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:Yes, but they can be effectively rendered incapable of fighting. I had some experiments with colossi in arena and while they may seem invincible, after some while they turn into torso incapable of any retaliation. Though I suppose they would still scare dwarves, it will give you time to pour some nice, hot magma upon him--[[User:SanDiego|SanDiego]] 12:46, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:Yes, but they can be effectively rendered incapable of fighting. I had some experiments with colossi in arena and while they may seem invincible, after some while they turn into torso incapable of any retaliation. Though I suppose they would still scare dwarves, it will give you time to pour some nice, hot magma upon him--[[User:SanDiego|SanDiego]] 12:46, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 
::Must be quite a while, or require adamantine weapons.  Legendary axemen with iron axes can beat him for years without accomplishing that. [[User:Rodya mirov|Rodya mirov]]
 
::Must be quite a while, or require adamantine weapons.  Legendary axemen with iron axes can beat him for years without accomplishing that. [[User:Rodya mirov|Rodya mirov]]
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:::As of 31.10 they can be killed by steel two-handed swords in arena mode. --[[User:That Guy|That Guy]] 11:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
  
 
==Wrestlers==
 
==Wrestlers==

Revision as of 11:00, 14 July 2010

Heavy Defense

Seems these guys have gotten an added problem in 2010. No amount of physical trauma will outright kill it! In the free arena, I've placed two in there to fight each other, and after hours of pummeling each other, one is all red (except for severed hands and feet and nose), but refuses to die. Dragonfire does the trick, though.--Aescula 20:06, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, but they can be effectively rendered incapable of fighting. I had some experiments with colossi in arena and while they may seem invincible, after some while they turn into torso incapable of any retaliation. Though I suppose they would still scare dwarves, it will give you time to pour some nice, hot magma upon him--SanDiego 12:46, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Must be quite a while, or require adamantine weapons. Legendary axemen with iron axes can beat him for years without accomplishing that. Rodya mirov
As of 31.10 they can be killed by steel two-handed swords in arena mode. --That Guy 11:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Wrestlers

There's an interesting mechanic (bug? exploit?) involving wrestlers. I had a legendary wrestler who got attacked by one of these. They fought for months, and in fact are still fighting. The colossus seems to have lost the ability to fight - looking back over the logs for the past several months, nothing has happened - and though every part of my wrestler has been destroyed, he is unconscious and bleeding heavily, neither will die. Further, when I attacked it with my other (20 dwarf) force, the colossus didn't fight back.

That said, it still won't die, but it's incapacitated and is now some kind of frightening punching bag. I've gotten three dwarfs from "expert" to "axelord" so far. Not sure how to put this information in the wiki but it belongs here somewhere. Rodya mirov

Looks like that. Migrant fisherdwarf got into fight with colossus and was lucky to survive long enough to become legendary wresler. Now battle report reads that colossus strangles dwarf's throat repeatedly, and they are standing there for 10 days. Peregarrett 11:03, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Adventure quest : Kill Bronze Colossus

I need help. I got a mission to Kill a bronze Colossus but my dwarf can't kill it. I can't even run away! My dwarf already got from skilled to legendary in using the axe. Any suggestions? --Natti 19:46, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

There is a report that a max stat high legendary thrower can throw things of non-trivial mass with sufficient force to knock the head of a BC off. This is linked in the article, though others have had difficulty in reproducing it. --PencilinHand 17:42, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Workaround

Given the essentially unkillable nature of the things, can someone write up a workaround for either eliminating the possibility one spawns, or getting rid of one in game? My fortress is pretty much shut down, with soldiers pounding endlessly away on the colossus (basically a torso, now), and the other dwarves all running around in terror.

I guess, a cave-in would work. Dig a large cavern several floors high under place where he stays then dig channels aroung him - far enough for dwarves won't be scared and can do their jobs. You'll have to find out the distance experimentally. With last square channeled you'll get nice deep pit with a colossus at the centre. Call it Colloseum =) Peregarrett 11:03, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Yuck, that's pretty dubious with loads of 'maybes'. No way to edit a file or something?

You can delete the [CREATURE:COLOSSUS_BRONZE] from the raw files, it's in creature_standard.txt. But you'll get random titans made of random materials anyway, they cannot be removed unless turn invaders off. --TomiTapio 18:12, 6 July 2010 (UTC)


Of course you could just trap it in a cage trap. That fixed it for me. Twice.

I can build cage traps well enough, but it seems if I try to go near the thing, the dwarf gets afraid...do I just try to set up traps everywhere and hope that one dwarf will get the courage to build it eventually, then hope that it blunders into it?