"Atomic Dwarf Smasher"
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:02 pm
There's a game called dwarf fortress, where you employ dwarves. Most people that play it have something wrong with their brains. Here's a clipping of an entertaining solution to a problem a dwarf fortress player had, for handling immigration issues. Enjoy.
-Isaac
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.ph ... msg1216862
-Isaac
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.ph ... msg1216862
Particleman wrote: So I have all the dwarves I really want (~50ish, more and I start running out of things for them to do,) and I recently got a wave of about 20 migrants, so I decided to come up with a way to make them kill themselves, automatically. And after some experimentation I came up with this.
Restrict all the dwarves you want to keep from using the lever and hook up the pressure plate to the drawbridge. Then, just queue up a single pull of the bait lever, and watch them march to thier deaths, one at a time. The size of the bridge allows for some variance due to the fact that dwarves walk at different speeds.
Let's watch.
A useless freeloader dwarf approaches...
Stepping on the pressure plate causes the bridge to rise. Since the door to the northwest is locked, this is the only way to reach the lever.
Run, Obok! You can make it!
Er... maybe not.
The biggest downside is that once all the dwarves you've assigned to that lever have been smashed, the lever reverts to being usable by anyone, so you have to keep count of how many are left and make sure you cancel the pull order once the last one is gone, or else you could wind up smashing your legendary planters or something.
And I know this is hardly the first automatic dwarf killer, but it's the first one I designed and built myself.
