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[Exlo]

My ultimate set-up for F.B. removal is a five chamber gauntlet, each containing a door, and two armor stands placed so the beastie stays still near the middle of the room.  The ceiling above each room is wired to collapse.  Below each chamber is an empty room, unconnected to the rest of the map (constructions help) and sealed, just in case you don't land the cave-in shot. If the cave-in fails, suction drags F.B. into the pit, where you can try another cave-in (if the trip down didn't kill them first). Gauntlet seals with a bridge, just in case you run out of cave-ins but not F.Bs

Totally scrap the whole thing if you catch a giant cave spider though

The only thing that usually separates my fortress and the horrors from below are a 1 tile thick wall, to insure that we get to have at least some !!FUN!! from sources other than goblins and elves.

But a good old fashioned beast grinding gauntlet is its own fun!

[Hammerstar]

An unspeakable beast from before time walks into the dining room, and what do the dwarves think?  They think, "Hey!  Lunch!"

Just had to grab that for the sig.

[IT 000]

Started an underground cavern fort Basically I built a human town in the caverns. Within the second year a forgotten beast appeared, it was a snake composed of flame.

Ah hah! I thought, flame is easy to kill! So I set off my military.

Kiddies, one thing to remember is that underground fungi burns, quite rapidly. My entire fortress died.

[Scaraban]

>.>
<.<
Watching...

[Zaibusa]

I once had a great fort, more than 160 dwarfs, a military of 2 Legendary Squads (1 Axe, 1 Hammer) and one in training using Crossbows.
It got attacked by Goblins quite regulary, but i only ever lost like 1 Dwarf when attacked by 40 Goblins, 15 Trolls and a bunch of mounts. So they were really, really powerful.
Then, one fatal day, a flying megabeast which spread poisonous fumes arrived. My underground Forge wasn't completly walled off yet, so it just flew over the walls. I didn't have time to do anything special. My only option was to immediatly send my Squads, else it would be in the living quarters in no time.
The first squad engaged it in the magma forge in the 3rd cavern, stopping it from proceeding into the fort, but they got killed one after the other. The 2nd and third Squad arrived shortly afterwards, but the axe squad was almost annihilated.
But together they managed to slay it, after i lost about 10 soldiers and a bunch of civilians who happened to be nearby.

Then I realised, that every single one of my soldiers, who was close enough to the beast began to rot. Their limbs, organs, every part of them rotted! By the time they were brought to the hospital all of them had become blind.
Of my 30 Soldiers in the military, only about 18 survived the beast, of which 4 were not rotting!

My hospital was of course not equipped to host 30+ (soldiers + civilians) dwarfs.

But it wouldn't be fun if it weren't for the (really huge) goblin invasion, led by a deer fiend which came a few days after the beast had been killed. I was able to mobilize almost 10 soldiers, most of them were blind, to engage the enemy. They almost defeated the invasion, but I don't think the deer fiend was even scratched. It killed my whole fort

[Oliolli]

Having a forgotten beast, Cetutha dying for no reason would be the "most insane forgotten beast incident" I have had. I generally keep my caverns sealed away.

One moment Cetutha was stalking in the 1st cavern layer, the next it had "died of the heat". No indication how or why.

No body has been found, as the caverns are sealed off.

The best answer to "how?" I have managed to find out is that another FB, one made out of flame, burnt it to death. Or Cetuthas breath-attack of fire grilled itself.

No mourners in the fortress.

[Aramco]

Kiddies, one thing to remember is that underground fungi burns, quite rapidly. My entire fortress died.

I'll just go ahead and take this for my signature.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Granite quadraped with a dust attack that caused lung rot tore into my cavern dwelling fortress. Many died, some hid behind a forbidden, locked artifact door, safely inside.  Then a moody dwarf walked through it, into the cavern, and others pathed through it, and dropped glass bricks in the doorway, and it ate them all. the end.

...Doors can eat dwarves now?

Actually, it was mostly tallow. Not sure if there was any meat at all.

And, of course, it's called "forgotten beast foodstuff"...

...I never even got a human diplomat.

I...I really don't blame him.

feathered wtfbeast

No, that's "feathered wildebeest."

In one of my first forts while i was paranoid about caves i trapped iron humanoid with poisonous gas and 2 other forgotten beasts (between bridges in channeled hole). Fleshy beasts were happily rotting from gas for years until i had magma flooding accident. It burned bridges bounding  forgotten beasts, fleshy ones burned and iron thing just stayed in channeled hole in magma not trying to get out.

How is this an "accident?"


Sadly (?) I have never had an interesting FB incident.

[tree-puncher423]

A huge bee titan attacked! And what do my military do? They go to a party... A doctor went out there and hit it with a crouch and he won a few months later I get a breakout of some type of plague that drives them insane and sprouts miasma everywhere I put em in my magma chamber to "cure" them!!!

[Exlo]

A huge bee titan attacked! And what do my military do? They go to a party... A doctor went out there and hit it with a crouch and he won a few months later I get a breakout of some type of plague that drives them insane and sprouts miasma everywhere I put em in my magma chamber to "cure" them!!!

Exclamation points!!!

It's funny, I've never even heard of a bee titan. How comical.

[MonkeyHead]

An armadillo with fire breath and syndrome blood. Killed by 2 legendary speardwarves that both were scorched and blood syndromed. Both lost thier eyes to explosive rot instantly, followed by all tissue above bone level becoming infected and rotten due to burns and syndrome. both were rushed to the hospital while thier rotting flesh left miasma clouds behind them, where my quite frankly cack medical team astounded me by removing all the rot, dressing thier bodies, and sending them on thier merry way. 2 legendary speardwarves with pretty much no skin and 100% scar tissue, held together by alpaca cloth with no eyes. both later got clowned (they never saw it coming...)

[V12US]

Tinkering with the layout at upper layers of my fort, I suddenly get a message that a Forgotten Beast has appeared in my caverns, so I go down there to investigate and... oh my, wasn't there a lake down here?

Turns out the forgotten beast (some kind of turtle made of fire) had evaporated all the water in the caverns, just by walking into it. Now it was sitting at the bottom of what used to be a lake. Since it was the first forgotten beast I encountered when I also had a competent military, I eagerly sent in some axedwarves and sat back to enjoy the show.

Combatwise, the fireturtle was pathetic. The first axedwarf to come within range of it chopped it's head off in one clean sweep. Unfortunately, its death caused a massive fireball explosion of sorts, burning the three nearest dwarves to a crisp and severely wounding the five coming in behind them. As the five burning dwarves crawled screaming to the edge of the pit (I assume they were screaming, they left behind horrific trails of blood), water rushes back into the lake, drowning them.

Morals of this story:
- Fire hurts, man!
- Never pet a burning beast
- Don't fight animals made of fire on the bottom of a lake

[Yoink]

Oho wow this thread is awesome!!

But anyway. My current fort, slaughterrocks, is my longest-surviving fort yet, but it has sure had a very rocky life... We have had twenty-four forgotten beasts attack us, at current count.
I haven't really had a decent military at any time, I've just had a few heroes here and there, but we've always managed to deal with the beasts somehow, usually by strength of numbers.
Anyway, one time some horrible creature was seen wandering around the upper cavern layer.
I was ready to despatch my dwarves to deal with it... But it just sat there under a z-level or two of water.
Avuz Ebtig Godumavuz, an enormous dimetrodon with lidless eyes. Large mandibles. A gaunt appearance. Blocky, overlapping mauve taupe scales and DEADLY DUST!! In my freaking main water source!! Oh well, it didn't seem to be doing any harm, so I kinda forgot about it.
Then, a while later, another monster shows up, and goes to chill out with Avuz.
Now, that was just too much! I send my large, mostly inexperienced military down there to kill 'em!
...It was the most horrifying slaughter I've ever seen. The two beasts just burst out of the water as my dwarves reached the shore, spraying poisonous steam, and lunged at them... Actually they were like a team, the big quadreped made of amber, named Nagnod Swamholes the Deadly Eels, was tanking, getting stuck into my dwarves and tearing them apart toe-to-toe, while Avuz was sort of... Flying around the upper part of the cavern, propelled by his dust or something.
EVERYONE DIED. Luckily I saved before I sent 'em on that mission. One of the only times I savescummed.

Anyway, bla bla bla, part two. Those two beasts lived in my water source(Which became the source for my new well) for ages, feeding (I assume) on the two stupid dwarves who fell down while working on the well.
They even ignored another forgotten beast, who flew straight past them and up the well...
Then, a few years later, some clumsy dwarf drops a lump of stone or something down there, and wakes up Avuz who starts killing people.
Avuz died, but it cost me my only remaining decent warriors... Just my fort's luck!

[Oliolli]

Well, i suppose I've found out what happened to Cetutha, sort-of. I found a magma pipe estending to that cavern, but I have no idea WHY Cetutha fell in there.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Well, i suppose I've found out what happened to Cetutha, sort-of. I found a magma pipe estending to that cavern, but I have no idea WHY Cetutha fell in there.

S/he dodged a crundle's scratch.