Majestix

No offense, but this is the opposite of a "Pro Tip".

This is the sort of thing I did when I did not know how to play. It takes longer to gather the resources for the traps, to place them and to check them than it would take a Webber to get whatever you are getting out of them. OP, don't do it.

So typical: Klei improve the average number and quality of drops, and the spoilt children here start complaining that they want mooooore.

There was a change since all the videos that you have seen: the bone cage is now essentially unavoidable, hugging the edge is useless. You can either telepoof out of the cage or just tank him while you are stuck in it.

Essentials to even start the fight: 8 fossil fragments, atrium key (from killing the ancient guardian), the heart (from killing a level 3 shadow chess piece). Desirable/essential equipment during the fight: nightmare amulet to get rid of the hands, lazy explorer to get out of his cages, sanity management: either a lot of sanity food or -- my preference -- one or two bee queen crowns, body armour, means of dealing with his healing minions. I prefer weather pains. For your first fight, get two or three. The catapults will do their job for a while, but he can break them. Since you say you have also been switching characters, I recommend switching to Warly and making a few Volt Goat Chaud-Froids (will multiply your damage by 1.5, or by 2.5 if you fight in the rain); if you have some chillies, then might as well spice up your food, to get another 20% extra damage. Remember that telepoofing with the lazy explorer costs you a fair bit of sanity, so use sparingly. Also start the fight with full sanity. Oh, and I hear you on those ornaments, it was a big motivation for me to fight all the bosses, too, but you did not mention the main reason for fighting this guy: he is such a well designed boss, this fight is just great fun. Personally, I would never cheese it with catapults or other cheese methods, because it is so much fun when done right. So enjoy!

I just went into this fight as Wolfgang, not aware of the change. Admittedly, I had prepared well, had changed into Warly beforehand and cooked myself a Volt Goat Chaud-Froid and chilli-spiced food, but the upshot was: instead of teleporting out of the cage: one can tank him while in the cage. The only worry for me would be the BQ crown. With Wolfgang, it was still at 23% at the end. With other characters I would always temporarily take it off while being hit.

This bug is definitely newish, it's not that people were less vocal about it. I now regularly get this with Wolfgang (so not just Wurt) against Moose and DF. As described in the original report, it occurs if the giant moves towards you before you land your first hit. In that case all the hits until the next kite do not register.

But you still have to cool the steam engine, right? I essentially use Brothgar's design, but in addition I ship the metal out and drop it next to the steam engine; and then the same cooling loop that is keeping the engine cool also cools down the metal to useable temperatures. His design is my favourite combination of practical and safe: it is not completely fail safe, but it is so easy to build and to maintain in an actual game, that it's good enough for me.

You need to take a chill pill, dude. He is acting like "everybody knows who this Brothgar is and can find his methodology online", because pretty much everybody here knows who "this Brothgar" is, and can find his methodology online.

There is nothing wrong with attempting such improvements, I just wish they did some testing before rolling out new mechanics.

Wrong section. Submit a bug report.

As per title, the Home Sweet Home imperative is bugged. After completing the monument, I see a nice animation with all the dupes happy, then a few shots of my base, then the shot of the monument, and then a black screen (although I hear sounds that suggest that there should be another animation). After that the game hangs and I have to kill it. When I reopen, I can only load the last save, before the monument was completed. In case this is relevant, the world was started on the main branch before the launch upgrade. Save file just before monument was complete is attached. Underground Factory.sav

I am still having that issue. I have not yet figured out when it happens, but the symptoms are as Mday described: after some shattering, all sound is lost, then eventually comes back again.

I can confirm this. I have caged one pangolden, and another one is roaming freely. Neither poops gold after eating 3 gold dust. The caged one is constantly trying to go somewhere, so I guess his home was not relocated, but also the free one ate 9 gold dust, and 2 days later still no gold.

The bug is not that minor: if you then dig up the stump, the piko disappears, together with whatever precious resource it had in its mouth. The bug has been reported at least 5 times now, the first time back in October. A bit strange that the devs have still not even acknowledged that the bug is there.