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Thanks for all the help! One of the original mules was presumably strangled by an apprentice small-animal-dissector. Probably not what he was trained for. With my hunter blazing away at the rhesus monkeys, it didn't take long before I had enough bones. The Houndsdwarf is now a Legendary Bonecrafter with his, admittedly plain, mule-bone bracelet. Still, its named "Flamecolor" which is very appropriate for the fortress. Its built around the glass-making business, because I found a magma vent right in the middle of nowhere. Its right next to the river, in fact. How my Dwarves go about without being scalded, I have no idea.

My fortress recently got its first wave of migrants, and a higher number than usual are of useless late-game professions. Soap-makers, lye-makers, potash-makers, that sort of thing. I needed a Houndsdwarf to train the blood-drenched packs cavorting through my halls, so I looked for a new Dwarf who liked dogs. My Soaper is the only one who likes the slobbering things, so he was promoted to Houndsdwarf.

All of two minutes later he goes into a Fey Mood and runs off into the hills, where the immigrants first arrived. I'm assuming this is because I don't have a suitable workshop for a Dwarf whose only tradeskill is Soap-making. While he is ultimately expendable, I would like to try and save him if I can.

So. Am I correct in assuming that an Alchemist's Laboratory is the correct building for a crazed soaper? I doubt he'll actually find his materials, but its worth a shot.

Secondly, assuming that I do managed to get a shop up and he gets his materials, isn't it kind of inevitable that he'll just go insane farther down the line when some Dwarf uses the legendary soap to clean his dirtybits?

I already posted this in the Cavespiders thread, but figure I'll put it here too.

If this was the anticlimactic death thread, I'd just post every fight I've ever had with a bowman...ever. Though I bet I would have killed that last one if my game didn't lag and send me running past the kobold so he could happily shoot me in the ass.

I've recently started a Fortress in the far northern tundra of my world, and had the good fortune to find a magma vent. This is a particuarly interesting vent, to me, because of a large rock overhang that covers about half of it, so that the bottom is essentially a cavern with a giant molten pit in the middle.

I would like to create an entrance at the southern end (the "back") of this cavern, as well as tap into the vent for magma-powered factories. However, there are the usual array of laval creatures that have already proven irksome in chasing off my Dwarves. No fatalaties, yet.

I have a few ideas of how to go about creating an entrance that pleases me stylistically, but I don't want it torn apart by a Magma Man or something. Answers to these questions would be helpful:

1) Can bridges be destroyed by Magma creatures?

2) Can traps be built on bridges? If they cannot, I suppose I can build floors going out over the chasm, and then build traps on those.

The plan right now is to build walls so as to limit the entrance to about 10 tiles wide, and then build bridges going out from there. This will save me the trouble of having to ring the entire thing in traps, hopefully. Which reminds me:

3) If I construct a draw bridge along the edge of the vent that raises towards the magma, will things fall down into the pit when the bridge is raised?

Any other tips, anecdotes, or ideas for what to do with this cavern would be appreciated.

That is very cool, looks like an actual town, at least as Dwarves go. The statues are a nice touch. I second the notion of having the flood-column in the middle; I contemplated something similar for my nobles, though it would come out of the ceiling.

Demonsthenes, I remember the post you're talking about, about verticle apartments with diaganol movement. I can't draw it for you, but the gist of it works in that you have the central staircase, with a room on each corner.

I had a peasant go Fey and create this:

Beardedprairies the Youth of Prowling, a Native gold crown. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. This object is adorned with hanging rings of Tower-cap and menaces with spikes of Native gold.
On the item is an image of a dwarf and a dog in Native gold. The dog is striking down the Dwarf.

Worth: 109,200

My guess is that the peasant was thinking about what happened to the last two Dwarves to go into a (Failed) Mood, as I have a habit of assigning them war dogs for the duration of their insanity.

An army of iron-clad stranglers does sound appealing. Does putting a booze stockpile next to a wounded dwarf allow them to drink from it? I was under the impression they wouldn't drink booze period, not because it was inaccesible to them. I'll give it a shot, though, thanks!