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Of course, viewed from the perspective of the mountainhomes, they are emigrants.

Also all forts either die off or are abandoned, so they are conceivably migrants, depending on the breadth of your definition for 'job'.

You can dump the helmets without the barrels pretty easily, if you have a bookkeeper with high precision.  Go into stocks, then plants.  See the "Plump Helmets [8760]" sort of line?  Highlight that and type a "D".  Now, go designate a dumping area.  Probably doesn't need to be big.  Over a chasm is ideal.

Once your dwarves finish dumping, you will have no plants left.  Alternatively you could watch the count and then unmark the remainder after you get to an ideal number.

Also turn off your farms.

When reclaiming a fort, you get something to the tune of 70 military dwarves with some novice skills each.

the issue I have is that they don't come with their jobs enabled, aside from hauling, burial, and healthcare.  It's a pain in the rear to set 70 guys up to do the only things they know how to do.

Is there a fix/quicker way of doing this?

Is it persisting for a long time after you breach the pits?  If anything walling them in should help since they'll quit trying to path to dwarves.

They kept toppling my walls.  They ate everyone.

Then they ate a 70-dwarf reclaim team.

Then they ate an adventurer.

My current 70-dwarf reclaim team found a clear fort (half flooded since demons hate floodgates) and are working on sorting the bodies, and FPS went straight to hell again.  Odd, because the previous reclaim team managed to wall in the hell pits.

I thought i remember when you dig under damp stone (despite the warnings) the water flows down out of the ceiling.

3 times or so in this version I've dug under decent size ponds and no water fell anywhere. Ponds stayed the same level. (I use numbers for fluid depth)

Nah, it doesn't leak through unless you break open the ceiling.

So it's basically DF through remote desktop with (hopefully) faster rendering.

Seems interesting, and it's a heck of a project to even get this far.

I will toss in congratulations even if I don't have any specific use for it.

i ended up flooding my entire fort for various "reasons" 

and i noticed at the bottom of my pit/arena that the goblins and dogs i had caged are doing just fine, even though they're under about 6 z levels of water. they don't even have a drowning status there just completely unaffected

Yeah, this is a longstanding issue.  It's a little cheesy.  I think if they are in magmasafe cages, they stay alive under magma as well, but I'm not sure on that.

Anyway, to drown caged thingers, you need to rig a lever to open the cage once they are under.

I'd like to add that Dadam is the mightiest dwarf in the fortress right now.  He's near Legendary in Bookkeeping and Engraving, and punched a kobold hard enough to make it explode.  I put the artifact mechanism in his office - his profile reads, "He conducted a meeting in a setting worthy of legends recently."  After, "He has taken joy in slaughter recently."

Awesome.  It's always so strange how adding up numbers and counting seeds makes you into Batman.

Re: Goblins.  Good!  I'm glad that they are hostile.  That gives us something to look forward to with regards to difficulties.  It also sounds like you are having some problems with regards to the tree farm.  If it's not already a complete loss, you could always just expand the area it contains sevenfold.  That is, if the place is sealed from the water source, dig out a huge area around it and then breach the wall.  The water will pour out and equalize to (hopefully) 1/7, and then dry up pretty quickly.

There are also more sane ways of doing that, I'm sure.