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Thanks Meph, I thought it might have something to do with it.

I'm gonna go on a wild speculative hunch here, but I've noticed several cases of my own dwarves/animals interacting with traps in a weird (fun) way. There have been a few cases of "dwarf in a cage" in my recent fort, plus 1 of my cats (chased by goblins) got instantly dismembered by one of the weapon traps, out of nowhere. Could it be that a creature dodging or being propelled towards a trap will cause the trap to not "check" whether the creature is hostile and activate? Maybe you're having a similar problem with the spears - "dodge one - into another" kind of thing. If anyone has noticed something similar, share your thoughts. In the meantime...

**Urist, grab your best armor, you're about to dance around a few spea.... I mean the Maypole, in the name of science...** 
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Injured friendlies can set off traps, as well as webbed ones. This led to some !!FUN!! when playing kobolds in masterwork one memorable time.

Like, 5 girls play this game. That's it.

You are startlingly correct.

This is the third or fourth time I've heard reference to "atom smashers" here. Can someone briefly explain the what the term refers to in DF?

Drawbridges set to open up. You lift them with a lever, then put stuff underneath you wanna get rid of- anything- and then pull the lever. It simply ceases to exist. No bones, no debris, nothing, its just not there anymore.

Sort of related, but anyone know why most of the stuff I capture in cage traps dies like 5 min later? Im trying to get an arena going and its sort of a drag. Also, unless there is a bug, its not temp thats doing it.

Also, CAN_SPEAK seems to let pets chat with your dwarves.  CAN_LEARN (and possibly SLOW_LEARNER;  I'm not sure how that tag works yet) will let them gain social skills.  So if you add those two tags to, say, dogs, you can have Legendary Liar dogs that are Superdogly Tough or whatever.

Just what we need, son of sam dwarves...

"URIST, THE NOBLES ARE IMPURE! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU MUST DO!"

Everything is going fine in my fortress, except for the perennial fire imp that decides to spawn in my living area. Its two tiles away from a magma tube, but there are is no access to the tube aside from about 5 levels up, and that has a fortification to keep the imps out. The only way into my fortress leads through the main work area, so i know he isnt just sneaking down from above. Only conclusion I can come to is that the game is spawning him in there. Playing latest Mayday set. This ever happen to anyone else?