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Just hit year 2 in latest 42.03 fort. Accidentally uncovered first cavern, dug all the way down to the magma, leave df running while lunching... and I come back to realise that my lovely little fort of less than 100 dwarfs is crawling at 2-4 fps. turning temperature off does nothing. Sealed cavern access, magma accesses all blocked by smelters and forge impassable tiles.. Best guess is the various fruit/leaf/snow spatter murdered fps like whoa. .. If only dfhack 42.03 were out and I could run clean map all.

Realised my fireblob FB was still alive. It's happily turning the first cavern layer's moss and beasties into fire, leaving a trail of ash, and steaming the lakes away as it wanders. I ought to either set up a collapsing trap or a caging set up to either dispose of it or to collect it for future use. Or leave it alive in the caverns as a punishment for dwarves and gobbos that offend me.

Edit: Realised that actually, the fireblobby has actually set the TREE-SHROOMS on fire. ... and probably roasted one of my dwarfs that got into the caverns somehow. Not to mention creating 'cave-in' notifications when it destroys a tree-shroom. Or at least that's what I figure happened with that collapse notification from an unrevealed cavern area.

Cleaning up after a gobbo siege, putting the finishing touches on a drowning trap... and the necromancer tower decides to pay me a visit. With 4 human necromancers hauling along their entourage of dead human bodies. This is going to be fun... or !!Fun!!..

YES!!!

*goes to download df .14*

Just caught a GCS in the cage trapped entrance to the caverns!

Now to figure out an effective way to harvest GCS silk....

I wonder which is better - leaving the GCS wild for easier silk collection, or taming it to feed sieges to it? Not that I've had sieges lately, mind, even though every liason visit has tales of my civ getting overrun..

Okay thanks. Time to dig down into the magma sea and make a magma dump...

Got a nice little fort up and running in 40.09. Finally had enough of a military to actually try and fight sieges, as opposed to slamming the gates and waiting for them to go away.

I must say, it certainly feels as if in this version, if the enemy siege can't path into the fort, they give up and go away fairly quickly, which is minimally disruptive to the fort.

I had a trap corridor with cage traps up, to winnow out incoming sieges until my 2 squads can snipe and hammer them at leisure. The next siege promptly arrives in winter....  gets bogged down in the trapped corridor... and turned into goblin paste by one of their own, who was apparently a weremonkey. Said weremonkey gobbo then walks into a cage trap. I'm so amused at this point, I turn the squads loose with mop up instructions, and have my haulers set up the were monkey/goblin cage in the main meeting area. I like to imagine the fort idlers and children gather to laugh, point, and poke, especially when the transformation occurs....