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immibis

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Need ideas for caged goblins
« on: March 07, 2010, 02:51:19 am »

What should I do with 10 caged goblins?
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2010, 03:03:07 am »

Make an arena and drop other things you've caged into the pit.
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2010, 03:17:01 am »

xactly, dwarf training!

(drop them from really high places for nice gore effects :D)
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2010, 03:18:51 am »

1: Catch some carp, and put them into a pool.
2: Drop goblins in.
And you got yourself a brand new ORGANIC MINCER!
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2010, 03:21:26 am »

place them in your favorite dwarve's tombs, so they have something to fight in the afterlife.
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2010, 03:30:01 am »

I just tested my new floodable arena with them (and some cows). Works perfectly.

Catching carp? Are you nuts? (this map doesn't have carp anyway, but it has pike and longnose gar which seem to be just as deadly)
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2010, 03:33:29 am »

Caught some more goblins and a human (while the human caravan was at my depot, too).
Same for them?
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2010, 03:41:26 am »

+1 respect point if you can turn a gobbo back into each one of its component parts.  I think the highest I have ever done is like 6 out of 10 or 12.  Also, see http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=50624.0
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2010, 07:48:05 am »

Wait. You have a floodable arena and still don't know what to do with yer gobs? :o
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2010, 01:23:54 pm »

Watch out for the human, I thoguht releasing mine was perfectly safe but he turned on me and got shot in the head by a dwarf named after me (after the human butchered a pet kitten so he wasn't entirely wasted)
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2010, 01:45:50 pm »

I've only got one goblin.  He sits in his cage by my Count's bed and reads him bedtimes storie.  I assume he's suitably snarky about it.
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2010, 01:56:38 pm »

Hehe, I like throwing them into a small room above my magma pipe that has a retractable bridge fora floor. The walls are fortifications. I removed all the goblins items first because you know, free loot. Then I order my marksdwarves to kill them whereafter they are released into the fiery maw of armok. This way he doesn't have to chew and my dwarves get experience.
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2010, 06:11:59 pm »

Pick a spot on the top z-level of your map. Pick the same spot at the bottom z-level of your map. Remove all earth in between. Insert goblin to play.

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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2010, 06:41:29 pm »

Mush them into goo, then use that good to make a giant Goblin robot.
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Re: Need ideas for caged goblins
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2010, 12:04:25 am »

Wait. You have a floodable arena and still don't know what to do with yer gobs? :o
I built it as the result of this thread. It's nothing much, just a rectangular room with pumps leading in and out and a hole in the ceiling to throw goblins in. Not even a very big rectangular room, since it's my first arena.
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