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[Renzuko]

alrighty then! i have a question about weapon traps!

do they work automatically, like a cage trap, or do i need to have pressure plates and such?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Weapon traps work automatically.

"Upright weapon"s do need a trigger of some sort (most commonly a lever).

[Renzuko]

yeah i tried unsuccessfully making a huge danger room out of wooden training spears, i decided to close it up when animals and kids kept getting maimed when they went into it for weird reasons

[Wiro]

Is there some way to remove broken arrows?

[proxn_punkd]

yeah i tried unsuccessfully making a huge danger room out of wooden training spears, i decided to close it up when animals and kids kept getting maimed when they went into it for weird reasons

Probably following a parent/owner who's in the military.

[Renzuko]

no, i hadnt set it to patrol, and it was just outside of my barracks, they just went in there for the hell of it

before i forget...fuck come back thought...can i set my military to go all pow on caged invaders and kill them while they're still caged, or do i need to release them to kill em? last time i released them from their cages they terrorized my fort for a few seconds before my military offed them lol

[FuzzyZergling]

Is there some way to remove broken arrows?

Indoors, building and removing a construction, or a dwarf cleaning the tile, should get rid of them.
Outdoors, rain should get rid of them.

[Renzuko]

does making traps for weapon traps (like serrated saw blades) count as metalcrafting or weaponsmithing? cuz i might just get my weaponsmith cranking out those to get him to legendary +5

[FuzzyZergling]

I'm almost completely certain that it is weaponsmithing.

[Renzuko]

alright...just gonna need to get my 4th miner to legendary so i can get to mining more hematite...ran out a while back so my furnace operators have been loafing around lol

[agatharchides]

Is there a good way to coax totems into a give stockpile without a bin? I have made a totem only custom stockpile but the dorfs insist on stuffing my FB head trophies into a lead bin, which rather detracts from the effect.

[tolkafox]

Make a finished goods stockpile that only accepts totems, and turn all bins off. Q over the stockpile and then it's either E or C.

[agatharchides]

Thanks. I resorted to selectively placed dump zones.

[greenskye]

Working on my first pump stack. In the wiki the pump stack example has a door to each containment area on each z level of the pump stack. Is there any reason why you need a door there instead of a wall? Why would you ever want to access this area? Note that this is separate from the door that lets you access the pump.

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[ghiacciato]

Working on my first pump stack. In the wiki the pump stack example has a door to each containment area on each z level of the pump stack. Is there any reason why you need a door there instead of a wall? Why would you ever want to access this area? Note that this is separate from the door that lets you access the pump.

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The topmost one should obviously have some sort of controllable door (if you want to use it for flooding, that is), and maybe it's helpful for the other ones to be easily accesible, too. Something like a fish jamming the pump...do fish get pumped, too?

I've got a question myself: Is it somehow possible to link 2 doors/floodgates to the same lever, so that if I was to pull this lever, one of the doors opens and the other one closes? Basically one lever to control a reservoir, where the doors open alternately and I don't need two levers for filling/draining?