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Get liver cancer, try to cure it by removing his liver, and then drink like any normal day.

WWUD if he had nukes?

After slaughtering a bandit camp with my monarch butterfly man swordsman with like 5 shields, I decided to massacre a kobold camp...I was easily beaten to death by a kobold wrestler...

Well, I tried looking through the layers again, but there shouldn't be any blockage.  I also tried digging new stairways in certain areas I thought might be problematic, but they would just go back to the bottom layers after finishing the stairs.

So, I give up.  If anyone would be willing to look through the fort, I'd be grateful.  Worst comes to worst, I can just retire the fort--not a big loss, considering it's too peaceful and laggy--, or I could abandon the mine area and find a new magma source   

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I recently transferred my 43.03 saves to 43.04 (although I'm not sure if that does anything) and when I loaded my fortress, I was spammed with give food/water cancellations.  Upon investigating this, I discovered that three of my dwarfs were trapped in my deep underground mining section.  After some time, they stopped cancelling and started to perpetually mine, or clean when I disabled their mining preference.  When I removed all of their preferences, they would move to a specific location and stand there, gazing upon the fully functional up stairs...

The dwarf will continuously stand in that spot, but for some reason, when I ordered him to dig out the stairs on the left side, he went to the floor above...and subsequently went back down after that.


I've meticulously checked to see if there were any open spaces or walls blocking anything, but there is nothing from that layer to the outside world; they're just incapable of saving themselves. 

Could it be a consequence of transferring the save?  Or could it be from some complication brought about from the recent cave crocodile incident?  Or am I just overlooking something obvious, which is usually the case?

Im still setting the trap but how do I stop my whole fortress from trying to kill the FB?

Make a burrow in some room inside the fort, away from the FB, go into the military menu, go into the alert tab by pressing [a], make a new alert, press enter, and press enter on the burrow's name, which will activate it.  This way, all of your dwarfs will enter a sort of "panic room" that they can't escape from until you deactivate the alert.  Before you do deactivate it, you should lock any doors leading to the FB, so your dwarfs don't charge after it, or do something detrimental--as dwarfs have a penchant for doing--and so you can mine and attempt a cave-in.

If it's an FB that can destroy doors/walls though...then this won't work, but I don't think that's common, and I'm not sure if FB's even spawn with this action.

Ah, I see, I thought I was overlooking something obvious.  Thanks for the advice

Easy?  Managing a colony of temperamental alcoholics is never easy...

But I suppose there are a lot of tutorial videos you can look at for a better understanding of how to play.  Plus, as others have said, resources packs go a long way I suppose.

But in terms of mods, I think Dwarf Therapist and maybe dfhack would help (although I don't think they are up to the current DF version yet).  And you could probably edit the raws to remove detrimental races, such as goblins, colossi, trolls, and dragons (however, I don't think you can mod away vampires and necromancers).