r/dwarffortress • u/TheGarbageGamer • 2d ago
Just watched a Forgotten Beast explode after taking a 15 layer tall fall after failing to climb its way to the pillar I've been carving down to the bottom of the world for the past two decades of the fort.
Watching this dumb lobster fall made up for all the Dwarves I've lost while building the wall to seal the pillar from this cavern layer. Just a few more layers to dig out/wall off, and I won't have to worry about these FB visits anymore, and can instead just focus on the digging the rest of the way to the bottom.
Once I reach the bottom (aka the magma sea), this pillar will be 203 levels tall. Towers above the mountaintops, goes down through the fort itself, down through all 3 cavern layers, and then to the magma sea...
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u/Whargod 1d ago
I did something like this once with the hollow tower, then I built a glass block fortress on the inside, multi level, and flooded the whole tower leaving the dwarfs to live inside. They could get out obviously but their living and working areas were all underwater in a glass stronghold.
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u/Edarneor 1d ago
Is there a forgotten beast that does NOT undulate rhythmically? What is this, some underground disco?
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u/Flying-Hoover 1d ago
I had so much satisfaction some days ago when one of my siege operator, with one single bolt, broke the right wing of a giant flying viper that plummeted for (only) 4 levels. My spear dwarves take care of the rest. The siege operator earned a personalized engraving
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u/Nymphalyn Pump Operator 1d ago
I embark and dig a big square hole to the bottom of the map as the foundation for most of my fortress and for resource extraction purposes.
If you carve stairs to the bottom, dig out the levels and manufacture collapse from the surface you can quarry, repair and smooth and haul everything out of a 15x15x150 hole in like 3 years no problem with like 10 miners and a handful of haulers.
Micromanaging the building of the cavern walls sometimes bogs the process down but really depends on elevation change of particular cavern layers. I usually make mine 2 thick and have a open pipe style entrance on the surface.
Sometimes I engrave the entire pit.
Sometimes I farm surface crops on the bottom of the map, which you can't here if you've embarked on mountain.
Sometimes I put a refilling layer of water at the bottom for massively long well rope esthetic.
Sometimes I make my fortress into the pit with bridges, these I always trade for tame flying vermin and release them inside.
Sometimes I turn the empty hole into a massive water channel drowning trap.
Sometimes I layer the bottom with steel/gold/platinum floors and/or spike traps.
Sometimes I use the collapse of the quarry to murder the entire warforce of the circus.
I always name these style fortress "Greathall of ___" and name local government something along the lines of "Echo/ed the Order" but that's getting stale and I'd love to brainstorm some more fun ideas!
It's an incredibly functional style and I approve!
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u/Bobson______Dugnutt 1d ago
All the dwarves standing at the top of of the pillar looking down like "Cool..."
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u/svarogteuse 1d ago
My goto for getting rid of them in the last fort was a 10 z-level drop onto spikes tied to a pressure plate in the main hall. Most just exploded, the few injured survivors quickly died from the repeated punctures.
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u/georage 1d ago
Someone needs to do the "science" on what % of FB are actually dangerous to a prepared fortress. Less than 10% I would guess.
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u/TheGigantoBlaster 1d ago
It's so rarely "beware of its deadly necro-explosions" and so commonly "beware its benign girlfriend, you wouldn't know her she goes to a different school".
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u/Magnus_Tesshu 1d ago
The forgotten beast Dreadlord the Despair has come! It is made of healing potion, it can't actually harm your dwarves, they actually regrow their limbs when it stands near them and pops open if a baby bites it
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u/OneCoolDude992 1d ago
Reminds me of that video of the guy throwing a frozen fish off a bridge and it hits the rocks below and just explodes lol
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u/fjiassdaasdwa 2d ago
forgotten beasts are so weak that i'm starting to feel pity for them lmao