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why are you cowards using the word geldable

They're literally called that in the raws.

Paperwork. To be submitted by the player.

Each dig, each build, each lever-pulling, every civil/legal/martial decision needs to be accompanied by fully-documented requests for authorisation, and the rest.

Yes, you can still flood the surface with magma, but you need the proper planning permissions, environmental impact statements, liability waivers for third parties and agents...

Mandatory bidding contests between contractors for every single task.  You have to take whoever charges the least, even if they're completely incompetent actually to do it.

A mime where all mimes are mimed by mimes because mimes mimes mimes.

There should be food men like there are animal men, so you could have a dwarven cheese man, or a strawberry roast man.

Foolish bastards!

My foolproof method (well not really mine I read it elsewhere):

Magma channel level.

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X=Walls
M=Magma
C=Channel
B=Bridge

On the top level, I have the channel and at the square right before where I intend to breach, I build a bridge after channeling down.  I prefer to use non-magma-safe material for this.  Then I wall off the channel level so nobody can get in.

The breach level.

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U, Upward staircase
R, Ramp

This is in the z-layer directly below the magma channel.  If you don't like a leftover ramp, I think you can deconstruct the ramp originally present and construct a new one out of non-magma-safe material.  It doesn't matter what direction the hallway comes in so long as the ramp is directly below the bridge.

Now double check and make sure the magma channel is inaccessible.  And designate the X directly to the right of the bridge on the channel level.  Watch as the dwarf goes down to the corridor under the magma channel, stands on the ramp, and digs upward diagonally into where you want to breach.

When he's out, build a floor on the stairwell to keep anyone from going in there.

The channel will fill up, the bridge will melt, and you're done.

If you're really concerned with safety you can build out of magma-safe material but I don't like having the ramp and bridge around.  The dwarf will have plenty of time to get out, though, unless that "idiot dwarf decides to fall asleep" thing happens, so make sure you have enough beds.  Always make sure of that.

I'd had the usual "vile force of darkness" invasions where the vile force just wandered off with no actual combat.

And a forgotten beast that got killed by a stray cat.

And despite being on a volcano embark, no metals but copper and, thanks Armok, cassiterite, so we have a pretty solid bronze economy.

I was still kind of worried when we finally got a "vile force" that had beak dogs, trolls, and actually dangerous critters.

Turns out bronze weapons and armor actually get that shit done.  Thanks for your goblinite you fools!  Next time you pull this trick you're going to be facing your own steel!

Sometimes dwarves begin rhyming against each other uncontrolllably in a great cosmic harmony.

But if someone says "orange" it causes a tantrum spiral.