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deanec64

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created a pit for my goblins, now how do I pit them
« on: August 07, 2011, 10:18:14 am »
created a pit as suggested in

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Mass_pitting

now call me a noob BUT how do I pit them all at once?

thanks for your time and hope I can get this working (I want to see the goblin thieves go SPLAT) ;-)
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Re: created a pit for my goblins, now how do I pit them
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2011, 11:55:39 am »
First make sure you have hatches over the holes. Otherwise you can have Fun.

Then, designate a pit zone over the entire stockpile (make sure there is a hole reachable by every cage).

Create a zone (I), designate it a pit (p), use (P) to select what you want to dump.
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Re: created a pit for my goblins, now how do I pit them
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2011, 12:30:43 pm »
got it thanks. though how many levels do I need to make goblins go splat? have 10 and guy survived
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Re: created a pit for my goblins, now how do I pit them
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2011, 03:47:50 pm »
My current fort has a dodge-fall trap in the main entrance, 13Z drop, and they not only die, they explode. 10Z is just about enough to cripple gobbos so you can feed them to your military to gain notable kills.
Personally, my animal pit(for the stuff that wanders into my cage traps) is only a 1Z drop, and I just fill it with weapon traps loaded with Spiked Wooden Balls and blunt weapons liberated from dead invaders. This way there's only ever 1 body part to butcher, and I can get extra teeth if I'm lucky.
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Re: created a pit for my goblins, now how do I pit them
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2011, 03:55:01 pm »
Or just put some upright spear traps at the bottom. Or magma. Or magma, then water. Preferably a combination of all these.
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Re: created a pit for my goblins, now how do I pit them
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2011, 03:58:54 pm »
so a 16 drop should make them go ker-SPLAT? I can't make it go any deeper since cave entrance is 1 more down ;-)
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Re: created a pit for my goblins, now how do I pit them
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2011, 04:01:39 pm »
Yeah, for pitting captured invaders, spears would work, as long as you remove any and all armor before pitting, unless you feel like investing in a bunch of steel spears, a deeper fall without traps is cheaper.

Magma doesn't leave butcherable bodies, and water leaves mud everywere, but these are just personal preference more than anything. (and yes, my dorfs will eat anything that is organic and not dwarven. ANYTHING.)
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Re: created a pit for my goblins, now how do I pit them
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2011, 04:29:30 pm »
fyi 42 population and got a few theives. so next time an invasion comes along I'll trap and let them fall my 15/16 z level pit ;-)
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Re: created a pit for my goblins, now how do I pit them
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2011, 09:24:17 am »
Quote from: deanec64 on August 07, 2011, 03:58:54 pm
so a 16 drop should make them go ker-SPLAT? I can't make it go any deeper since cave entrance is 1 more down ;-)

From my own experience free-falling goblins achieve terminal velocity at about 12-z levels. I once built a 12-z execution tower, and channeled the bottom of it through all three caverns. I think the final drop was around 60-z levels. Sadly the resulting goblin-explosion wasn't any bigger than the initial 12-z drops, so no goblin heads flying half a screen or any fun stuff like that.
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