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If I'm not misinterpreting, the basic idea is that you use an !!artifact!! as an infinite source of fire, since they don't follow the same rules as every other material?

I think that is what he is saying, then letting kobolds steal the artifact, burning sock, which will cause them to become !!kobolds!! and kill them, leaving the !!sock!! to be picked up again by another, unlucky kobold. It is like a dwarven automatic thief catcher. The only problem I see with this idea is that, no matter how far away from the edge of the map the sock is, it will always, slowly move towards the edge of the map, and so will need to be moved every once in a while. I suppose you could have it such that anyone wanting the !!sock!! will have to go across a bridge one zlevel above the artifact, and pull the lever once the sock is nearly off the end of the bridge.

It's these utterly crazy, practical ideas that make me love this forum.

I had this happen to me, not in .14, but in .13. It seems to happen if you embark upon a place you have abandoned, not reclaiming it. I am not sure about what happens if you properly reclaim a site, but just embarking on a site you abandoned, then removing a construction, seems to replicate this bug. Of course, you can exploit it by mining out all the useful material, then abandon then embark on it again. One more thing, any enemies who are on the ground when you abandon seem to become your allies once you embark on the same spot again.

It might not be a new thing, but I found something very, very strange on relclaiming. I didn't actully use the reclaim at the embark screen, I just embarked on half of my old fortress, which didn't show up on the world map for some reason. Once I had embarked, It showed kobolds all around me, friendly towards me. I assumed that these kobolds were on the map when I abandoned, as I had locked myself away from the outside world and were thus unrevealed when I abandoned. The kobolds killed the forgoten beast that killed my last fortress, and then I ordered someone to build a wall to the caverns, to stop anymore annoying things coming in. Being a dorf, he built the wall on the wrong side, so I ordered it deconstructed.

 When this happened, everything went black, as if it was undiscovered. I went back to the top, and found that the stairway had been filled it, somehow. I dug a new one, and realised that the entire fortress had been filled in again, as if I had embarked on a new place. All the items that were down there were released when the stone was dug out. The funny thing was, everyone but my miner was filled in, so he had to race against time to dig them out. Also, now all the trees and shrubs growing are called "tree" and "shrub" without any type, and I also can't cut them down. It is very, very strange...but at least I can mine out the same cluster of magnetite twice

*edit*
After some !!science!! I found that, once the site has been improperly reclaimed, it did not revert when I built and deconstructed a wall outside, but if I created then deconstructed a wall in the caverns it will refill everything. Refilling also puts down more mud in the carverns.

I don't know much about modding, but could you mod the dwarves to not need picks to mine without having to gen another world? What happens if you add the tag that lets picks dig tiles to, say, the dwaves hands?

But it still doesn't explain why I have random goblin civilians attacking each other in the towers.