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Below -80 for an embark temperature is fun.  You get no wild animals, no trade, no liaisons, etc.

It forces you down to the caverns for wood and water, at least, and frame rates are typically quite high.

My current evil glacier site is -110 C and I still get caravans and diplomats. Granted, they're from my own civ so it may not be what you're talking about.

It's still the most challenging embark so far. It has mist that makes a dwarf bleed out in 6 frames and it's cold enough to destroy any non-metal item on the surface in a minute and make even the blizzard men die from frostbite in two minutes.

When I try to assign them to burrows they just stand still until I undo it, putting them in squads and ordering them somewhere works thought.
Also, since vampires will never starve or thirst to death AFAIK and if atom smashing creates a ghost problem you could do what I do to them which is drop a cave-in on them which kills them outright and leaves a copse to handle.

On my first terrifying biome after the update everything was fine until my yak (that I didn't order but spawned with me anyways) died and reanimated almost instantly and killed successfully every single one of my seven dwarves even thought they were all hacking away at it with swords.

In evil regions where the dead spontaneously animate, is there enough delay between reanimations to toss the bodies into an atom smasher?

I had enough as people have pointed out the reanimation time is random, I set my military to stay on the path that the dumpers will take so that they can kill whatever when it reanimates and then quickly select the part for dumping again all the way to the atom smasher.

I usually create a uniform using the best armour that I can create and make the name a snappy reference to the metal the equipment is made out of and then danger room them until they don't suck anymore (I don't max them out thought, that's boring too) and then create bottlenecks that I post them at when needed.

Before I dug around the wall my other dig team discovered a lava lake that apparently gave me sightline into the carnicval staging ground but I never checked inside of it. I only discovered that I could see into it when I opened the units menu to kill a zombie milkfish that had been keeping all of my carpenters from chopping down the trees and saw a massive amount of undead creatures and some clowns which led me to believe that Armageddon was around the corner but luckily they were all inside of the structure and not marching towards my gates.


I'm scared.

1) As everyone's told you, stone fall traps are pretty bad, use weapon traps with 2 or so weapons made out of low grade metals like copper, this can maim and even kill creatures like goblins quite easily and it's cheap to build.

2) No regular trap requires a pressure plate to activate IIRC.

3) I draft anyone who isn't highly skilled in a useful profession and isn't already in a squad

4) use channel (h) to create a trench and then go down a z-level and use remove up stairs/rap (z) to remove the path in and out of the trench, repeat for as many z-levels as you wish.

5) Elves are really pissy about wooden products, no matter what quality it is.

6) Creatures will sometimes attempt to dodge hits by moving to a tile adjacent to the current one, if the tile they move to has nothing on which to stand they will fall down.

or your hammerdwarf squad leader not care about the silver warhammer he has and instead generate a 24 page battle report of him punching a troll untill in passes out from fatigue and then crush its head with the hammer.