Forgotten Beast

[Fin]

Hello there,
I must fight vs. a flying forgotten snake Beast which spray massiv fire. I am really new to this game and of course i build no Traps etc. I only have 2 Squads Dwarfes but the were melt in 1 sek. together.
Is there a way to beat that thing? I play this Fortress around 10 hours and dont want to make a new one :/.

Thanks.

[Zukabazuka]

There are construction you can build that allow you too shoot arrows through but block the monster movement. Your best option would be locking the monster in the cave if it still is possible. Then build a kill corridor and try to have it take that way.

[Jerma Rat]

a flying forgotten beast suckssss

The best you could do is hide away and lock the caverns away until your military is built up OR you have a bunchh of monster slayers living in your fort.

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by Fin:

Hello there,
I must fight vs. a flying forgotten snake Beast which spray massiv fire. I am really new to this game and of course i build no Traps etc. I only have 2 Squads Dwarfes but the were melt in 1 sek. together.
Is there a way to beat that thing? I play this Fortress around 10 hours and dont want to make a new one :/.

Thanks.

Few things related to your issue, but not actual answer to your issue.

You could always revert to a previous season save. That way you don't lose the whole fort, and then you disable combat alltogether.

Originally posted by Fin:

I play this Fortress around 10 hours and dont want to make a new one :/.

If you really play with that mentality, I would suggest you simply go to the settings of your world / fort and you disable what you don't want to show up.

You do that by : Esc > settings > Difficulty > Ennemies OFF
Or in same place you can use custom settings and fiddle with what you want to be aggressive.

By playing around with those, you can always turn back some options so you can learn gradually while building up your fort.

I'm also new, and the "triggers" depending on population number seems very low to me, and very early in fort setup, specially since I can't decide when / if I want migrants,m and as opposed to many comments I see, I seem unable to avoid migrants, no matter what I do to have as less as I can.

[jeetrix]

Originally posted by BonPadre:

, I seem unable to avoid migrants, no matter what I do to have as less as I can.

Game options - population cap

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by jeetrix:

Originally posted by BonPadre:

, I seem unable to avoid migrants, no matter what I do to have as less as I can.

Game options - population cap

I finally resorted to that, indeed even isolated on an Island, no dwarves on said Island, at the other side of map than origin faction, and I can't stop them from comming.
Edit : and I trade as minimal as I can, so yeah I did my best to avoid it "naturally"

[jeetrix]

Originally posted by Fin:

Hello there,
I must fight vs. a flying forgotten snake Beast which spray massiv fire. I am really new to this game and of course i build no Traps etc. I only have 2 Squads Dwarfes but the were melt in 1 sek. together.
Is there a way to beat that thing? I play this Fortress around 10 hours and dont want to make a new one :/.

Thanks.

close off all entrances to that cave with a locked door through a narrow (1 tile) corridor so that is the only access to your base area.

build a second door in that same 1 tile corridor at the side of your base, length between two doors about 8 - 15 tiles

provide a 1x2 area without spears in that corridor close to the door to your base

fill the narrow space between those doors with 'upright spear traps' you'll need a bunch of spears , ideally 10 spears per trap. preferably a metal.

build a lever at the side of your base (outside the corridor) and link all the spear traps to that lever

put a chain in the 1x2 area and tie up a spare animal (f.e. a dog)

now lock the door at the base-side and open the door at the cavern side and watch the forgotten beast. It would get lured to the chained animal, but unable to pass the second door to your base.

once the beast is inside the corridor (step per step using space or ".") lock the door to the cavern so the beast is trapped between two doors.

now put a repeat pull lever command on the lever this will make the traps pull in and out and hopefully kill the beast

Good luck :)

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by jeetrix:

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Ooh great Thanks I learned this now. I have to learn those fort tactics.

And to OP, by the way if all your animals are already dead outside of fort... you can still apply same tactic and make a small burrow and use a single poor dwarf as a lure.
He will always be remembered as a hero. ( I always have too many childrens anyways, and they can get annoying fast.)

And maybe with the new "frame by frame" while paused, one more door in system and dwarf between door 2-3 (door 3 being locked ofc) while door 1 is open, lure the beast in using the frame by frame command (period is the default key I think) and then once in fort but not to your dwarf, close door 2. Maybe that would work ?

[Fin]

Thanks you all!

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