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The standard thing people say when asked about animal control is that they throw them in cages to prevent breeding. AFAIK this has been standard for a long time. Lately I have been leaving all my animals outside to roam the countryside and thwart thieves, ambushes ect... I don't have to worry about FPS because I've been playing with immigration turned off. In my current fort the animals roamed into the volcano and some fire imps came out and threw fire at them, as to be expected. What I didn't expect was the massive grass fire that followed leaving me with a wealth of bones to collect.

I have an idea to industrialize this grass-fire bone harvest, but it would help to know a few things. If one digs a deep pit, will grass grow there? if so the production located 'underground' in a deep pit. Otherwise it would have to be located above ground. In either case what I propose is this:

Make a set of two rooms of some size, and throw all your 'spare' animals in there. Periodically leak a little lava into one room to set it ablaze and kill all the animals. Then you collect the bones, rinse repeat.

Thoughts?

I have been thinking about some more creative and fun defense systems, as weapon traps, stone fall traps and atom smashers are boring. I have a few questions concerning the feasibility of several of my ideas...

1. Does the expansion of pressurized water push objects, and how far if so? I have done one experiment of my own however it was somewhat inconclusive.

2. Will flowing water carry stones? Ive read in various places that high water (but not 7) will carry heavy objects, however I have not seen anything specific to carrying stones.

3. Will falling stones hit and harm creatures? This is rather important, and I have not seen anything related anywhere besides a reference to dwarves catching pets droped out of a floating fortress.

The only thing that I seem to have confirmed is that pressurized water expansion does not push creatures(or at least not very far) which ruined my plans for a water cannon to simply blow enemies off a cliff with a pressurized water blast.