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[NRDL]

I'm sure a lot of people know about this challenge, made famous by the epic tale, "One Dwarf against the World".  I was thinking of trying this, but I need help from other, much more experienced DFers.  For one thing, how do I kill off the six other dwarves, while sparing my favored dwarf?  Any other tips?  For defense, food, etc? 

[Girlinhat]

Runesmith helps for killing.  I tried this myself, and always suffered insanity from loss of friends, and a lot of trouble actually trying to kill them off at all, without killing the desired one.  With Runesmith, you can hack it and just say "ok, you now have trouble breathing" and be done with it.  Otherwise, you're always running a risk trying to get "just enough death".  Alternatively, with some effort, upright spikes can work well.

[Dynastia]

Dig out a tiny hobbithole and burrow your unlucky six in it. Have Urist build a floor over the down-stairs.

[EggFibre]

Do what they did in 'One Dwarf againts the World'. Send the other six plant gathering way too close to undead elephants. Alternitively, make them military and send them naked againts a crazily powerful enemy.

[Girlinhat]

Do what they did in 'One Dwarf againts the World'. Send the other six plant gathering way too close to undead elephants. Alternitively, make them military and send them naked againts a crazily powerful enemy.

Giant Badger.

[Triaxx2]

Goblin bowmen will do the trick without problem.... Even in full adamantine armor.

[Girlinhat]

If you're facing goblin bowmen, then all 7 are dead.

[moki]

I tried it once in 28..40d (though not very successfully)... I just chose the most psychologically stable dwarf (heh, nice oxymoron ) to survive, let the others wall themselves in with some food over a brook. This way, they didn't die all at once but went mad one after the other. I think, having them not die all at once helped a little with keeping the survivor sane. There was the occasional tantrum, but no serious problems.

[FluidDynamite]

Construct six of these things:


z = 0

Code: [Select]

...u.

z = +1

Code: [Select]

.._d.

_ is a floor, u is a upstairs and d is a downstairs.

Give the dwarf you want to keep any job, then designate all six upstairs to be removed. Since dwarves will always stand to the left of a deconstruction job when possible, the floor tile will cave in and atomsmash the dwarves when the upstairs is removed. Gets rid of their rotting corpses and annoying clothing too, clean and effective. And it involves cave ins!

[ThatAussieGuy]

Dig out a little home in the mountain with one bed, farm plot, etc and seal him in with the wagon's contents.  He can keep digging and expanding for anything he needs (say, breaching a cavern to get treefarms going) and any migrants that turn up are stuck twiddling their thumbs outside on the surface.

[Komra]

I'd go for a simpler method. The Urist is the only miner, as usual, so you can just have him/her staart their work while the others stand 'guard'. First time anything comes by, send them to their deaths one by one.