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Tarn Adams Talk Announcement and Questions Submission (July 2021)
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Dealing with an experiments infestation
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The carp stands up.

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Tarn Adams Talk Announcement and Questions Submission (July 2021)

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Nightstalker: The Insane Chained Vampiress

Posted: 10 Jul 2021 07:25 PM PDT

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Dealing with an experiments infestation

Posted: 11 Jul 2021 02:49 AM PDT

My embark is a little more necromancer-y than I thought it would be, and early on I was assaulted by parties consisting mainly of experiments.

Seems they liked the place, because a whole bunch of them became "friendly" and decided to hang around the surface.

Now I'm not a close-minded dwarf, but these guys keep breeding and I'm not liking the FPS drain much. It's not too bad as their pop seem to cap around 600, but that's a lot more experiments than I want around my base (the correct amount is none).

How do you manage this kind of nuisance? Here's what I've tried so far:

Traps: they're all (or most of them) immune
Drown the whole surface in magma. Took quite a bit to build the 148-levels magma pump and its windfarm ; and it turns out the magma dries way too fast to cover it all with a single pump stack.
Build walls to channel the magma to specific areas: this was just about as troublesome as getting the magma to the surface, but kind of successful in the end. I did manage to burn a couple hundreds of experiments this way, but it takes a huge amount of time to set up and clean each flood, and sometimes not all of them burn - I'm not sure whether they're fireproof or flying above the magma. In any case, I can't burn them faster than they breed.
Tried to just directly target them with military squads. Mixed results: some are easy targets, some are dangerous. As they're "friendly", I had to direct each kill manually, so not really workable for hundreds of continually breeding nuisances.
Tried to set up a ballista battery. It kind of works, but it's way too slow and the targets are way too spread out. Also I burnt most of it with magma at some point.

If I knew how to bait them at least, I could do something... But as "friendly" "others", they don't seem much bothered when I slay one or two in front of the rest.

I'd like to beat this without cheating/cheesing too much, do you guys have any ideas?

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Dwarf Fortress Roundtable Episode 54 livestream: July 11 at 4PM GMT, where we attempt a bit of a Let's Play

Posted: 10 Jul 2021 07:59 PM PDT