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You should be able to just file them all in the same burrow.

I'm doing a bit of both - still only have about 60 dwarves, but about 20 are the exploratory team (four miners, a couple support staff, and two good-sized squads of trained dwarves in iron), about 25 are keeping things running up top and building surface fortifications against the inevitable gobbo rushes, and the rest are doing pretty much whatever springs to mind in between; setting up intermediate base camps, designing trap corridors, exploiting already-struck cavern levels, shuttling gems/ores up and the occasional food shipment down, etc.

Burrows make life SO much easier when you're like me and basically have at least two and a half forts that are largely independent of one another (and separated by about two hundred feet of rock, water, and beasties).

I suppose you COULD just move your entire fort into the caves and make the traders come in after you.

It doesn't work yet. I'd guess it'll be a bit, with how huge an overhaul this version was. (Which is sad, since I really want to visualize the vast underground spaces.)

Edited correction correction. Just floor over the problematic pipe.

You will almost certainly lose dwarves; stationing military dwarves will help. But from there, you can work something out at your leisure. Dwarves will die, but as long as they're mostly marksdwarves, or the posting is not at the edge of the magma pit, it will work out.

Got it. I'll be starting the thing later in the day than planned, but hey.

I have read none of this thread except the first post.

I'm in.