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[short_dwarf]

My doors that seperate the left side of my fortress and the chasm keep being destroyed. I dunno whats doing it either... I already lost three doors and the only thing near it is a bat. The bat doesn't have buildig destroying on it either I already checked....

[Mechanoid]

put a trap in front of the door to crush and kill anything that may be destroying the door.
[As well, move the door back a tile from the chasm, so that there's a ledge. This way chasm creatures wont be able to attack the door from the chasm, and will have to actually come out from it to destroy it (which is where the stone fall /weapon /cage trap comes in)]

[ December 03, 2006: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

[short_dwarf]

Thanks but i just found out what it was...took another 5 doors but i finally found out it was a troll that for some resean just wants to destroy one door and then run... even though he ended up being very damaged when one of my dwarves finally found out what it is. Must of been from falling back into the chasm i guess.

[Squishy]

Stupid juvenile trolls and their door-destroying contests.

Don't they know how fatal that can be?

[Varil]

Kind of like knocking on a door then running away.

Troll : "TEE-HEE. ME FUNNIES."

*KNOCK KNOCK CRUNCH*

"OOPS. SILLY NOT-TROLL DOOR."

*runs away, giggling in the way only Trolls can...scarily.*

Also : short_dwarf...gnome? Hobbit?

[Angela Christine]

Heh, I had that happen in one fort too.  Mischievous little trolls.  

I think what happens is that they Troll destroys the door, but then he doesn't see anything interesting.  There aren't any dwarves or other juicy targets nearby, so he wanders in random directions for a while, which takes him back the chasm.  By the time a dwarf arrives with a new door, the troll is gone.  Later a troll pops out of the chasm and sees the new door, starting the cycle again.

Putting a trap on the chasm side of the door does seem to stop it.

[axus]

I had a troll come from the chasm and knock down a door, without beind seen.  When I found him, he had a broken arm and broken leg, and was unconscious half the time.  I figured it would be a good opportunity to train my new hunter turned wrestler dwarf.  He struggled for many many turns trying to hurt this troll, but I don't think he even damaged it.  Eventually the troll smashed him unconscious with one hit, and then finished him a bit later.

So, don't underestimate even an injured troll.  Just shoot from a distance  

[short_dwarf]

To the question about my name being a gnome or hobbit....no just a dwarf who is shorter than normal  

[short_dwarf]

i meant to write this in my post just before this... the injured troll died because it cept going uncaunsious. A simple peasant killed it while passing by.