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I built a well inside because I got tired of my dwarves running outside and getting butchered everytime they wanted to clean or give water. However, they only use it occasionally. Most of the time they still run outside to the very distant stream and get smeared by an ambush. Aside from a fortress sized burrow how do I keep my dwarves inside with my nice well?

Can I say start a fort somewhere, mine up a ton of cotton candy, process it into wafers and put them into bins, then abandon the fort and send an adventurer to get the bins?

Once I do that can I take the bins to the site where I want to put my REAL fort, drop the bins, retire him then start a fort there to get the bins? I want to know because that'll let me pursue my megaproject to harvest all candy from across the world and build a giant dwarven dildo out of it all with magma coming out of the tip.

After a few years the outdoors get completely stained with blood for pretty much ever. My smearfort looks like the site of a genocide, it rules.

The blood of course belongs to dogs, dwarves, cats, goblins, and one elf. I don't have running water, only standing pools. They're surrounded with blood from dwarves cleaning themselves.

In 40d I once had a map with a huge 31 tile wide river going from east to west that carved a canyon and above on each side there were two smaller rivers dumping into it with 20 z level waterfalls. This was a megaproject haven but I stopped working on it due to a bug. I've been trying to find another similar site but I have had no luck. The problem is all those damn rivers on the embark screen are actually brooks or streams. I'll move the cursor over every "river" tile on the map and can't actually find one. What aids in their generation and what's a good way to guarantee such a feature. Especially cutting through mountains like my last one did.

So I was doing my rounds of smoothing every surface in my fort because I'm obsessive compulsive and forgot I had muddied rock instead of sand/loam for my farming area. I smoothed my farms!!! Now they're not muddy and I don't have time to muddy them again, people are starving.

On another note I wasn't ready for an ambush that came and I sealed my fort off. This didn't stop 20 migrants and a legendary beast from coming though. There are pieces everywhere, it was glorious.

I haven't played in ages so before jumping into the new version answer me this. I already know about building a fort in the sky suspended by a single column. My question is creating farmable land in this sky fortress. Can I build the fortress of steel blocks and pump magma into it to create a magma/obsidian layer and make it muddy for crops? I want to breach this so called layer that kills your fort then remove the only way out of my self sufficient sky fort to keep it safe.

I'm going to experiment with paratroopers to battle the unleashed menace. Don't spoil it for me if that will work or not, field testing is required.

There's a series of videos I saw a few years ago that I want to show a friend but I can't find them now for the life of me. It was about quantum mechanics/tunneling and had various things such as splitting a particle, then splitting those particles, then observing or changing those particles and weird things would happen.

Details I can remember:

black background
stationary top down viewpoint
narrator but no live actors
very simple/basic graphics drawn on the screen as the presentation continues
4 parts to the video, I think


Does anyone know the videos I'm talking about? I've searched all over youtube and can't find it. I know this information isn't much and it's a stretch but I'm asking anyway dammit.

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