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[Xotano]

what all do they break that can actually hold up other blocks, i got a great idea for a trap for them but the thing they'd be breaking would have to hold up a block as so when it is broken the block falls on top of the building destroyer and crushes it to death.

[ThatAussieGuy]

building destroyers won't destroy supports, but supports CAN be destroyed by things like fire if they're susceptible to them.  You'd probably be better off just rigging the supports to dwarf-controlled levers and going Whack-a-Beast on them though.

[Xotano]

so supports are the only constructable that holds things up besides walls?

[ThatAussieGuy]

That's correct

[Xotano]

ah too bad, i was thinking of a statue like thing supporting nine spaces of blocks so when kicked over the blocks fall on the heads of the breaker, i guess you could just build a statue garden surrounded by supports surrounded by pressure plates with blocks build on top of em.

[ThatAussieGuy]

That could work.  Just have the support suspend the block from above it so it can drop down onto the pressure plate.  THAT should do some damage.  If you use a built wall instead of carving out one, it might even leave the pressure plate intact...

[Xotano]

yea kinda like an I shape where the bottom is pressure plates and the top is walls wile the middle is the support tho really i guess it'd be more like a small box thing as it would be in 2 Z levels

I=support
_= pressure plate
B=block

BBB
_I_

like that

but you'd need like 4 or 8 of them around a single statue to crush the building destroyers or i guess you could checkerboard those and statues to make a larger area of them

and they might be annoying to make too

[Tharwen]

You could just put a load of lava behind a door and wait for them to release it.

[Mister Always]

Alternatively, quit bein' a pussy and send your dwarves after it.

God.

[Xotano]

traps are good for when you have no equipment to really protect your dwarfs so that they may fight without dieing far too often, think before posting Mister Always.

[Boost One]

Alternatively, quit bein' a pussy and send your dwarves after it.

God.

... You mean, avoid making convoluted traps as likely to kill the builders as they are bad guys and do something intelligent?

For shame. For shame. I'm demoting you from dorf to naked mole rat.   

[Xotano]

Alternatively, quit bein' a pussy and send your dwarves after it.

God.

... You mean, avoid making convoluted traps as likely to kill the builders as they are bad guys and do something intelligent?

For shame. For shame. I'm demoting you from dorf to naked mole rat.   

dont you mean tree hugging elf?

[Boost One]

I think Elf is somewhere below even the mole rat.

[Xotano]

yea it is, elf is the lowest of the low, i'd say its rock bottom but elfs don't like the inside of the earth.

[Vehudur]

A door with lots of lava behind it.  Forbid it so your dwarves don't open it.