]

Build a dump site over a drawbridge. Once full of trash, you pull a lever to launch the garbage across the air, to land in a big pool of magma. With some modifications, you could use the same system to make obsidian. Depending on how far it flings the trash, you could build it to launch over an area where dwarfs live/work/congregate. Personally, I'd make it over the trade depot for the WTF reactions. My fort would be world renowned as the traders explain their first hand experiences with garbage flying overhead for no good reason! Could I have found a more efficient way to deal with my trash? Maybe...

[ShadowLuigi147]

Good idea...now, instead, make them fire over your walls and into the enemies when they siege. You could do it with body parts too...
The look on the elves faces when a barrage of assorted body parts hit them

[Heliomance]

Build a dump site over a drawbridge. Once full of trash, you pull a lever to launch the garbage across the air, to land in a big pool of magma. With some modifications, you could use the same system to make obsidian. Depending on how far it flings the trash, you could build it to launch over an area where dwarfs live/work/congregate. Personally, I'd make it over the trade depot for the WTF reactions. My fort would be world renowned as the traders explain their first hand experiences with garbage flying overhead for no good reason! Could I have found a more efficient way to deal with my trash? Maybe...

Nah, Dwarven Science was performed on the bridgeapult. It's far too unpredictable to actually use in such a manner. Far from launching everything on it in the direction of raising, that's the one direction in which stuff won't go.

[gerkinzola]

by rubbish u do mean captives right? well toss them off a 100z level tower on to a bridge and procede to fling the bodyparts at sieges or u could just toss them 100z levels onto enemies

[Sphalerite]

I have built an automatic device for incinerating refuse with magma in my current fortress, Pagedslipped.

The device is built around a single tile stockpile which accepts remains, body parts, rotten skins and spoiled food, and other undesirable materials.  Access to the refuse stockpile is through a short corridor containing pressure plates and hatches.  The first pressure plate is a safety switch which triggers only for friendly creatures of less than size six.  This is linked to a hatch over an escapable pit immediately following it, and serves as a safety device to keep children and pets from following dwarves through the device.

Immediately before the refuse pile is a second pressure plate which triggers for adult dwarves.  This pressure plate opens a hatch in the entrance corridor, blocking the dwarf from exiting the way he came in, and opens a door to a different corridor leading out of the chamber.  When a dwarf drops off a chunk of refuse in the pile, he will then find the way he came in blocked, and will have to take a separate path out.

The path out has a pressure plate which opens a floor hatch, holding a tile full of magma, above the refuse pile.  It also triggers a floodgate located on the exit of a pump which removes magma from the pile.  The hatch triggers immediately, dropping the magma on the pile.  A hundred ticks later the floodgate opens and the magma is removed from the pile and pumped back onto the top of the floor hatch.  This is enough time for the refuse to catch on fire.  Once it has burned away, the device is clear and ready to use again.

This device automatically incinerates refuse, and requires no manual activation on my part at all.  It's also so far failed to accidentally set any dwarves or animals on fire.

[Skorpion]

I'm currently using a system of a small doored chamber enclosing a grate and the 'out' end of a steel screw pump.
Refuse is dumped on the grate. When there is a sufficient amount, the doors are locked and the pump pumped.
The magma goes up, and then back down through the grate, until the pump is stopped. Things catch fire, rocks should melt, and smoke clears out through a grate in the ceiling.