Hello again all.
Question time. I'm having little issue now slaughtering most sieges and keeping my dwarves alive, except when the enemy uses whips, but thats a different story. Now comes my dilemma. Cleaning up after a siege. The body parts, the socks, the items. They are spread everywhere. Well not everywhere, but all along my entrance corridor. This got me thinking about a cleanage system and item gathering .. just wondering if anyone has done some thing like this before / if it would work. Space is limited where I want to install it, so !!Science!! is last resort currently.
Basic Idea
z0
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B H w
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z-1
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# B
--D---
B= bridge
H = Hatch
- = wall
# = grate
w = water hatch from the ceiling
Basic idea is that I would close of the entrance with a bridge at both ends. Then open a hatch at the end of the corridor closest to 'main' fort, washing the water down towards the hatch at the 'gate'. Both hatches linked to open together. This would then hopefully wash everything down into the next zlvl, where I have a 3x1 square area, Bridge -> 1 empty, another a grate. The grate linked to drain all the water out safely somewhere (ie edge of map).
Questions:
Would this flush all the items down into the lower zlvl?
Would the bridge (which is there to atomsmash the stuff I don't want, without hauling it) destroy the grate or not?