They should also have one or more specific gameplay purposes in mind. In summary, I think they should be mostly slow enough to be an obstacle and a threat to property, rather than a threat to gnomes (at least, the ones who run for it). (I would keep the metal robot automatons too, but maybe as an upgrade from basic golem servants.) Perhaps a way to make automatons would be to safely capture a 'wild' golem and then feed it written instructions. Rather than being a source of raw materials for automatons, they could be actual precursors to them. In myth, the golem WAS a servant automaton, not merely its close cousin.Maybe golems resist ranged weapons, shrug off most traps, or smash through walls/floors easily - but move very slowly. Particularly if they tax defenses in a different way. Mechanic - Mechanics reset automatic traps and operate mechanisms. Unarmed Gnomes should be able to deal with a single goblin raider, but you never know. As mentioned by others, an invasion type containing many golems could be neat. WARNING: There is a bug in Gnomoria 0.9.8 that causes goblin raiders to spawn, even on Peacful.Golems could also be useful in other ways, for example, maybe when unable to see/reach something to fight, they could slowly travel towards raw resources of a similar type, perhaps leaving a trail of rubble and/or wreckage behind them to follow.For example, placeable runes on walls/floors that golems cannot pass through (but most everything else can), or some method of creating a golem on purpose. This could be a fine purpose for them, particularly if there were more tools to manage their creation or control. Golem cores were an obvious need, but you could also use them to convert excess stone into metal slivers. What determines their strength In DF, trap strength is controlled by the weapon material - the analouge would be blades or spikes. In Gnomoria, some players spawned golems on purpose, either as expendable guardians to place in the way of the goblins, or to farm items from them.Ultimately, I think the best thing we can do to improve the golem design is to have a specific gameplay purpose for them, rather than using them as a bandaid bug fix. Instead of somehow optimising the gnomes' item selection and pathfinding, we just got golems to change player behavior and sweep the lag under the rug. The game got quite laggy sometimes, and a prime cause of that was too many loose items for the gnomes to consider picking up when they needed an item. I'm debatiting pit vs smash and tempted to make the smash trap in the link above.In Gnomoria, golems were used as a mechanic to discourage players from leaving thousands of items all over the ground. Like, Sub, Comment, Share It all helps me out, yo D Today's vid is a tutorial this. Just build one big dirt wall around your settlement and do not leave an opening. A very controversial strategy for many reasons. The clever placement of traps, walls and mechanical contraptions will complete your military. Keep in mind that a strategy not only covers military, but also buildings and gear. I'm still goofing around with 'real' traps like pit traps and have tinkered with Arryu's design a bit on a test world but haven't implemented one on my real kingdom. Gnomoria - Traps for Dummies, Learning the Basics. There are quite a few strategies on how to defend a settlement. I also block their LOS so they dont run towards the mobs right away thus making the mobs endure my trap-path which usually kills a few and makes most of them bleed thus making my guard's work much easier! At the end of the funnel where the door to the kingdom is I put a few squads of guards training. I've always walled in until I get set up then I make a 'funnel' path for gnomes, monsters, etc to get in and line it with a crap-ton of traps. Probably isn't what you're after, but just making sure you know of some easier options, at least until you figure out setting up the more advance stuff.

and I'm pretty green so take it for what it's worth. Blade traps require no power or advanced systems, they only need to be reset by engineers each time they are set off. guide to mechanics with many links to traps

Arryu seems to be our biggest Gnomoria champion. I hate to 'blanket link drop' but there are a bunch on the official site. Kelderek has a trickle feeder variation he uses with an 'ok' writeup.

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