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This is what I use and so far I have never had an escape. This utilizes a small thing in animals pathing methods. *Note, all doors in the following setup must be set to tightly closed/pet-forbidden, but not locked and forbidden completely.

XXXXXXXXXXX
X.......DhX
X.......XhX
X*......XhX
XdXXXXXXXhX
Xrrrd^DhXhX
XXXXXXXhXhX
XhhhhhhhXhX
XhXXXXXdXhX
XhhhhhhhhhX
XXXXXXXXXXX

X = wall
* = drop animals here
^ = stairway (up or down doesn't matter)
. = floor
D = door (high traffic designated)
d = door (restricted traffic designated)
h = high traffic designated area
r = restricted traffic designated area
This takes advantage of the fact that animals will try to stick to lower traffic areas and avoid high traffic areas. This means that the animals will stick to the restricted doors while your dwarves use the longer path and can safely retrieve animals for butchery. Even if an animal does escape for the main enclosure, this design incorporates airlocks and secondary trapping doors to ensure that the animals do not completely escape. I have never had this design fail for me and it can hold an infinite amount of animals while still allowing them to breed and be butchered without the others escaping. As a small side effect, this design reduces the pathfinding power that it takes for the animals contained inside as all of the animals just sit at the door waiting for it to open. This means that they take very little pathfinding power and you can therefore have more animals. It may take a little work to set up and a fair amount of room, but this is the best corral design that I have ever seen and I can attest that it works completely.

I suggested something similar before (but not just for dragons, for any species). Essentially it's a simple tag in the raw text files that let you transform a creature into another creature when certain requirements are met (depending on the values in the tag). It works perfectly for things like lifecycles.

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=24740.0

Just wanted to say that all of you who like this idea go vote for it on the DF eternal suggestion voting

Wait, they block light, or do they just turn the tile to inside? Because if they block light, then I think that a lot of people will be very happy.

Yeah, but how many people are going to willingly want to expose their third grader to a civilization that is completely dependent on alcohol. At the least, the "needs alcohol to get through the work day" line needs to go.

Goblins don't have [SIEGER] because all that it does is make it so that when a civ goes to war with you, they sit around a campfire for a while before attacking you. It was determined that goblins shouldn't do this, so they don't have it.

Also does anyone know EXACTLY what standard_flesh implies, and any way I can make this completely incinerate when it catches fire

[STANDARD_FLESH] implies a flesh creature and give it certain preset values pertaining to temperature (damage, evaporating point, that sort of thing) if other ones are not provided.

And an eye is still generally hollow. I don't care how tough it is, such a hollow membrane would not offer much protection from arrows. Unless, of course, these are either steel or adamantine eyes. In which case, these creatures cannot move their eyes very fast or be upside down, else their eyes fall out from how heavy they are.

Not adamantine, if it is light enough that you can make clothes out of it and dwarves can haul it around like nothing, you could certainly have an eye that could move fast and not fall out.