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Resting bodies of water like ponds you don't need to worry about at all. Only moving fluids have severe impact on FPS. And with these the depth should not matter a lot as i understand it.

Most of the time "Troublesome Dwarves" are nobles. These you can't draft.

Lock him in the workshop with the wife, till one of them get a makabre mood and murder the other...

There might also be existing mods that will save you the trouble of doing it your self...

I just red in some other thread about the "Rome" mod. Tho i never played it myself... The modding area might be good place to look.

it might be possible to chain them above the workshop, with the tile above the worksops center channeled out, if the chains allow movement in z-levels.

Urist cancels drinking. Struck down by a bucket.


You can place two wells on different z-levels above the same reservoire. I did not try to actually stack them yet...

If left on they own the Dwarves *allways* run the wrong way  I had multiple occasions where my Dwarf was interrupted right on the entrandce to the fort - just a few steps over the drawbridge (and the traps) from safety. And he allways runs outside...

Military Dwarves have addtional options on Squad level (Even if it's a single Dwarf, he's still a Squad).

What you want is to set his Squad to Not Chase Enemies, then station the Squad a good deal away from the enemy, moving in a straight line away from the enemy group. Once (if) you got some distance beween you and the enemy you can redirect.
It's unfortunately not 100% foolproof - i.e. if the Dwarf is already very close to the enemy (like 1 square away), he will often engage, despite the above orders. But most of the time it does work.

In this case you could also draft and trow in some of the "other" Dwarves, who you wasn't concerned about 

I have said they have the ability to bypass traps. I didn't say they allways succeed at this.