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Leave the heavy metals as harmful, but dwarves should definitively not get silicosis. I find it heretical to even suggest it.

One thing I'd like to see is manure and manure spatters. It should both stink up the fortress if nobody's cleaning it up, and act as fertilizer. This gives you more incentive to 'pasture' your animals in enclosed areas (although it does raise a need for a 'pasture' zone). Some animals should be fortress-breakable, though.

I suppose you could also use this to implement dwarven excrement and sanitation systems; this would require a latrine designation. That could get complicated, overall, I suppose. But fun! (By which I mean that you'd be that much more likely to lose. Maybe an option in the init to turn off poo?)

If you're not entirely against violations of physics, I'd suggest digging a chamber at lakeside and installing a drawbridge. Hook it to a lever, breach the wall of the chamber so water flows in, and start flipping the lever (alternatively you could come up with a pressure plate system, I suppose). This destroys water on the drawbridge square, providing simulated drainage.

I'm not certain, but what might happen is that you'll get water from the second pump teleporting to the first available dry square at the end of the tunnel. This will not push items or creatures, but it will be a 'faster' flow.

This will only work if the pump's source can keep up with them, though.

I have an iron grate named Stranglesqueezes.

I get this lovely mental image of stuff getting squished through the grate with their eyes bugging out. That is awesome.

Taking this further, if you linked said lever to the gear assembly that provides it with power, you could create an on/off cycle that repeats indefinitely. Very useful for upright spike traps, bridge smashing machines, pathable pit traps...all sorts of things.

Quote from: Cogsmith on January 29, 2009, 02:12:10 pm

Step 1)Mod Giant Eagle.

Step 2)Get: Giant War Eagle

Step 3)Raise arms over head, fists clenched.

Step 4)Laugh maniacally. Now you'll show them. Show them all.

Step 5) Assign to best marksdwarf you have. Keep surrounded by other marksdwarves.

Step 6)

Step 7) PROFIT!!

It was funnier without the meme.

I've come to the conclusion that animals really aren't that great. They can't keep up with fast dwarves, and they're too vulnerable to crossbows. But a war eagle is the best you can get, I think.

Idea: Once it's trained, build a pedestal outside your entrance and assign it as a meeting zone. The eagle should be the only one who can reach it, so he'll perch atop it and stand sentry. You couldn't assign him to a dwarf, of course.

Besides, if he could write a virus that small, he deserves to enslave your computer. Very interesting.

Or you could just try one of the various heal functions floating around attached to utilities. That would probably work better than pithing all your dwarves to heal just one.