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==Auto-Defense System: Grate Hall== | ==Auto-Defense System: Grate Hall== | ||
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This is a trap designed to be placed at a long, hallway-like entrance of your fort. It operates by use of a long series of floor grates suspended over a drop linked to a single pressure plate in the middle of the hall. Due to the inability of floor grates to be fixed to other floor grates, the system relies on on a few supporting pillars in the middle of the system. These pillars reduce the auto-capture efficiency of the system to 85% if they are built as wagon-friendly floors. You will also wish to link the system to a lever, meaning that every floor grate will require two mechanisms to operate. | This is a trap designed to be placed at a long, hallway-like entrance of your fort. It operates by use of a long series of floor grates suspended over a drop linked to a single pressure plate in the middle of the hall. Due to the inability of floor grates to be fixed to other floor grates, the system relies on on a few supporting pillars in the middle of the system. These pillars reduce the auto-capture efficiency of the system to 85% if they are built as wagon-friendly floors. You will also wish to link the system to a lever, meaning that every floor grate will require two mechanisms to operate. | ||
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[[File:Dwarf Fortress Grate hall.jpg]] | [[File:Dwarf Fortress Grate hall.jpg]] | ||
| + | ==Smiting Water Tower== | ||
| + | This is a trap that can be built in discrete units. Each unit requires a lot of labor and protects only a small area in a dramatic manner. A wall of these around the map sharing a single massive water reservoir makes a very effective siege defense, as each tower component can be linked to a lever and used to wipe out a single invading squad at a time. Note: This may count as a [[stupid dwarf trick]]. | ||
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| + | While a [[pressure plate]] in the center of this trap can trigger it and drown hidden ambushers, such an arrangement is subject to double-activation and failure. A [[lever]] is highly recommended. | ||
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| + | Using a cross-hair pattern of walls, invaders are herded through the trap. Inside the fortress, Urist McLeverpuller does his job. [[Floodgates]] on the ground close, [[hatch]]es on the ceiling open, and drowning ensues. When all enemies are dead, the lever is pulled again. The hatches close and the floodgates open, allowing a rush of water and bodies to spill out. | ||
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| + | [[File:dfwatertower2.jpg]] | ||
{{Military v0.31}} | {{Military v0.31}} | ||
Revision as of 19:32, 11 April 2010
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Auto-Defense System: Grate Hall
Note: you can accomplish all this with a bridge that retracts instead of swings to a direction.
This is a trap designed to be placed at a long, hallway-like entrance of your fort. It operates by use of a long series of floor grates suspended over a drop linked to a single pressure plate in the middle of the hall. Due to the inability of floor grates to be fixed to other floor grates, the system relies on on a few supporting pillars in the middle of the system. These pillars reduce the auto-capture efficiency of the system to 85% if they are built as wagon-friendly floors. You will also wish to link the system to a lever, meaning that every floor grate will require two mechanisms to operate.
A design for a bare-bones capture system is shown below. Variations on this may include a drowning pool full of cave crocodiles or a barracks full of friendly military personnel at the bottom, or perhaps a bottom much further down, connected by a door to your (giant cave spider silk sock) stockpile.
General Schematics
Smiting Water Tower
This is a trap that can be built in discrete units. Each unit requires a lot of labor and protects only a small area in a dramatic manner. A wall of these around the map sharing a single massive water reservoir makes a very effective siege defense, as each tower component can be linked to a lever and used to wipe out a single invading squad at a time. Note: This may count as a stupid dwarf trick.
While a pressure plate in the center of this trap can trigger it and drown hidden ambushers, such an arrangement is subject to double-activation and failure. A lever is highly recommended.
Using a cross-hair pattern of walls, invaders are herded through the trap. Inside the fortress, Urist McLeverpuller does his job. Floodgates on the ground close, hatches on the ceiling open, and drowning ensues. When all enemies are dead, the lever is pulled again. The hatches close and the floodgates open, allowing a rush of water and bodies to spill out.
