v0.31 Talk:Bronze colossus

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 collosi 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

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 repeately, and they are standing there for 10 days. 80.84.116.220 10:53, 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)