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• 40d:Moat
  ...dge, you pull the [[lever]] to retract it and pull the lever to spring the traps. When they fall, they get perforated. However, there's ramps at the end of Like the trap moat, only the channel is filled with cage traps instead so you can expand your [[zoo]]. If you use this strategy, it is re
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• 40d:Dragon
  ...ky and destroy internal organs. Considering their fire-breathing ability, traps are probably the safest way to manage this creature. ...existing Dragon, it will be labeled "local resident" and be immune to Cage Traps) and then tamed or sold to traders. ('''Beware''': if you attempt to transf
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• 40d:Goblin
  ...han once a year. Fortunately, they are not very bright, and will walk into traps by the hundreds. They may sometimes come riding [[beak dog]]s as cavalry. I ...e. [[Trap#Cage_Trap|Cage traps]] also seem to be more effective than other traps at catching those sneaking goblin masters.
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• 40d:Stories/Archive 5
  ...guarded the end of the tunnel while one brave miner opened the hallway of traps to the outside and the goblins rushed in. The goblins were all slaughtered ...of ballista, a dwarven atom smasher, and the original twisting hallway of traps. It was a beautifully designed system on par with the underground farming c
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• 40d:Stories/Archive 14
  ...left open. Their charge through the gates was blunted by a large array of traps, significantly reducing their numbers before Astebkol’s fortress guardsme ...stood in their way with ease. Fortunately, the dwarves had upgraded their traps since the First Siege of Astebkol, and most of the invaders were butchered.
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• 40d:Starting build design
  ...Once the fortress is established, he will also make quality mechanisms for traps and constructions. Carpentry and Mechanics are both relatively low priorit ...in weapon traps, so high quality bone/wood bows can easily be a staple for traps, through the entire game.
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• 40d:Creature token
  | The creature is immune to traps. | The creature cannot be caught by trappers or animal traps. ''However, this may not work in all cases, as both dragonflies and fairie
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• 40d:What should I build first
  :* '''Traps for defense''' ...ism|mechanisms]], then designate them as [[Trap#Stone-fall_Trap|stone-fall traps]], the simplest. The other trap-types are fine if you have the other requir
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• 40d:Machine component
  ..., [[hatch|hatches]] or [[floodgate|floodgates]], or simple one-tile [[trap|traps]], nor to manually operate [[pump|pumps]]. ...or a [[gear assembly]] - as well as all the other various simple one-tile traps. Mechanisms are created using the [[mechanic]] labor in a [[mechanic's wor
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• 40d:How do I increase the value of a room
  ...n easily max out a room's quality. This works for both conventional weapon traps and upright spears. As an added bonus, a strategically placed menacing spik ...'. Furniture artifacts can be built directly, weapons can be put in weapon traps, and buckets can be put in wells.
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• 40d:Dwarven weapon
  ...s the usual weapons traps, spears can also be used in [[Trap|upright spear traps]].
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• 40d:Attribute
  ...pants, gloves, shoes, shields, flasks, goblets, instruments, toys, animal traps, buckets, ammo, backpacks, quivers, trap components, siege ammo, ** Cleaning jammed traps
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• 40d:Demon
  ...one-fall traps]], [[Trap#Weapon_Trap|weapon traps]], [[Trap#Cage_Trap|cage traps]] and will destroy your [[door]]s and [[floodgate]]s. They can also fly and *Demons aren't susceptible to standard traps, but they will trigger them if you can find [http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-88
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• 40d:Stories/Goblin entryism: A threat to Dwarfkind
  ...to the invention of spike traps, goblin bone bolts and crafts, stone fall traps, [[cage trap]]s and [[weapon trap]]s, [[magma]] moats as well as many of th
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• 40d:Mechanism
  .../forum/index.php?topic=14461.msg131214#msg131214 here]. This means weapon traps will benefit more from high-quality mechanisms. {{Category|Traps}}
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• 40d:Fire imp
  ...magma with the intent of killing your dwarves, only to get caught by your traps. This is a good semi-safe way to control the fire imps in your area. Just m
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• 40d:Important advice
  ...in, it's a lot better than having to build that long hallway of stone-fall traps, plant the whole bag of plump helmet seeds, and make that shipment of steel ...- tub style mechanical chicken plucker --> bunch of stone-fall traps. Cage traps are also easy (you can make cages out of wood).
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• 40d:Cross-training
  ...e importance of this skill depends on the extent of your use of levers and traps in your fortress design.
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• 40d:Stories/Archive 1
  ...ders dropped from above and crushed some of them, two had been captured in traps.
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• 40d:Stories/Archive 4
  They scoured their rooms for traps, of course. But they think so small - they searched for floodgates, for pre ...chanics. The standby army never even had to fight off invaders as the many traps did their work. The dwarves had little need to go outside the fort walls as
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