#DWARF FORTRESS BRIDGE PIT TRAP HOW TO#
#DWARF FORTRESS BRIDGE PIT TRAP INSTALL#

Directly next to the fortifications I had a channel dug out.

I had a gallery to train my marksdwarves with live targets. Kitfox Discord #modding-discussion channelīronzemurder and Oilfurnace (illustrated)

#DWARF FORTRESS BRIDGE PIT TRAP INSTALL#

A three step guide:ĭownload DF Classic or install the premium version from Steam or Itch.ioįollow the quickstart guide on the wiki, or see other learning resources (below)Īsk any questions in the ☼Bi-weekly DF Questions Thread☼ - it's always active See the reasons for our rules here, and please report any problems!ĭF can be intimidating, but we're dedicated to helping new players. You can still capture fleeing soldiers, you can still counter-attack to prevent caught soldiers from being freed, you can cover your flanks with cage traps, but you can't use just cage traps alone to stop advancing army in it's tracks.Want to start playing? Read this sidebar! It makes cage trap very effective against animals and single units, while limiting their efficiency against a siege. If there are no one around to help, creature should stay caged. It gives player a possibility to make good designs that use every item in the best possible way, or make smart designs to use item where it should not be used by figuring out creative ways to negate it's huge downsides.Ĭage quality and material should affect the time it takes for friends to release a comrade who got himself caught in a cage. Making some items excel in one scenario and suck in other (where different item shines) is a better way. Like I said in the other comment, I think using RNG and balancing different items in the same way (quality->chance to succeed) should be avoided where possible. But hardy trolls and mounts and a large siege? That gets much more expensive to set up and maintain.Īnd all that stuff? It's a little moot because weaponized mine carts are even more OP than weapon traps. This will scale nicely with the 'difficulty' of antagonists.

(Dwarf power, attention, dedicated jobs). Instead of do all that pathing/burrowing stuff and then infinite defense, it becomes do all that pathing burrowing stuff and then scale up defense that requires significant additional resources which are somewhat scarce. Um, once that understanding is learned/developed, weapon trap defense scales really really really well.Īdding some sort of maintenance/one shot mechanic neatly addresses this.

#DWARF FORTRESS BRIDGE PIT TRAP HOW TO#

(There is a bit of learning curve involved in how to secure a fort with traps, like pathing, burrows, chokes, Depot airlocks, picket animals, etc.). Once a fort has a reasonable metal industry defense via weapon traps is more or less dead easy game over no more invader issues whatsoever. Body parts and the bad thoughts associated with them. Now, weapon traps do have a big downside. It's also a good use for artefact weapons that your dwarves might make, that no one in the fortress has any interest in learning to use. There are some interesting composite traps that rely on the enemy dodging rather than being hit, but they're beyond my point here.Īnd by the time you're making 'fields' of traps, your mechanism makers will be turning out high quality ones. Sometimes when you take dodging into account enemies have to face individual weapon traps multiple times as they dodge one, move to another, which then triggers, forcing another dodge, and so on. Weapon traps at least have a chance to severely mess up all 100 goblins. Attacked by a hundred goblins and only have 50 cage traps on the entrance? At least 50 will get through (unless the entrance is consistently one wide). So cage traps are much easier to overwhelm with numbers. Weapon traps just keep on triggering until they jam. Kitfox Discord #modding-discussion channelīronzemurder and Oilfurnace (illustrated)Ĭage traps are disabled by catching someone. Want to start playing? Read this sidebar!

Dwarf fortress bridge pit trap