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The new custom workshops seem like they could hold a great deal of potential. Since you can choose what skill is trained it could be possible to set up "training dummies" by creating a custom workshop that would require certain materials, rock, wood, corpses, and train their weapon skills.

Build a device that will flood the entire fort if a another floodgate is opened. Very easy to keep him from touching the stuff. Put it all into a room and put a drawbridge over the only entrance.  Put a lever near the floodgate and attach it to the drawbridge. Pull the lever and the drawbridge closes. Then when he looks at what you have done is build a way to destroy the fort by pulling a lever. He will never touch that lever. And thus your goodies are safe.

I'm in university so my summer started in April. I decided to go across the country to a new city to go back to university to take more courses. I traveled 3000km to take Introduction to Quantum physics. The climate change from Ottawa to Victoria was just a bonus, had nothing to do with my decision, nothing at all.

There was a thread about using trees to hold back the magma since ballista arrows can go through trees but magma won't.

Hauling an item pays 1@. That is why haulers are so poor. They spend a week hauling some stone from the greatest recesses of the earth to the masons workshops just to watch the mason spend 30 minutes turning it into a no quality table and earning 10 times more then they did.

Name: Kira
Profession: Miner
Personality: Likes architecture and to design things.

Been a while since I joined a community fort.

Now that's simply silly. The trees will burn, magma pours onto your ballista, your ballista burns, your dwarf burns, Everything goes to hell in a handbasket.

Magma cannot enter a tile occupied by a tree. Also It cannot burn the trees that it is around.

I don;t have a pic from that time but at one point my fort of about 180 dwarves had 96 children. Production was slow.