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I was working on a dodge pit, after downloading a save where it worked quite well on a hoard of goblins (I forget the thread I found it in).  It used 3 training spears per trap (there is a bug that crashes with trap components I've been told).

However, I tried it on some zombies and they ran right across!  Looking into it, it appears that zombies lost dodging in a version of 0.42?  What other alternatives are there?  I'm on a evil embark and dead things are wandering in killing all the migrants and caravans.  I wanted to be able to clear them out once in a while because so far military is useless against them.

I've looked all over, trying to find the secret to digging a decent pit.  I decided to do a 10z pit with a door at the bottom that I would just lock or wall up later.  The problem is, the dwarves channel down a couple of levels, then they climb out and never go back!  I tried putting a door up top and locking them in to do their work, but then they just sit there after a couple levels until the door is unlocked.  I saw this: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=9408 so maybe this bug is still active?

Is there a better way?  I was thinking dug stairs on one tile, make the rest then channel those down last but I figure it will have the same problem.  I just want a pit to throw my captured enemies down!