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[EveryZig]

In the general discussion thread, someone said that danger rooms are for filthy elves, and that got me wondering:
Can you literally use a danger room for an elf? Capture a merchant, lock them in a danger room (or chain them to a post with danger room spikes all around it) until they are both insane and legendary, then unleash them on whoever comes to your fort next?

[Corneria]

Yes.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

But...

Elves do die of thirst/hunger, and none of your dwarves are going to bring any food for them.  So you don't have a lot of time to train them up.

[Girlinhat]

Merchants that go insane will starve, so yeah.

Goblins work, though.

EDIT: If you're at war with elves, their captured soldiers can be danger-room'd and level up.

[Lagslayer]

1. Capture an entire goblin siege in a big danger room
2. Survivors become legendary. Add new goblins as they arrive.
3. Route something crazy like a candy fb with fire breath into the room.

[Girlinhat]

Actually, I would pit them against my soldiers.  Nothing trains you better than a scarred and grizzled greenskin who's spent 10 years in a pit with slow wooden impalement.

[elf-fondling human]

Actually, I would pit them against my soldiers.  Nothing trains you better than a scarred and grizzled greenskin who's spent 10 years in a pit with slow wooden impalement.

What about two scarred and grizzled greenskins?

[ThatAussieGuy]

"This sieging group of elvish warriors is weak and pathetic.  I know!  I'll train them into a serious threat to my fortress! Into the danger room with you all!  Yes, the eagles too!  And don't come out till the militia's utterly terrified at the mere sight of your soldiers!

[NRDL]

Wouldn't these super-gobbs, even unarmed, hurt your recruits? 

[Boost One]

Elves spending a year locked in a wooden room, with no food or sleep, constantly being poked with wooden spikes?

*Dries eye* It's really too beautiful for words...

[Deimos56]

Elves spending a year locked in a wooden room, with no food or sleep, constantly being poked with wooden spikes?

*Dries eye* It's really too beautiful for words...

Well, if the elves eat things you toss down and unforbid, maybe more than no food...

...We can always feed them plants. And live fluffy wamblers.

[Mister Always]

Elves spending a year locked in a wooden room, with no food or sleep, constantly being poked with wooden spikes?

*Dries eye* It's really too beautiful for words...

Well, if the elves eat things you toss down and unforbid, maybe more than no food...

...We can always feed them plants. And live fluffy wamblers.

I don't think they'd actually eat plants. Ethics, etc. Also, pretty sure they don't eat corpses outside of worldgen, so no luck there.

Just dump a fucktonne of roasts and buckets of water in there, see if it works. At the worst, you'll lose some food.

[EveryZig]

Into the danger room with you all!  Yes, the eagles too!

A chilling thought: a danger room trained band of honey badgers.

[Mister Always]

Into the danger room with you all!  Yes, the eagles too!

A chilling thought: a danger room trained band of honey badgers.

All that would really happen if you threw a honey badger into a danger room would be that it gets poked. A lot.

Unless you mod in [CAN_LEARN], in which case OH SHIT

Do it with a giant badger.

OH SHIT DOUBLE X2 COMBO

[silverskull39]

Someone should capture gobbos, danger room some and not others, then release them at the edge of the map and get them to flee. Then set the fort up to be sustainable and let it run for as long as you can. Do a few more forts like that. Then track down the names of the gobbos you set up in legends mode and see if the danger roomed ones did more notable stuff than the others.