Watch a Dwarf Fortress goblin raid go disastrously wrong

Lengthy-time followers of Dwarf Fortress might be conversant in goblin raids. When you’ve established a thriving base, the riches you produce inside it turns into irresistible to the violent little brutes, they usually are available large hordes to take it. Dwarf Fortress co-developer Zach Adams has proven off a easy means of coping with them within the new model of the colony management game due out on Steam (sooner or later).

Adams’ fort is dug into the cliffs that line a waterfall gorge, and it has two higher entrances, each coated by lever-operated hatches. Below regular circumstances, the hatch that’s open leads down an extended stairway that results in the water’s floor under the waterfall, the place there are retailer rooms, workshops, and assembly areas instantly accessible.

Nevertheless, when a raid attracts close to, Adams directs his dwarves to shut that hatch and open the one masking the opposite entrance. The goblins head straight for it, not realising that it isn’t only a regular entry into the fortress – as a substitute, this one results in an extended hallway that doubles again on itself and is completely jam-packed with deadly traps.

Right here’s the video:

The massive mob of goblins, which outnumber the native dwarf militia by a big margin, information into the hallway, solely to be slammed in cages, squished by falling rocks, and gored by floor-mounted corkscrew traps. Their numbers benefit dwindles considerably.

The outcomes look as if the dwarves have rolled out the proverbial pink carpet, however it’s actually the goblins who’re chargeable for the change of colors. Sure, Dwarf Fortress is definitely going to have gore now that graphics have been launched.

The goblins finally hand over, however solely after a frankly disturbing variety of casualties. Adams finally opens the doorways to let his militia mop up the stragglers, and to get forward of a pair of misbehaving dwarf youngsters who’ve determined to misbehave and defy his orders to not go selecting up corpses throughout raids.

The goblins captured in cave traps, Adams says, could be safely transported as much as the floor and into the enclosure the place he retains an enormous dingo he purchased from a travelling group of elves. We’ve additionally heard they are often hurled into a volcano, should you’ve received one helpful.

We nonetheless don’t know when Dwarf Fortress is popping out on Steam, we get incrementally extra enthusiastic about every time we see one of these clips.

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