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I once lost a fortress in about 5 seconds to the temperature.

I don't play around with world gen settings anymore.

I had a GCS v 3 dwarves in copper armor and axes.

Chopped it to bits in 2 seconds with every blow glancing off their armor.

Needless to say I'm now slightly less worried if there's a GCS in the cave system.

As a man who likes his glaciers, the easiest method is just to dig down and wall yourself off a nice cavern section that's already been muddied, the whole collapsing ice method works, well it did in 40d, I haven't been able to make it work in 2010 yet.

I gave it a try, essentially I found the problem to be if i put the werewolf body temperature up, they melt, if I put it too far down, they freeze, so when I move the silver temperatures to match the werewolves, I cant make the bullets not boil when out in the open (Oddly enough, if I do two lots of arena combat, ie, 5 humans v 5 werewolves, see result, do test again, the second time around the silver boils, but the first time it does not) and when I can get the humans to fire bullets at the werewolves without them boiling beforehand, they seem to hit like normal bullets, and don't appear to boil inside the body (if they do, it doesn't appear to do damage or get mentioned in the combat logs) Thus I find myself stumped, I can get the bullets to survive half the time and hit the werewolf, where they don't boil, i can get the bullets to survive all the time, but then they have a boiling temperature higher than the werewolves body temperature, if I up the werewolves temperature to meet that, they melt instantly.

Thus I admit defeat at this challenge I decided to look at in my boredom, I assume it is entirely possible, if one can make the werewolf withstand a higher body temperature, as I see other creatures that can have a far higher temperature, it is however outside my limited skill in the subject of modding.

tl;dr Couldn't quite get it to work, requires someone who knows more than me, which cant be that hard.

edit : ah, i thought I'd lost this post somehow, anyway, i also tried adding a syndrome to the silver, and now silver fails to appear in the lists for anything, so i do truly give up now >.>

(can goblins show up in Winter? I haven't checked the basic raw), and something as simple as the bottom-tier civilizations showing up in Winter to harass your outdoors dwarves would add an extra element of guard.

Just to say, Goblins to have the tags to be active all 4 seasons.

I've gotta call BS on this.  My farm plot is 7x8, I have 2 legendary growers and 35 population, if I left my farming on (I only farm plump helmets), my fortress would be drowning in the purple bastards, in fact if I feel my stocks are getting low, I manually monitor my farms, because I end up growing too much food.

Right now I have 240 seeds, 1100 booze, 750 prepared meals, 150 plants, 45 meat.

I never let my planters fill up the farm plot with seeds either, or like I said, I'd be drowning in plump helmets, I usually turn the farm to inactive when they've planted a row (7 tiles).

I'm still running a 150 dwarf fortress one one 5x5, I've been rendering everything I can down into drinks and lavish meals for the past two years, and I don't even use fertiliser >.>

On the same note, i was thinking of getting my 150 dwarves together, arming them with a adamantine battle axe each, (legendary weapon smith)  and breaching place down below, and killing them all, how likely am i to die horribly?