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[Naryar]

=Large serrated steel discs= pretty much own anything that is not TRAPAVOID with a good mechanism.

[SirAaronIII]

Serrated steel disks: why many people think traps are overpowered.

[Aramco]

Serrated steel disks: why many people think traps are overpowered.

Serrated steel discs: Why many people the the trade value on most items is ridiculous.

[SirAaronIII]

Serrated steel disks: why many people think traps are overpowered.

Serrated steel discs: Why many people the the trade value on most items is ridiculous.

I thought that was roasts.

[krenshala]

Serrated steel disks: why many people think traps are overpowered.

Serrated steel discs: Why many people the the trade value on most items is ridiculous.

I thought that was roasts.

The price on quality serrated steel disc roasts is pretty unbelievable, too.

[Aramco]

Serrated steel disks: why many people think traps are overpowered.

Serrated steel discs: Why many people the the trade value on most items is ridiculous.

I thought that was roasts.

The price on quality serrated steel disc roasts is pretty unbelievable, too.

Yessir, I do like me a good masterwork serrated steel disc roast, I tell you.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Need to make this happen. Aluminum roasts for everyone.

[Triaxx2]

Hygiene/Blood safety is easy. Just include a waterfall to knock down any blood, through floor grate, and then close up a hatch and floodgate so that the water floods out the entrance and washes out the rest of the blood. If you want to save the bits, close vertical bars to catch the bits. The blood still washes away.

[GreatWyrmGold]

My weapon traps usually have one rotating disc, one axe blade and one set of spiked balls each. I like to hedge my bets.

No, THREE of each. And a training spear for irony. If irony means "like iron," that statement is even more ironic!...in a human's sense of the word.
Also, this forum needs a better stealth color.

[Aramco]

Also, this forum needs a better stealth color.

I know the feeling, I do.

[Misterstone]

I realize that we can just jam 10 serrated blades into a single trap and destroy anything, but does anyone know if putting a silver spiked ball or something similar first might cause stunning, so that subsequent attacks will hit better?  Do the weapons hit in sequence like that?

[GuudeSpelur]

I enjoy putting the low-quality copper trap components my trainee weaponsmiths make along with low-quality mechanisms from my trainee mechanics make in my weapon traps.  That way, when the enemies dodge/are knocked to the side by the trap, they fall down the ~7z pit onto the masterwork steel spikes my master weaponsmiths make.

Fun fact: "impalement on spikes" is an event that ends up in engravings!

[synkell]

Fun fact: "impalement on spikes" is an event that ends up in engravings!

One thing that i always strife for in all my fortresses.

[Something Evil]

Also, this forum needs a better stealth color.

I know the feeling, I do.

You can use the [color] tag and add hex values instead of the default red, green etc.


On topic: spiked balls are pretty much maces. Low penetration; a wooden one will cause bruising, or a broken bone at best. Serrated disks all the way. 3 attacks mean that if one attack is blocked by armor, misses or is dodged, there's still 2 more. Also, cleaning bits of goblin off the roof 3 z-levels higher is fun.

[Alastar]

I'm not a fan of Giant Axe Blades. They only thing they have on disks is size, not enough to compensate for 1 attack instead of 3. Because instant kills have a chance of getting traps stuck, fewer but bigger hits are even less attractive.
Serrated disks are excellent. Made of steel, they are very messy and very lethal... good at getting the job done but maintenance-heavy. Made of glass, which is light and frail but very sharp, they just slice up any unprotected part of the victim. This often proves just as lethal in time, and creates far less maintenance and hauling jobs.

Menacing Spikes are the traditional method for delayed kills, via impaled organs. Thanks to their small contact area, most material will be enough to defeat goblin-level armour.
Spiked Balls deliver multiple pricks (not blunt hits!) that are too shallow to perforate vitals and too pointy to cause much bleeding/severing. Most reliable at softening victims up even through armour, but not lethal by itself.
Giant Corkscrews aren't quite as good at dismemberment as Giant Axe Blades, but even better at delivering immediately fatal wounds through armour. Exepect them to jam a lot.