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[The Tyrant]

And it was the most anticlimatic thing I've ever done.

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Two hits and dead. I checked out the Legends page afterwards. Turns out it was made of mud!

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It only had to body parts anyway, the shell and the body. Not sure how it would of fought back even if I gave it the opitunity.

[minno]

Anything made out of an inorganic material is either pathetically weak, or nearly indestructible.  I've killed a salt demon by kicking it, but bronze colossuses and gem/metal titans are almost impossible to kill without steel or adamantine weapons.

[ShoesandHats]

My first titan was WAY more anticlimactic. It turned out it was made entirely out of steam, and only took one hit to the chest to take down.

[Ale and Axes]

Yeah, Titans like that are the weakest. Sometimes they can still be dangerous if they have a special attack of some kind. Like the forest Titan I killed the other day that was made of flames, it melted all my meatshield companions (while I cunningly flanked in safety). But after that first flame/steam blast it died in one hit to the body.

Today killed a Titan that was a giant mockingbird made of glass. That was harder, I was slashing and stabbing it for ages, only managing to chip and fracture body parts before one hit cut the torso in half. A Pikeman companion was hurting it more, he removed a couple of limbs but somehow I got the killing blow. Maybe he softened it up for me or something.

[freeformschooler]

Speaking of which... I know there's a titan number in the worldgen options. However, Toady mentioned something about a "hard cap" -- are we able to have as many titans as we want or only 16 max or something? I wanna be able to be a titan slayer wherever I go!

[ral]

In custom worldgen parameters you can up the number of titans to 100,000. (Though it says titans, I believe it actually means all megabeasts.)

The problem is that with 100,000 megabeasts running around the history generation will take forever as all of them roam around and do stuff.

I generated a pocket world with 10,000 "titans" and history generation wasn't too bad, but I ended up with small communities of 10+ megabeasts per lair/site instead of the usual one per site. Even with a small army that can become a little unmanageable.

[Ale and Axes]

I generated a pocket world with 10,000 "titans" and history generation wasn't too bad, but I ended up with small communities of 10+ megabeasts per lair/site instead of the usual one per site. Even with a small army that can become a little unmanageable.

I think that sounds ridiculously awesome!

[freeformschooler]

I generated a pocket world with 10,000 "titans" and history generation wasn't too bad, but I ended up with small communities of 10+ megabeasts per lair/site instead of the usual one per site. Even with a small army that can become a little unmanageable.

I think that sounds ridiculously awesome!

Yeah, titans for all! They've always been my favorite "creatures". I even sometimes use DFusion to play as one and go on adventures and stuff!

[Misterstone]

Spoily-critters from the circus can be like this too.  I once accidentally released them and decided to try and put up a pathetic fight.  THe first dozen or so of these things were made of frost, steam etc. so my crossbow dwarf squad actually held them off for a while, one shot one kill.  It was pretty heroic.  Then some more solids ones showed up and it was pretty much downhill from there.

[MasterMorality]

How many megabeasts does it usually generate for a large world?

[freeformschooler]

How many megabeasts does it usually generate for a large world?

Not too many as I recall, but you can set this number to an extend (I believe?) in advanced worldgen.

[ral]

I just genned a small world and the default in advanced worldgen parameters was only 80. IIRC I think the number for a large world is something like maybe 200.

I always jack this number up, but I don't jack it up too high because of the historical event explosion it causes.