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[Fastler]

I just got a notice saying that the lost one "Kor Gorrothkurik" has arrived. It is a blob of salt with a tail.

My question is: Will it dissolve in water? Because if so, I already have the entire first cave system connected directly to a river. Pull the lever and poof, no monster.
But I would rather not do that and then find out that nothing happens.

[Hyndis]

Its one of those unkillable beasts. Inorganic solid creatures are unkillable with regular weapons currently.

[FallingWhale]

if it has lungs (for some reason) it'll still work, so pull the lever and hope; it probably won't work though

[Rowanas]

The whole Forgotten Beast feature has raised a plethora of lame bugs/features that need to get fixed asap. It's way more urgent than some of the things he's been working on.

[Kidiri]

The whole Forgotten Beast feature has raised a plethora of lame bugs/features that need to get fixed asap. It's way more urgent than some of the things he's been working on.

I think crashes are a bit more urgent than unkillable megabeasts, which sometimes (in my eyes, at least) should be unkillable. Or very hard to kill.

[Halo]

They're not unkillible, they just can't be killed with axes and crossbows. It seems reasonable to me that some creatures require caveins, magma, etc to be killed.

[Hyndis]

They're not unkillible, they just can't be killed with axes and crossbows. It seems reasonable to me that some creatures require caveins, magma, etc to be killed.

I definitely agree that titans, forgotten beasts, and other mythical creatures should be hard to kill. You need to kill them with dwarven engineering and dwarven science. Mere hammers and axes cannot hope to stop them.

Its as it should be.

But some people complain about it. 

Also forgotten beasts really should take up more than 1 tile. Multi-tile creatures are not in the game yet, but if sizes were accurately represented in the game that forgotten beast would probably be like 8 tiles across. You're going to need some more firepower to take it down. All you can hope to do is hurt it with axes, but you cannot kill something so huge and so old with simple axes.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Multi-tile creatures are not in the game yet

I feel a nitpicky urge to point out wagons are technically creatures.

[Flaede]

And, indeed, you can mod in things to be created out of "wagon bones" and make buckets of "wagon blood".

[Halo]

I thought wagons were taken out of the game in 31? I sure haven't seen any.

[cakeonslaught]

maybe your civ is dead...

[Quietust]

I thought wagons were taken out of the game in 31? I sure haven't seen any.

They most definitely were not removed - they're still in the creature definitions (see creature_equipment.txt). The most likely reason you never see them is because none of your nearby civilizations have access to muskoxen, the only creatures in 0.31 that have [WAGON_PULLER] (in 40d, horses were also eligible, and horses are domestic and thus available to everyone).

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

And, indeed, you can mod in things to be created out of "wagon bones" and make buckets of "wagon blood".

I've seen "larch wagon" on my units list as deceased before.

[Flaede]

well, the local ELVES have muskoxen (I traded for some!) but I guess they wouldn't use wagons anyway.