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Dear fellow forumers, I need your help. The situation is most dire.


As you can see, over 200 of goblins and trolls laid siege on me. They also brought their civilization master (who is a demon) too, so I guess they really want us to die this time.

So my question is - how do I flood the surface world with magma? Would this simple method be sufficient to pump magma up Z levels? I actually never had the chance to test that, but it looks as I have no choice now.


Have you got any tips/ideas beside the wiki wisdom? Or should I make another approach and deal with the siege differently?

So, I was checking on a miner with a broken arm that was lying in a hospital recovering from an giant olm incident. Then I accidentally (v)iewed a nearby dwarf and discovered that every of her body part is wounded in yellow, except the upper body which is fine and throat, both eyes and both eyelids which are dark yellow/brown.

No battle reports, no scars, no injuries or medical history, nothing about her preference about working outdoors (i thought it may be a sunburn from cave adaptation). First I thought vampire and sun exposure, but she's happily drinking a barrel of alcohol.

Any ideas what might have caused that?

I've glazed a few statues, but I don't see the effect. They change colour and it uses a bar of ash. But is there any other effect? Like value increase or something?

On of my unlucky woodcutters got mauled to death by a giant badger. He even had an iron axe and actually knew how to use it, but reading the combat report I saw that it jumped on him, charging, and got him by surprise. The poor guy didn't even have a chance to defend himself, and managed to retaliate, and miss, only once, a few seconds before his death. That was the last message, beside him bleeding to death.

I'm also building a cistern as I have only saltwater. My masons got assaulted by the badgers, but noone has been killed, miraculously.

My rather decent militia (only a few waves of migrants, some were quite good soldiers). Proceed to chase them away. They kill them, and only one dwarf gets her head cut and later torn open, but she survived without any internal injuries.

Another wave of badgers appears and manages to injure many of my soldiers. They all have only one or two cuts that aren't that horrible, but they all get bedridden and must drink only water, that is salty. One of them luckily healed on his own, but his body is still dented. He is incredibly quick to heal, though.

 I don't know if I can finish the cistern in time, and I'd hate losing them to such minor cuts, especially while having about three great doctors and lots of cloth and thread (drowned the elven traders )
 
The water in the cavern's pools are also salty.  Do I have any options besides finishing the cistern?