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Embarking on a tundra Necromancer's Tower.
Edit:
  The wagon spawned inside the tower.

It was cold outside, damnit! (LOL!)

Take a "hard working" dwarf, and disable **all** labors except healthcare.

He should get the "recover wounded" job.

Like cleaning, dwarves only do it when there is literally nothing else to do.

(I wish there were dedicated labors for those tasks. That way "clean" would be a D menu item, and "ambulance service" would be a medical labor.)

Construction of the necropolis project is underway.

Fortress and founded community have custom chosen names.
Site: ghostkeepers the towers of holiness
Community: the harvester of souls
Civilization: the iron of land

Construction of initial tombkeeper settlement is progressing nicely, with a population of 57, and a temporary cap of 60, with children disabled.

Embark is directly on top of a volcano, with the vent conveniently in the dead center of the embark.
5x5 embark.

The actual necropolis will be constructed in 4 additional towers surrounding the embark site, combing together to form one giant one overhead, and as high as the map will allow.

Access to the necropolis will be through the tombkeeper complex. All towers will be connected via a single extremely long corridor that leads up to the top. The topmost chamber is where the necromancer is intended to be installed.

Currently invaders are off as the complex gets constructed. Invaders will be re-enabled after the final incarnation of the tombkeeper complex and necroplis towers are ready for corpse preparation/interment.

Wish me luck!

But do zombie bees make zombie bee honey?

Hmmm....

(Will wait for dfhack and runesmith to update, then will perform sciency goodness.)

Remember to eat your plump helmets!

Saw a giant hamster.
Didn't see them in the raws.
Those things are alot nastier than I would peg a hamster for.

You have clearly never encountered ultra peepi

I have an idea...

Take your ordinary kitten fountain. You know the kind.. rains kittens onto a spike trap?

Well! Remove the spike trap.  The room where the kittens land is 1x1 tile, surrounded by 2 walls.
It has a door that leads to the landing pad from the outside. It is closed by a floodgate. Across from the floodgate, is a vertical bars wall, or a fortification. it allows another 1x1 tile room surrounded by walls to have clear view of the landing pad.  In here, we install a caged necromancer.

Now. The !fun!.

Kittens fall from above. Some die on impact. We pull a lever to release the necromancer from his cage. He sees the dead kittens, and raises them as evil killer zombie kittens. These kittens make short work of the ones that manage to survive the fall. If they fight each other from being trapped in the 1x1 room, the necro can see the corpse, and raises it again.  Critical density is therefor avoided. An infinite number of killer kittens can be stored/generated with this room.

When desired, open the floodgate and release the kittens.