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[Ayeohx]

I had a pretty tall tower that I dug out.  Really nice, had a pool on the top, really swank.  Anyhow, I decided to trash it for "fun".  I dug out the bottom floor but it stayed up.  Found that I had to et rid of the walkways.  While taking down the final piece my computer locked up for about 15 seconds and then I started getting a nice lengthy murder death list!  So exciting!  Afterwards there was water everywhere, furniture here and there and lil dead guys all over the place.  Twas glorious.  Highly recommended!

[Kaphonaits]

*Kaphonaits blinks several times due to lack of sleep*

Wait.. what?

[spokehedz]

this is a pretty good way to get rid of dwarves that are useless... nobles, for example. also, dwarves with too many cats.

build a tall tower (at least 10z) and put his/her bed at the top. wait until they fall asleep, and make another one of your useless cheesemakers into a miner and as his last glorious act have him remove the bottom level. two dwarves with one tower.

[Quietust]

I personally prefer the method of activating them into the military, stationing them inside my garbage disposal (a Dwarven Atom Smasher), then having another dwarf pull the lever. It's reusable, and it doesn't leave any mess behind. The only problem is that it doesn't work on children or nobles (unless you can micromanage them into removing a construction inside it).

[spokehedz]

I personally prefer the method of activating them into the military, stationing them inside my garbage disposal (a Dwarven Atom Smasher), then pulling the lever in order to activate it.

but that way, you cannot recover the items that the dwarfs took to themselves.

this is on maps where i don't have water. otherwise, i make a resettable water trap that i saw on here a while back, and use that so i can recover all the items that the dorfs/gobbo/pointy-eared-bastards had on them before they were sent to Dwarfy Jones' locker.

[spokehedz]

my mistake, it's not water it was magma... but this was the video i was referring to:

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1931-theultimatelavatrap

i have something very similar that uses water, only for the sake of i usually forget and use one non-bauxite mechanism or whatever and it would melt.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Couldn't you build a 10 z-level tower with say, a 5-tile bridge leading to a lever? Link the lever to the bridge, then have the dwarf pull it.

[LordDemon]

my mistake, it's not water it was magma... but this was the video i was referring to:

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1931-theultimatelavatrap

i have something very similar that uses water, only for the sake of i usually forget and use one non-bauxite mechanism or whatever and it would melt.

I get most of the idea behind the trap, but what are the middle row supports? I didn't recognize the image? How was it done?

[Ayeohx]

Couldn't you build a 10 z-level tower with say, a 5-tile bridge leading to a lever? Link the lever to the bridge, then have the dwarf pull it.

Are you saying that you can support a building from the edge of a bridge? If so then that can lead to all sorts of doom.  I'll have to try it.

[spokehedz]

my mistake, it's not water it was magma... but this was the video i was referring to:

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1931-theultimatelavatrap

i have something very similar that uses water, only for the sake of i usually forget and use one non-bauxite mechanism or whatever and it would melt.

I get most of the idea behind the trap, but what are the middle row supports? I didn't recognize the image? How was it done?

You can see the map here, and it is kind of self explanatory...

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-7839