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[mrtspence]

Hi all, just finished my first big project in my newest Fortress--a massive pressure washer. The best part is, it washes baddies 60 z levels into my first cavern.

It killed 9 gobbos at once (they clumped up like fools and kept walking into the stream) hilariously, and the only maintainence is taking five seconds to pump more water in (soon that too will be automated).

Anyone else used a pressure washer for defense? Surely there must be some of immense dwarfiness and power?

[Johnny Madhouse]

Look, I know you're proud of your accomplishment and are using a thin veil of interest in other people's pressure washers to talk about your own, but you should totally post some screenshots so everyone can talk about how awesome their pressure washers are and point out the inefficiencies in yours.

EDIT: I'm sorry, that was needlessly cynical. I am interested in seeing your pressure washer though! Water traps are always neat.

[mrtspence]

Look, I know you're proud of your accomplishment and are using a thin veil of interest in other people's pressure washers to talk about your own, but you should totally post some screenshots so everyone can talk about how awesome their pressure washers are and point out the inefficiencies in yours.

EDIT: I'm sorry, that was needlessly cynical. I am interested in seeing your pressure washer though! Water traps are always neat.

xD, nothing like a really inflammatory post to kick things off, haha!

Recommend me to a good screenshot program and I will happily take some.

What makes me particularly proud is not so much the scope of it (I am sure someone has built a pressure washer of unspeakable magnitudes--which I would love to see) but the trigger area. I will try and use some letter diagrams until I get some screen caps:


                    XXXXXXX
    X XX        XwwwwwX        OK! X=Wall, w is water, O is the pit they get washed into, P is the pressure plate linked to the door of the pressure washer, and F is a
    X   XXXXXXX wwwwX        fortification to keep the door safe. The lower D is the door to my fort, and also serves to keep the water rushing straight ahead rather
    XXOP    FDwwwwwwX       than into my fortress.
     XXXXXDXX wwwwwX
     XXXXX  XX wwwwwX
     XXXXX  XXXXXXXXX

[bdunwithat]

You mentioend that it knockes them 60 zlevels down correct? so the pit must travel through your dining room right? Please tell me im right! XD

Gobbo falls are all the rage now, gives players happy thoughts

[Gnauga]

If you're using a windows, ctrl+print screen will take a screenshot of your entire screen. Paste into paint or your image manipulation program of choice, save and upload onto an image hosting website of choice.

[ivansanchez]

Gobbo falls are all the rage now, gives players happy thoughts

Floor has been ecstatic lately. It took joy in slaughter lately. It had a nice bath recently.

[mrtspence]

You mentioend that it knockes them 60 zlevels down correct? so the pit must travel through your dining room right? Please tell me im right! XD

Gobbo falls are all the rage now, gives players happy thoughts

No, unfortunately it just goes through someone's bedroom.

I am considering building the king's room around it and replacing the walls with diamond windows though.

[Comp112]

Spence! I had no idea you played DF! message me eh!

Anyway, this is rather interesting, may try to make my own sometime soon.

[Shoku]

If you're going to try to represent it with text you should use the code box. Type it out with bbc brackets or just click the little # button above the last smilie. It gives things their own little box and makes all of the letters the same width so you don't have to fiddle with lining them up.
iiiii
WWWWW

Code: [Select]

.....
iiiii
WWWWW
But really in most situations pressing print screen, and then ctrl+v into MS Paint will get you a screenshot pretty quick. We usually type stuff out for planning and screenshot to show something we've actually made.

[mrtspence]

If you're going to try to represent it with text you should use the code box. Type it out with bbc brackets or just click the little # button above the last smilie. It gives things their own little box and makes all of the letters the same width so you don't have to fiddle with lining them up.
iiiii
WWWWW

Code: [Select]

.....
iiiii
WWWWW
But really in most situations pressing print screen, and then ctrl+v into MS Paint will get you a screenshot pretty quick. We usually type stuff out for planning and screenshot to show something we've actually made.

This was helpful.

Ok.

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Top of the reservoir (the corpse was due to a flaw in my pumping area--he got washed into that enclosed space and drowned).

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Here is near the bottom of that pit, which shortly opens up too...

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My cavern. I will eventually build glass walls around the chute in the cavern, then continue mining the pit down into my second cavern, and then maybe the magma sea.

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And here is the cool part. I will likely smooth and engrave this area, but only after enough gobbos have plummeted to their dooms (right now all my engravings are of people dehydrating--not nearly as exciting).

Feedback GO!

[Stenbein]

I like this kind of trap. It's giving me some ideas. I like the drain down to the cavern. But what about goblinite? Or not worried about the metal supply?

[mrtspence]

I like this kind of trap. It's giving me some ideas. I like the drain down to the cavern. But what about goblinite? Or not worried about the metal supply?

I find enough get slaughtered by the weapon traps on the way in, that I am never in short supply. Also, this trap is really ideally designed for titans/other things with Trapavoid. I also recently added a lever to dispose of nobles.

[fivex]

I like this kind of trap. It's giving me some ideas. I like the drain down to the cavern. But what about goblinite? Or not worried about the metal supply?

I find enough get slaughtered by the weapon traps on the way in, that I am never in short supply. Also, this trap is really ideally designed for titans/other things with Trapavoid. I also recently added a lever to dispose of nobles.

Pressure plates aren't triggered by trapavoid monsters

[mrtspence]

I like this kind of trap. It's giving me some ideas. I like the drain down to the cavern. But what about goblinite? Or not worried about the metal supply?

I find enough get slaughtered by the weapon traps on the way in, that I am never in short supply. Also, this trap is really ideally designed for titans/other things with Trapavoid. I also recently added a lever to dispose of nobles.

Pressure plates aren't triggered by trapavoid monsters

Levers work though

[Lormax]

Seems like a very short amount of time for a lever to stop a building destroying, trap avoider before it busts through that door.

Is the pressure plate activation of the door almost instant?