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I embarked on a 2x2 map with a bottomless pit (I used feature finder)
About 5 seconds after embarking, the bottomless pit PUKES out lava about 3 z-levels high into the air. This floods out all over, and then starts a massive fire that kills whatever the lava didn't outside.

It then falls back down into the chasm, killing all the chasm creatures.
After that, things are more or less quiet. No more random spews of flaming death, anyways.
I've been playing on the map for about 3 years (only my miner survived the map's little 'surprise', so I decided to make it into a hermit fort,) but that initial explosion of fiery death never did quite leave my mind.

I don't know whether to put this in Suggestions or Bug Reports, so I'm posting it here as a safe middle-ground

Using the Regional Prospector utility, I found a map with adamantine and broke into the pits with a pack of seven miners, planning to reclaim with the chamber's added wealth and bring a bunch of troops to set up a massive, epic battle.

However, whenever I try to reclaim, Dwarf Fortress crashes immediately. I wouldn't be surprised if, like in the 2D version, I couldn't reclaim a fort that had hit adamantine and/or the pits. But if that's the case, why not just bring up a message stating such, instead of outright crashing?

And just to cover all the bases; I abandoned and reclaimed another area of the same world just now to make sure it wasn't some sort of error.

The question is pretty much in the subject title. I'm wondering if there's any added danger to a named wild animal, or any added bonus to a named pet, besides the fact it's obviously killed before?

I was trying (unsuccessfully) to take over a goblin fortress. I had four dogs left. Curious to see where they are, I check them out. Three are hanging out around the wagon, but a fourth is... floating in midair, along with a corpse and a bunch of objects?

I look to the Z-level below for answer, and apparently the dog and all of the goblin's possessions are on top of a Alder.

At the very least, the dog should be able to move off of the tree. But it's not. Bug? I'd say so.

Save here, the dog in question is named Gomuxsnuk.
Excuse the carnage and tragedy, I hadn't played for a while and thought I could take over goblin forts like I used to, and... well, it just isn't that easy anymore.

Bear with me, I truthfully have no idea how a game works coding wise, but judging by what I've seen, this shouldn't be impossible.

I've heard of people wanting to make ranches to keep their animals out of the hallways. But right now, as the animals attempt to path-find, it slows the game to a crawl. Cages and restraints, however, have a tendency to randomly make the animals stop breeding.

What I was thinking, is to dig a room, and then place something suitable (I was thinking a feeding trough) in it to zone a room off of. Assign animals to it like you would a cage, and then they will freely wander in only the area marked out by the 'ranch' room's borders.

Of course, they'd leave if, say, an undead elephant wandered in the middle of the group and began a massive massacre, but I'm assuming if they were inside that wouldn't happen as often.

Do tame animals actively eat? I've never noticed, but maybe they're assumed to just find their own food. If so, then by keeping, say, a herbivore (like a horse, mule, or cow) in a stone room where no grass grows would bring up the oppurtunity to make hay and give it to them, while carnivores (dogs or cats) would need similar food made of meat (or maybe just the meat itself.) That could give more use for the Animal Caretaker skill?

Feel free to tear my ideas apart, tell me how this could never work, call me names for thinking of it, ect. Just try to keep it a tad civil? No death threats, please!