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Interesting. What I usually do is complely cover the large ares in restricted traffic and make high traffic `roads` through them. Are you saying it`s more efficient to simply make a border of restricted traffic to seal off large areas? What about high traffic designations? How do you set those up?

Best part: The ghosts of berzerking dwarfs are very violent, and will injure/kill the remaining people.

Balls...
I just got a migration wave of around 10 dorfs (a very welcome sight). Most of them are now masons, churning out coffins. Top priority now is burial of all the corpses. Some of them are still generating miasma, so that's something else to worry about.

I have a confession. Despite playing (on and off) since 40d, I've never lost a fort to Fun. Usually, I always quit out of boredom and go play adventure mode instead. Well, it finally happened. My current fort, "Deathfloors" had finally tasted true Fun. A siege arrived and I had to face them because a tantruming dwarf had destroyed the lever that shut the floodgates of the main entrance. A whole bunch of soldiers were killed and shit hit the fan. Soon after that, everyone had a flashing red arrow, dwarf were going insane, children were going berserk and beating their parents and everything was getting destroyed. The murders/executions of berserking dwarves was the first wave of death. After that, a whole bunch more died from dehydration due to being stark raving mad (or babies having their mothers die).
Now, my population of 200+ has been reduced to 50-something (most of them children). There is barely anything left of the military, all of the industries are gone, I'm struggling to bury everyone, there is junk everywhere, THE DINING HALL IS FULL OF DEAD BABIES and overall, its not a very fun (but very Fun) time we're having over here. The only luck is that a tantruming dwarf broke a trade depot while human merchants were in it, so I kinda ended up stealing all their stuff by accident. Hopefully, that should keep my food supplies stocked while I get some new farmers.
Sooo, yeah...

The atomsmasher strikes again. I build wall around it and told dwarfs to dump stuff from above to avoid stuff like that. A child went in there for some reason and someone dropped some pants at him knocking his teeth out.

Yeah, that happens. The question is - does the picture of the artifact depict the picture of the artifact on itself. And does that picture of a picture have a picture of itself on it and does that picture of a picture of a picture...and so on.

Haven't tried this myself, but what about putting "The Attic" in the same burrow as a atomsmasher with a regular dump area under it, then assigning some dorfs to it (and give them some food and drink too, I suppose). If the burrow does not include the area where all the goblin loot is, then they would only smash the junk, right?
EDIT: Ninja'd...Anyways, you would also have to assign all the other dorfs to another burrow, so they don't come into "The Attic".

Can they access the building site from north, south, east or west? I don't think they can build from a diagonal, so if they can't stand right next to it, they will stand on top of it. That's what happened to me, anyways.

My current fort has a goddess of darkness named 'Sod Murkytwilight the Cloak of Dusk'. I dunno why, but I find that a pretty cool name.