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I spent about 10 minutes getting an embark ready, at which point the wagon spawned on top of a frozen waterfall in a hot area that instantly thawed, causing all my dwarves and their supplies to tumble 9 z levels down and splatter against the walls and floor.

So, I was dealing with performance troupes and migrants, when I got a message saying "giant cave spider has destroyed a door". Sure enough, there was a giant cave spider, and a valuable legendary miner was nearby it. I promptly sent in a squad of crossbowdwarves, who walked directly up to the spider and began shooting it from there. About half of them died.

But, then, something really weird happened; all my civilians went in to recover the weapons and armor of the dead, and the spider completely ignored them. As in, they walked within the same tile of it and it did nothing, not even trying to attack them. I checked, it was still alive, and fully conscious. I sent in another marksdwarf and the spider immediately came back to its senses and mauled him, but then went back to ignoring everyone else as they picked up the poor bastards stuff.

Can anybody explain this? I heard something about trolls being docile, except for the occasional smashing of buildings, due to how intelligent creatures now behave; are GCSs sapient as well?

EDIT: Oh my god there's a fucking child and its pet chick down in the caverns sleeping next to the spider now. It isn't attacking it. This is the most heartwarming thing I've ever seen in this game.

I had a similar issue with vultures interrupting underground jobs, despite being 50 z-levels in the air when the cancellation is announced. Waterfowl simply aren't constrained by our conventional understanding of physics, I suppose.

Anyhow, I've got no idea what the cause is. I assume it's some form of oversight or bug. Raised drawbridges serving as gates seem to contribute to it's occurrence for some reason as well.

Alright. Well, at the very least, we know we CAN lace the water, it just isn't any more profitable.

Oh well. At least I can stop murdering kittens, now.

If you assign a corpse to be dumped before it is actually found by a dwarf, dwarves can still dump it.

Spoiler: "Easy. You simply didn't use enough minecarts." (click to show/hide)

PS: Yes, including the rare 3000 zombie dragon packs (flocks?). It's not the heat that kills them, it's the nigh-thousand urist sledgehammer reasonably measurable in mach scale that also throws them back for the next strike 5 steps behind.

Okay, how the actual fuck did you do this. Please tell me. I need to know. If it wasn't DFHack or adventure mode shenanigans, I may still be able to do something with my system. Also, did you check the value of the water itself? Did it change at all, if you did?

UPDATE: I sold a magma-filled minecart to a dwarven caravan. Their wagons didn't go up in flames immediately, and they were able to exit the map. I'd call that success, so far.

Yeah, this lacing thing isn't going anywhere. I'm not sure contaminants can even lace fluids anymore, since I've thrown about 20 kittens worth of cat blood into the reservoir with little to no results. I think I've reached the limit as to how far I can go with this.

Once another dwarven caravan comes and I sell the magma to it, I'll retire the fort and see if I can request more in a different fort in the same world.

If a minecart is immersed in magma, and contains magma, you can dump water on it to form obsidian, dig out the minecart, and have the magma in the cart perfectly intact.