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[Sizik]

If it hasn't made it up the central staircase yet, you could deconstruct the stairs on the fourth level so that it can't reach the rest of the fort (and replace at least one of them with up stairs so that you don't block off the lower levels.

[Microcline]

I also had problems getting the military to attack a forgotten beast.  I don't know what caused it, but the military eventually mobilized.

If it hasn't made it up the central staircase yet, you could deconstruct the stairs on the fourth level so that it can't reach the rest of the fort (and replace at least one of them with up stairs so that you don't block off the lower levels.

If using this strategy, I would use hatch covers.  I think that building destroyers must be on the same z-level as a building to destroy it, so they can't destroy a hatch from below.

[Cheddarius]

I dunno about deconstructing stairs or hatch covers or whatnot... if we just wall off that entire section, how are people going to get to the hospitals and such? It's basically just as good as leaving it alone; it hasn't harmed anybody yet (except for some dogs and numbing one recruit), it's just locked in eternal battle. The problem is people really need to get through the part that it's in, for some reason, so they keep lingering near it and then running away and then coming back and so on.

[Sizik]

Could you post a screenshot of where it is? Tinypic is a good site.

[Cheddarius]

[Sizik]

Pull the lever marked "Seal tomb 1". This will open the floodgates in the magma by the tomb. Then set the doors to be deconstructed, while keeping the forgotten beast occupied, preferably with war dogs or something.

[Cheddarius]

Won't that massacre whoever's there and below?

[Microcline]

Won't that massacre whoever's there and below?

There are no exposed down stairs from the ground floor.  To go below, one must go up to the first floor and then down the central shaft.

It might be difficult to remove the doors with the forgotten beast on the same floor.  However, if you could put hatches over the down stairs on the first floor, it will only have two options: to remain on the ground floor, where it is vulnerable to magma, or go outside, where it is no longer a problem.

If the forgotten beast stays in place and you can remove the doors, Sizik's plan should kill it.

[Cheddarius]

Excellent! I'll try that.

[Cheddarius]

Where is the lever in question? I can't find it.

[Cheddarius]

We killed it! We killed it!
I tried to block it off and flood it with magma, but it was near the doors, so nobody was willing to deconstruct the doors. And then it escaped - but our militia killed it!!!!

[Sizik]

We killed it! We killed it!

Excelle-

I tried to block it off and flood it with magma, but it was near the doors, so nobody was willing to deconstruct the doors. And then it escaped - but our militia killed it!!!!

... Savescum and try again!

[Cheddarius]

Hah! If you can't do it with magma, you might as well not do it at all, eh?


With the beast gone, every day is sunshiny and fine, and all things go well!

[Cheddarius]

Aw frig, another forgotten beast! What's wrong with this fortress?!

[Cheddarius]

Apparently this one has trapavoid; I saw it go right over a cage trap without being caught.
The military will have to deal with it, I guess.
It's on level -3, the level we've mined out extensively.