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So I wanted to trap a dragon in this enclosed space that I could open and close a bridge next to, to allow the dragon to breathe fire through some fortifications when I wanted.

I couldn't encourage the dragon to come out of its lair without taking away its fire breathing by editing its code, I changed the delay before it could attack again from 50 to some number like 5000000000000000000000. It worked but now it seems like nothing I try will allow the dragon to breathe fire again. I've sent dudes right up to it and it only rips them to shreds, no fire. I changed its delay back, but it must be in the game now ticking down? Is there a way I could duplicate the dragon anew?

So I've come across my 2nd megabeast, and once again it was completely anticlimactic. x )
It walked into a cage trap, 0 wounded, 0 dead.

so what on earth do i do with it?

I've thought of a couple different things.

1. put it in a pit, with a retractable bridge on the outer end, and a folding one towards the base, goblins fall in and become play toys. But I don't know if giants have to eat something.

2. target practice for marksdwarfs, would they be able to get enough shots at it that it would be worth it, or would it die without them so much as gaining a level or two?

3. sell it to traders? I'm not sure how much its worth, and its in a willow cage. Wondering if this would be worthwhile.

4. Add it to my zoo?

tell me what you think.
Edit 5 minutes later, a wild Ettin appears!
now I have two giant humanoid megabeasts in cages. x D

so without destroying the stone, I want to know whats the most common, quick, and efficient way of ridding stone.
I don't know if there is anything besides the simple straight forward method that I use...

Selecting all the stone thats in the way of a stockpile, ect, and dumping it to a location usually right outside the entrance.
But this method usually sucks and sometimes even leads to a slow downfall to my fort as everyone is busy dumping stone, so I turn stone gathering off on the majority of my guys but eh...

so should I have a group of people specifically for stone moving at all times?

Is their a water mod that increases the survival rate of everything from drowning?
I searched but didn't find much.
It just doesn't make any sense to me for a Tiger, or monkey, or even half of the elfs and humans to drown so easily.
It seems unless something is amphibious or a fish that water is as lethal as magma. -_-

If not, is it possible to mod, or hard coded?

Silly Question time, how would I go about setting up a continuous no management once its done lava fountain, is such a thing possible?

I started a new fort to test some stuff, at a volcano site WITH TREES and lots of them. Its perfect for setting up some kind of cool flowing lava thing.
purely for the !!FUN!!, aesthetics, and dwarfiness of it.

Welcome friends, here take this pint and take a seat.
Ol' Urist here was just boasting about Mozib Amnek "The Swallow of Tribute", a mighty right steel gauntlet.

Urist - "aye, encrusted with cushion slate cabachons, studded with steel, and encircled with bands of giant cave spider silk and goose leather, adorned with hanging rings of praise. On the gauntlet is an image of Vutok Polishglazed the dwarf and dwarfs in goat leather. Vutok Polishglazed is surrounded by the dwarfs. Obviously it relates to the assension of Vutok Polishglazed the dwarf necromancer to the position of queen of The Faint Mirror in 36. And the same image in schorl. And lastly an image of a octogon cut gem in zircon"
(112800 db)


Now, do ye have anything to boast about?

I'll throw Gripsqueezed in here, why not. A Silver-forged battleaxe, taken up by Mirrorboulder, who always wanted to be a musician. But the fort has so use for magicians, so we gave him an axe and told him to cut up the goblins trying to break down our door instead of playing that damn trumpet all day.



Turns out, it smashes faces in better than his old guitar did.

Theres not too much on the wiki about genetics, and it doesn't cover non-dwarfs from what I see.

Every last one of my dogs, and puppies have the "gigantic" trait, except a single puppy that says "she is very muscular and just gigantic overall".

I started with a single male and female dog. Not hunting, or war, and I trained them at the kennel early on to be war dogs.
I just let them run around and they mostly follow this one dwarf everywhere.

So I'm wondering... were the traits passed down genetically, and if so are these traits of any use? I.E. "gigantic" giving a bonus to "health" more tissues and such. Or possibly more strength it can put behind a bite or charge or something.

So I know that you can make a pasture underground after you discover a cavern,
And animals like cows/yaks/llama's need the grass to eat or they die.

but what about turkeys/ducks/chickens/ect ?
I don't think I've ever noticed them eating grass before, so I want to take them deeper into my fort.