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I have an idea.  Build and obsidian tower.  Inside your magma pipe.  All the way to the bottom of it.  And have farms in it.  This obviously requires a pipe with a natural roof.

There was a thread about that a while back.  I'd post the link if I could find it.

So dwarves don't get an unhappy thought about nasty water as long as they drink from the well?

I guess my dwarves are just retarded, I have two wells.

And I do give the little guys booze... my alcohol is around 500 at the moment.  The only reason I need water is because my hunters refuse to use all of the +steel bolts+ I have laying about.  Three of them have attempted to beat a local pack of wolves to death with their crossbows.

On a happy note, the first guy that tried that is beginning to heal. His mangled leg is only broken now

Hey guys,

I'm working on getting a well/waterfall system going for my fort, and the muddy water is really starting to annoy me.  Between the muddy floors and unhappy thoughts from drinking the stuff, the project is turning out to be more trouble than its worth.  So I was wondering how to get water without it being muddy.  My current source is a brook that runs throught the bottom of my map.  I have the water running through a fairly long channel which dumps down in my resevoir.

My resevoir is all smoothed stone/wall, but the channels from the brook to the resevoir are all just dirt.

If I make a paved/walled of tunnel for the water to get from the brook to my fort (without touching the ground) with the water stay clean?

As for the problem with your goblins, build their cage in the pit, and connect it to a lever.  This way, you can pull the lever and release them remotely.  The idea for marksmen training on the other hand, might not work out.  The bronze collousi don't regenerate that fast.  You might end up just killing it.  Better to just let it out on the next goblin siege. 

This definitely is not a bump.

I'm not sure if this would work, but try having pressurized magma jetting out of a wall into the magmafall.  I'm not really sure if that's a good way to explain it either. I'll try and draw it...

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~~~~~  ~~~~P
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~=magma
==wall/channel
P=pump

This is as if you were looking at the magmafall from the front.  The pump would jet the magma at the magma fall and (maybe) create mist.

Listening to this whilst playing DF equals coolness

This reminds of of Metal Max for some reason.  Has anybody played that game?

Hmm, I recall reading something a while back about an automatic butchery...
On z-level 4 there would be a room with a pressure plate, a hatch covered hole in the floor, and a breeding pair of livestock chained next to each other.  When something stepped on the plate, the hatch would open.  The idea was, after a bunch of animals populated the room, one would step on the plate, and one would fall through the hole in the floor. Fall to its death that is.  Several z-levels below would be a butchery, and the animal would land in said butchery, where the corpse would be set to auto-butcher.

I think you could adapt the idea behind this to create a sort of wildlife pen that would automatically replenish the animal population in the area.