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But lignite and bituminous coal are economic rocks.

I ensured that my dwarves were considering them as normal rocks.  They were launching the lignite just fine before it became a fiery inferno.

I highly doubt you'd be able to fire the rocks using an adamantine catapult and lighting the rocks on fire after they are in the catapult.  I don't know if they would even be affected by the magma, and if they were the dwarves probably would refuse to launch them.

Your best bet for having a defense that is reliant on setting the world on fire is by paving the sky.  Then setting up a series of hatches and putting steel bins filled with ignited lignite on top of them.  Have designated levers and pull the appropriate ones.  Dwarven atom bombs!

Well...I tried for dwarven science, results follow:

Rocks on fire aren't considered rocks.  The dwarves won't even touch them.  I tried getting them to move the rocks to a stockpile and had the catapult set to fire at will and they wouldn't touch the burning lignite stones or the burning coal.

It doesn't look like this idea will work.  If things could get caught on fire in mid air then it would be an amazing system to have the rocks fly through a magma fall, but I'm almost 100% sure that rocks in flight essentially don't exist.

Could someone tell me where the world gen parameters are located?  I haven't fudged with them in a while and can't seem to find them...

I'm running 40d18.

I need to make the world a lot more volcanic.

You kill one or two nobles by means of an elaborate trap and suddenly your fort is a "death trap."

I'll tell you one thing, it sure as hell doesn't stop the nobles from coming back.

That is a very retarded mod, if you don't mind me saying.

But that is a very AWESOME way of, ah, sending your friends on a lovely vacation to Armok's Resort and Casino...

So I guess it kinda balances out, I guess.

To each his own I guess...

I do like how that name belongs to an elf though.  It seems fitting.

DF's initial learning curve is more like a learning cliff, essentially the game shoves you off and expects you learn how to fly before you hit the ground.

Once you do grasp what is going on though, you'll wonder why things ever seemed so complicated.  It gets interesting when you start trying to do really crazy stuff with gears, pressure plates, etc.  That's an element I haven't really grasped yet (No dwarfputers for me, yet).

if they are EXOTIC, tame or wild they need a DM to breed.

I did not know this...

Not that it really matters, I have like 40 Giant Eagles lazing around my fort.

There's a reason all my dwarves have been running around naked for the last 15 or so years.  You just can't get rid of all their junk.  Even with responsible chest/cabinet usage, clothes will eventually be everywhere.