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Author Topic: Restraints stay connected after deconstruction  (Read 763 times)

Amir Alawi

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Restraints stay connected after deconstruction
« on: March 09, 2007, 01:39:00 pm »
Restraints will stay attached to a creature if a creature is attached to it after the restraint has been deconstructed.  It seems quite bizarre that dwarves wouldn't detach the creatures from the restraint before removing it from its anchor!  However, you can get the restraints back from butchering the animal.
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Gakidou

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Re: Restraints stay connected after deconstruction
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2007, 05:19:00 pm »
Interesting. Can you assign the free chained animal to another chain? Can the animal breed while it has chains attached? Maybe if you attach enough chains to your animals you could make them move slow enough that you don't need to chain them to keep them all in one room...
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AlanL

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Re: Restraints stay connected after deconstruction
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2007, 06:46:00 pm »
thats a lot of wasted metal.
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Gakidou

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Re: Restraints stay connected after deconstruction
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2007, 09:55:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by AlanL:
<STRONG>thats a lot of wasted metal.</STRONG>

You could always build it out of spider silk, although I suppose it weighs less...

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Toady One

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Re: Restraints stay connected after deconstruction
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2007, 06:20:00 pm »
We had a thread about this early.  It relates to how chain releasing traps was supposed to work (the chain remained on the animal after you pull the lever), but it uses the code in too many places, and you should be able to reclaim the chain in any case.
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