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Some idiot walling himself out in a fb infested cavern then having the iron balls not to freak out, deconstruct the wall he'd just built, and then rebuild it from the right side.

All without being webbed, smashed and eaten. I was impressed.

Is there any damage listed in his thoughts/status other than 'arm gone'? I'm also of the mind that the absent limb being removed took all of the potentially healable wounds with it. After that, blood loss would have been the only deadly factor besides infection and he's not apparently suffering either of those.

The vomit stains too?

That is not to say I don't know but I'm curious about what the habits of the community are.

Myself, I generally use a great big single meeting hall which forms the hub of my fortress. This is usually positioned with the main staircase of my fortress running up and down through the middle of it, so my guys hang out here when they have not much to do and have reasonably short distances to go when something crops up, or they need to attend to their basic needs.

My defences are usually designed to prevent anything hostile ever reaching this room. That said, when something does disaster usually follows. Typically because the something is a titanic steel firebreather.

I don't use statue gardens or a meeting place from the well. When I tried statue gardens in my earlier days of dwarf fortress I found half my fort being locked down for ages due to parties highly irritating. Especially as it seemed to be a permanant state of affairs until I tore down the statue garden again.

Manipulating the raws so that cats catch on fire and blow into bits purely from their own bodyheat is something that will always stay with me.

Not sure if it still works like that in the current version, but you could probably get them to melt.

It makes more sense for things like saw blades, but yeah it's fairly standard for weapon traps.

Actually history was set to short.

World size was small.
Civs set to high.
Number of sites to low.
Minerals to frequent.

Everything else normal.

Recipe for dawn of the dead?

I make a regular habit of locating all three caverns and the magma sea before the end of the first summer, so I think I can add tuppance to this!

What I do is dig four pilot staircases, deeeeep down. I space them out about 20-30 blocks from my inital all purpous store room underground, for each major compass point. I usually keep going with the first tunnel until I hit magma, sealing up and diverting as needs be when I hit the caverns. Uncovering part of one can usually help me dig the others.

It might take a while depending on how many miners you have. I usually start with two and get more from immigration.

The most important step for *any* cavern exploration is -seal it back up afterwards-.

You can perminantly spy on a portion of the cavern once you've punched through the wall or the roof. Just remove the last up stair (z) and build a wall on top of the remaining downstair. You will need to make another 2 level staircase to let your miner out and your mason in. But this seals the hole. I found out the hard way that leaving these open is an invitation for any flying, firebreathing forgotten beast otherwise.