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Okay so this is the plan I got after making an aboveground fortress where the entire fortress is held up by 1 stair in the middle and watching a vid of somebody flooding his map.

The plan is something like this; I build the entire aboveground fortress in a giant cube, and I floor the space above the stair. Now I'm totally alone from the outside and nothing should get in.

After that I want to flood the entire map so that I'm living in this giant box.

It looks something like this

[SIDEVIEW]
~~~~~~~~~~ < highest z-level
~~~____~~~
~~|    |~~
~~|    |~~
~~|    |~~
~~|____|~~
~~~~~{~~~~ < above ground
----------
////////// < beneath ground

~ = Water
| = Walls
{ = stairway (which is now closed)


Building the giant cube isn't my problem, I know how I can do that and what I have to do with it. But flooding the entire map is.

* How can I make the screwpump an infinite water source? (is it even in this version? 40d)
* How can I make the screwpumps above eachother so they flood every z-level
* Is this even possible or does the water flow off at the edges?
* Shall I make the Box above ground or make a passage to the underworld too?

* how does i screwpump?

Hi everybody, another question from me. I've got this tame lizard sitting in an animal trap I've built recently, and I've modded the raws and made lizards [TAMEABLE]. (How cool is an army of war lizards?)
But my Animal Trainer doesn't want to train him (it says Uther McTrainer cancels Train War Animal: No Creature.

The lizard is sitting in the animal trap happily, but how do I get him out? And if he's out will ge get trained? (I've got a Hunting Cat already so I know the tag is correct)



EDIT:

Now I made a nice arena for things I catch to fight in, but how can I transport caged goblins to the cages already standing there hooked up to a lever?

Oh god, I just had this goblin siege and they whooped almost half of my soldiers, when suddenly my Champion came around the corner and started murdering the goblins left. But pityful enough he got pushed into the small pond right at the entrance of my fort. While he was there he heard the noise of a floodgate opening and while he was being flushed out of the pond he insisted that he had to kill 2 more goblins who've also fallen into the water while it's 5/7 deep.

He got out, walked to the entrance again and started mopping the floor again.

Awesome

Hello everybody, small time player, first time poster here.

I'm really enjoying this game so far, about 6 years in my current fort. Altough I have 2 questions:

1. Dumping. When I assign items to be dumped (manually or through d > b > d) inside the fortress, about 20 dwarves show up to dump all the items in the zone in some corner, but now I have some traps outdoors (stone and weapon) and there are goblin parts over them and some rock in the stone trap, also there are bolts lying where I want to built my new wall. I assigned all of them to be dumped but they just won't do it. Now all ambushes/sieges can marsh straight into my fortress (because of the unbuilt wall).
Dwarves are allowed to walk outside and I have a dumping zone setup 2 tiles away. How can I make them dump the stuff?

2. Wells. I have one well in my fortress which works just great, but when I built more (right under that one) I got spammed like : UtherMcIdiot cancels drink: Well dry (something like that). I removed all the old ones and it stopped the spamming, but why are those wells dry and the original one not? (the water was 2 at the bottom, but the old one still worked properly).

Thanks in advance!

EDIT::
3. I have a dog, a goblin maceman and a goblin thief in my cages, what can I do with them?