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[Chattox]

If you were to attach a dwarf (or any other living thing for that matter) to a restraint, and then removed all but one of the tiles around the restraint, making sure the victim was stood on one of them, causing him to fall, what would happen? Would the victim be strangled and die? Would he automatically dodge to another tile?

[einstein9073]

If you were to attach a dwarf (or any other living thing for that matter) to a restraint, and then removed all but one of the tiles around the restraint, making sure the victim was stood on one of them, causing him to fall, what would happen? Would the victim be strangled and die? Would he automatically dodge to another tile?

I've heard tales of this being done to cats (of course).

IIRC, what happened was the cat fell 10 Z-levels, then bungeed back up to the restraint tile. No cats were injured in the performance of (this) Dwarven Science.

[Akura]

I think I've heard they just hang in the air, not dying, but not doing anything else. I think I also heard that deconstructing the restrain causes them to fall. Suspending a goblin commander over a pit of lava, (should be) painful enough as it sounds, then forcing him to watch his comrades thrown in, listening to their burning screams, then cutting the rope(via a lever linkup, since the gobbo might scare anyone deconstructing it) and dropping him in. It's all very dwarfy.

[Dariush]

Suspending a cat over a pit of lava, (should be) painful enough as it sounds, then forcing it to watch it's kittens thrown in, listening to their burning screams, then cutting the rope(via a lever linkup, since the cat might force into empathy anyone deconstructing it) and dropping it in. It's all very dwarfy.

Fix'd.

[Cotes]

Someone please confirm whether bungee or hanging what happens, and if it's hanging, does it count as infinite free-fall. Because that might but dwarves into stasis.

[gtmattz]

Someone please confirm whether bungee or hanging what happens, and if it's hanging, does it count as infinite free-fall. Because that might but dwarves into stasis.

I am sure that 20 minutes of dwarven science in a test fort would give you a concrete answer one way or the other...

[Sphalerite]

I have tested this in 40d.  I haven't tested it in DF2010, but I have no reason to suspect the physics have changed.  In 40d the moment a creature becomes airborne it is removed from the chain.  It will not bungee back or walk back on its own.  It will still be assigned to the chain, so provided it survives and the chain is still reachable a dwarf will eventually come along and drag it back to the chain.

[Toast024]

Someone should Dwarvern Bungee off the

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OVER 2000 Z LEVEL ADAMENTINE SPIRE

[Double A]

Someone should Dwarvern Bungee off the

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OVER 2000 Z LEVEL ADAMENTINE SPIRE

I just had a, wait, what do I call this? A dwarfgasm?

[Toast024]

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