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[cancel.man]

I don't think they want to play.

It's a sign from Armok: Drain the lake. Turn it to obsidian. Kill them all.

[SpiralDimentia]

So I droped a cube of ceiling on one. He vanished. He's not in my units screen, alive or dead, he's not in the lake anymore. It's like the falling rock blinked him out of existance.

[blue emu]

So I droped a cube of ceiling on one. He vanished. He's not in my units screen, alive or dead, he's not in the lake anymore. It's like the falling rock blinked him out of existance.

Right. It's called the "Dwarven Atom Smasher". It totally disintegrates them. Problem solved.

[SpiralDimentia]

but when ceilings fall on my dwarves, they leave blood and parts and their stuff. >.>

[blue emu]

but when ceilings fall on my dwarves, they leave blood and parts and their stuff. >.>

Can do... can do... or not.

[SpiralDimentia]

what?


Edit: Okay, the tick left a corpse. but Iceman didn't. why?

[blue emu]

what?

Precisely.

Edit: Okay, the tick left a corpse. but Iceman didn't. why?

If the iceman wasn't made out of conventional materials (flesh, bone, blood), he wouldn't leave those behind when he died. He would leave a useless inorganic item instead... which probably got crushed out of existence under the Atom Smasher.

[SpiralDimentia]

Then shouldn't the tick had been atom smashed too?

[blue emu]

Then shouldn't the tick had been atom smashed too?

The tick was probably flesh and blood, so it left a corpse.  If the cave-in dust blew it out from under the falling block, the corpse wouldn't be vaporized. The iceman probably left a chunk of ice as a corpse... which immediately melted. Or maybe the cave-in dust didn't move it, and it ended up crushed to atoms.

Why worry? You wanted them gone... and they're gone.

EDIT: did you use the double-room method that I outlined, to prevent any flying monsters from using the hole in the ceiling to enter your fort?

[SpiralDimentia]

Then shouldn't the tick had been atom smashed too?

The tick was probably flesh and blood, so it left a corpse.  If the cave-in dust blew it out from under the falling block, the corpse wouldn't be vaporized. The iceman probably left a chunk of ice as a corpse... which immediately melted. Or maybe the cave-in dust didn't move it, and it ended up crushed to atoms.

Why worry? You wanted them gone... and they're gone.

EDIT: did you use the double-room method that I outlined, to prevent any flying monsters from using the hole in the ceiling to enter your fort?

True. And no, I just dug to above them, and channeled out a square. After that I just patched up the holes. No flying things about so I wans't too worried.

[blue emu]

If the Tick had a nasty Syndrome ("Beware it's eyeball melting goo!"), you should probably use 'd' - 'o' - 'r ' +++ to lay down a VERY BIG "Restricted" traffic pattern around it, so your Dwarves don't step in the splashed goo.

[SpiralDimentia]

he was under water. No goo. And he has poisonous excretions. he stopped making clouds when I killed him though.