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...4 page siege.

Optimus Prime, please save me.

That is all.

You forgot to tell us how many dwarves you have at that moment.

Let 'em die. Death is funny.

Currently surviving solely on vermin for a challenge.

All meat is outside.

HELL YEA, STARVING!

Trappers are currently very sporadic; they will run outside to catch birds while there are rats and lizards in your food stockpile.

Add a new zone designation similar to the fishing one, so trappers may be controlled better.

BONUS SUGGESTION

Funeral shrouds to cover dead bodies. More uses for cloth since clothing is insane right now; possible tomb value bonus/rot slow?

I also theorize that since my animal stockpile is right next to the lava, they are roasting their toads and rats and other non-snakes before eating them.

Ah, the open-ended interpretation of roguelikes.

In my last fort - a backfired bear farm where bears never arrived - I discovered the joys of trapping. And, incidentally, the joys of fire snakes.

To that fortress' dwarves, you see, fire snakes were like candy. My prepared food stockpiles went practically untouched, and I had to seal off the delicious little buggers from them to keep them from being eaten.

This time, embarking at another magma pipe, fearing the incursion of Orcs (courtesy of http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=26858.0), I have decided to embark upon a grand experiment and use them as my primary source of food.

How well will it turn out? Will they eat vermin at tables? Who knows. Maybe they'll go mad. Maybe they'll set themselves on fire. Maybe eating flaming snakes raw and alive will infuse them with a burning spirit with which to fend off the new green invaders.

At any rate, I'm going to laugh at whatever happens.

Obsidian might be a bit imbalanced, as it can be found/created easily on magma maps, which in turn aren't hard to find if you're looking...

Sandstone, on the other hand, would be a perfect candidate... if it didn't appear primarily on sandy maps. I could be wrong, though.

Conglomerate (which equates to very rough, chunky sedimentary rock) would perhaps be the best way to have a millable stone for sand.