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I have found that putting a cabinet in their bedrooms creates a special job "store owned item", where the owner of said XXpigtail sockXX will do pick it up and stuff it into the cabinet.

It might be possible to rig a 'old clothing disintegrator' with an atom smasher or fallaway floor over magma, which smashes/drops the whole cabinet, taking the filthy rags with them. Green glass cabinets would be ideal.

An interesting thing you can do, is use bridges spanning a deep pit with pressure plate activators to continually change the path into the fortress.

That is to say, the invaders have a "clear" path over the bridges and into the fortress. As they walk the path, they step on a pressure plate, which closes the way they came in (bridge goes up), and the way they were going in, but opens a new, distant route. They take that route, which actually takes them away from the fortress on the new path. There, they step on another plate, which again blocks off the way they came, and redirects them further.

By clever application of this approach, an "endless detour" can be created.

Bonus if you put serrated disc traps in the hallways they have to path through. Blocking off the exit prevents escape, progressing forward forces the detour.

I do have one teeny, niggly request for improvement....


Please consider making "clean walls/floor" a designation from the D menu. Waiting for my dwarves to stop having racus parties in the dining hall with their labors off so that they will seek out a bucket to scrub the floors of the disgusting blend of pus, ichor, and blood really torques me off.

Yes. They are dwarves. They love to party.   Their fortress looks like a bomb went off inside. I want to clean it up without resorting to dfhack. 

That's about it.

They certainly claim their fair share of nobles....

Those nobles.. they just have to pull *THE LEVER*.... can't help themselves!

Urist McPervert likes tentacle demons for their impure intentions!

[Field journal of Urist McArcheologist]
"The miners in the magma district came to me today after making a most puzzling discovery. There, in the midst of the cavern, was a curious subterene structure, that was clearly not of dwarven origin, and comprised of an unknown, indestructable, and extememly dense substan,e. Within the struture, they had discovered a masterfully fashioned shortsword made of the very legendary substance they had been seeking in that part of the magma district. Being an archeologist, was far more interested in the structure itself, being clearly of xenotic origins, and much less concerned about the material composition or geology of the cavern, or the craven looks of avaricial desire the miners showed toward the structure's curious contents.

On the walls of one section, there was a very well orchestrated motif in bas-relief, of a mutiple limbed creature performing ribauld and wild acts of hedonistic debaucheries and indecent liberties with depictions of humans, elves, and even dwarves. along the borders of this craven image were additional engraved images of those races engaging in a stunningly wide assortment of profane and perverted acts with one another, the explicitness of which is difficult to properly describe here in my journal. My basic understanding of the mural, is that the many armed creature was at some point driven deep into this fortress, and sealed up using the masterwork blade in some sort of denial ritual.

Surely this is mere superstition on the part of the ignorant ancients who created this structure, and with the consent of the baron, we have commenced the task of retrieving the blade for the glory of our settlement......"

[The rest of the journal is blank.]

I just can't help but see the "war" episode of fraggle rock unfold in my mind, with the idea of brainwashed kobold zealots....... ("this young fraggles, is a weapon!")




"The givers of the berries demand the blood of the elves!"
(In cute falsette from a dimunutive fuzzball brandishing a copper dagger)

I was thinking more along the lines of "flying shrimp".

A shrimp is an arthropod, and physiologically similar to an insect, just aquatic.

A giant mosquito (say, the size of a cigar?) Would likely be cookable like a shrimp is, as long as you don't contemplate from what creature the blood in the abdomen came from.