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And if you talk to him, I'm sure he'll tell you all about his family's horrific deaths and won't care.

I ended up moving my depot to where it won't have a room under it to collapse on.  Hopefully this will be a little more safe and a little less dwarfy.

So, I built a platform hovering over my trade depot supported by a pillar linked to a lever in my mayor's office.  The elves came trading with a couple boxes of rope reed cloth and my obvious reaction to their pitiful offer was to pull the lever.  This resulted in the level below the depot also caving in and knocked out a couple of innocent dogs and dwarves, so my question is:

Is there a more efficient way?

I've used Tweak to light my my dwarves' feet on fire and then douse them with water.  It puts the fire out, but they have this bizarre tendency to randomly reignite when you're not looking.

Stand next to them and press Shift + A.

You can mod in a smelter reaction to make blocks out of bones.


I built an entire fortress out of those things. 

You can build any constructions or buildings out of them, but the masonry workshop, for semi-obvious reasons, won't accept them.  I haven't tried anything with skulls, or making a statue, though.

Has anyone else noticed that, apparently, people raised by goblins still keep in touch with their original family?  I went to a goblin fortress and had a conversation along these lines:

Me: Tell me about your family.
Elf: I had a grandmother named Elfy McElf.
Elf: She was killed by You in Stupidforest.
Me: Gee, this is awkward.

The only more bizarre part being that they were totally okay with me killing their relatives. o_O

If your military dwarves are so incompetant that they'd rather walk around with trousers in their hands than use the weapons you've ordered them to use, I think they all need a drink of magma.  Or to take a vacation in a chasm.  Or a huuuuuuuuuuuge drink of water.  Or maybe have the sky fall on them.