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[Deon]

The problem is that drawbridges and creatures throw in random directions . A random teleporter would work: just build a tower with a drawbridge atop of it, and fling creatures. It's a one-way travel to hell though.

and I never did understand how to "pit" things correctly.

Assign a pit/pond, assign creatures to it: voila! If it's more than 1 z-level drop, put a water under it.

[Truean]

Don't creatures throw each other in fight?
Could you like build something that just constantly throws everything on to of it one tile in a specified reaction if supplied 5 power?
You would need an enormous amount of gears and axles for that, and a really big Reactor, but you could build a spaced out fortress with quick transportation by having a storage area on the first tile.
So far I'm trying to solve it by having automated water-cannons that project an item through a corridor when placed on a pressure plate.^^

Lol, I'd be happy if you proved Deon and I wrong, but I dunno. Best of luck. There used to be "magic" mods with healing, mood enhancements, and even teleporting statues. Not sure if it worked right or was buggy as hell though.

[Truean]

Assign a pit/pond, assign creatures to it: voila! If it's more than 1 z-level drop, put a water under it.

I'll have to try that. How can I determine which item is "pitted?"

[Deon]

That's the problem honestly. There's no indication if a creature is pitted or not, so I just assign all I need. If it's already in the pit, they won't pit it again if they have no direct access (forbid doors to the pit).

[Ramirez]

You could script in workshops to turn things into ballista bolts and back again and use ballistas to move them long distances (using a z-level drop so they don't suffer existence failure). Trains your seige engineers/operators and gets things moved long distances in a hurry.

[derigo]

lol awesome idea!  I don't think you could preserve the quality of the items though.  even if you used the GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT matgloss.

So if you decided to transform an artifact mica ring in this fashion, you would end up with a no quality mica ring on the other end.  I could easily be wrong if someone wants to correct me.

>>   [PROFESSION_NAME:SIEGE_OPERATOR:mail man:mail men]

[UnLimiTeD]

Can't you just make the "ballista" to accept and shoot specific materials? A special siege weapon with shorter range that will only fire stones or metal ores or whatever seems like a decent enough idea^^.

Btw. is this thread actually meant as as a start for a 'pure building' addon?
Totally would want that.

[derigo]

There's no way to make custom siege engines (that we're aware of), and the original is hardcoded and thus uneditable. All you can play with is the ammo.

[Truean]

Hum, possible issues:

Noise.

Do Custom Workshops like theaters make noise when used that will wake a Dwarf up or give an unhappy thought? I build bedrooms around dining halls. The idea of dinner theater is just too good to pass up.

Will the theater piss off the dwarves?

[derigo]

Sausage making!
prepared intestines + meat + seed(spice)= sausagex2

[UnLimiTeD]

Just make a mod with all the existing workshops that doesn't kill my pc on world generation with several new civilizations and dozens of critters^^

[Deon]

Just take those files from my mod and use them
All building*.txt and reaction_*.txt and add them under permitted reactions and buildings.

[Truean]

Just take those files from my mod and use them
All building*.txt and reaction_*.txt and add them under permitted reactions and buildings.

I actually have a stripped down version similar to Deon's mod somewhat like this. However, it is probably more based upon other contributors based in other threads like:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53095.30

It is all piecemeal and crap; whereas his is well put together.

[UnLimiTeD]

Yeah, Deon, thanks for the offer, I totally did that already, but I fail at it.
The Crematory won't produce any Ash, and I fear I have to add an object or material or whatever somewhere and 5 years into a fort I notice something not working. I guess I'm just too much perfectionist to take risks 
Even though I've probably got bad rolls last time I crashed on World gen, what with way over 2m events and my RAM full^^

Still thanks

[Deon]

Well you do not need anything but building_crematorium.txt and reaction_crematorium.txt for it to work.