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martinuzz

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Can't find the 8-legged horror
« on: July 13, 2010, 06:00:11 am »

I uncovered my extensive caverns system. Did some probe digging to reveal more of it..
Found 3 spots with GCS webs.
I sent a miner to those spots, in the hope of uncovering the horror, and luring it to my cage traps (which caught a Troll btw), and start a silk farm.
No avail. I've been rather thourough with searching the surroundings of the GCS webs, lost a miner to a Giant bat, but, no GCS popped out of hiding.. Do they wander far? Or is it possible, that they have already died of old age, and only their webs persist?
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Re: Can't find the 8-legged horror
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2010, 06:07:09 am »

I usually just chain up some defenseless animal close to the webs, and wait. IIRC once they leave ambush mode they can't go back to sneaking. I really wouldn't try killing GCS. Their webs are worth oh so much.
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Re: Can't find the 8-legged horror
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2010, 07:11:39 am »

I myself have seen caves full of webs, and no GCS at all, I've only had one later to pop up on a map (And it didn't start in ambush mode oddly enough), I get the idea that a GCS wanders through firing webs about the place and wanders off or some such, since I've had a similar thing many times.
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Re: Can't find the 8-legged horror
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2010, 09:18:54 am »

I myself have seen caves full of webs, and no GCS at all, I've only had one later to pop up on a map (And it didn't start in ambush mode oddly enough), I get the idea that a GCS wanders through firing webs about the place and wanders off or some such, since I've had a similar thing many times.

Maybe they teleport or have *new* features.
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Re: Can't find the 8-legged horror
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2010, 11:09:31 am »

I get the idea that a GCS wanders through firing webs about the place and wanders off or some such

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Re: Can't find the 8-legged horror
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2010, 12:38:32 pm »

Don't worry, it'll find you.

(GCS webs on your map don't mean a GCS is there like they did in 40d. They wander on and off the map like all other cave creatures.)
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