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[Xerillum]

I can see it now: Dwarven mecha right foot lifts off, then left foot before right lands...

"A section of the cavern has collapsed!"

I guess it's time for dwarven life-alert now.

Also, I'd build massive double doors with statues and stuff built into them.

[NewSheoth]

I can see it now: Dwarven mecha right foot lifts off, then left foot before right lands...

"A section of the cavern has collapsed!"

I guess it's time for dwarven life-alert now.

Also, I'd build massive double doors with statues and stuff built into them.

http://www.tuckborough.net/images/great-gateMT.jpg

With each statue row representing a z-level.
Or better, with the entire thing being cast obsidian, including the statues.

[John Keel]

Hate to rain magma on the parade, but any sort of dwarven mecha would require a massively more complex physics model. Unless the moving parts are the "one bit moves, the other anchors, and which is which never changes" sort, DF would have to calculate the mass, moment of inertia, and force applied or all sorts of things or things would get weird. And that would be ridiculously hard to display as well, as rotation would wreak all sorts of havoc.

[squeakyReaper]

Imagine if he gives us something simple.  A system where, when activated or given power, the object moves in a given direction.  Anything relying on that object for support moves as well. It does not move if something is in the way.

Do you have any idea how much we could do with /just that/?

[NewSheoth]

Imagine if he gives us something simple.  A system where, when activated or given power, the object moves in a given direction.  Anything relying on that object for support moves as well. It does not move if something is in the way.

Do you have any idea how much we could do with /just that/?

That would actually be the best turn of events.
With enough effort, it would make even the craziest projects a reality.

[Jake]

A surface settlement that retracts into the ground, rows of siege engine turrets rising in its place, and launch rails for dwarven mecha to be deployed whenever a Titan comes calling.

[Untelligent]

Mile-high magma pump, probably.

[nordak]

We already have an orbital magma canon...

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

I'm picturing three or four dorfs holding stones and waiting for an elevator to arrive.

Me too. Also my fort defeated cause my soldiers couldn't get to the elevator due to overusage from civilians going to burrows.

[fivex]

A giant hammer made of obsidian floodgates and filled with magma.
It would swing down and all the flood gates would open for a split second.

[Zrk2]

A METAL GEAR!!!

[Encased in burning magma]

Oooh I know!

A giant wheel-fortress than rolls around the map, CRUSHING EVERYTHING UNDER IT'S ADAMANTINE TIRE.

 BAHAHAHA

[Musashi]

Elevators! Many elevators! And crushing walls! And moving platforms! Nothing that could possibly make life easier for all my Urist McToodumbtolive, in short.

[Gatleos]

Personally, I think the possibilities that arise from combining moving fortress sections with dwarfputing are so great it's almost scary. Even with the constraints that the system is sure to have, megaprojects will never be the same. Personally I like the constantly shifting maze of insanity idea. And the ballistae on wheels. And the Hammer of Armok could finally be a reality.

[b1gb0y2013]

GOBLIN COMPRESSOR!!!!!!!!!

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Behold the mighty obsidian pistons!