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What happens if the embark site is on an island, especially if it's far away from some kind of mainland? Will the dwarves just guide the wagon(s) into the water to their immediate deaths, since boats don't exist yet in DF?

fall over

China

I massacred an entire fortress, and I returned after some vault diving (through the death-defying magic of DFhack) and now there are dwarf and goblin corpses and their clothes stuck in the walls. Bizarrely, nothing else was shifted into a wall.

hand up the bum

Someone much more dedicated than I am could turn that slip-and-fall mechanic into an overpowered trap. See, fall damage is proportional to the density of the material that collides with your victim; the denser the material, the greater the damage. Presumably, ramps/stairs made out of platinum bars would spell instant death for your enemies if they slipped. How you'd go about doing that without causing the deaths of 90% of your dwarves in the process is an exercise left to the reader.

beaten to death by granite staircase

All rock is living, and every 5000 ticks, a random thing made out of rock will suddenly reanimate and fight your dwarves. It's like The Earth Strikes Back, but somehow even more hardcore.

Even worse/better, these new and improved animal people will work as substitutes for the animal they're dressing up as for the purposes of making a zoo. *pukes*

heap