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This calls for !!SCIENCE!!

We've all seen kittens to incredible things, but this just took my cake (which is a lie anyway)

Our resident lilkitty chased six hoary marmots through my bludgeon-of-doom silver mace/hammer barrage, netting me some badly needed bones and hides.  =D

Testing does show adamantine in the arena is about as useful as wood.

Which is better, assuming equal quality and material?

Warhammer vs. Mace
Bolt vs. Arrow
Robe vs. Cloak

Pig Tail  vs. Rope Reed vs. Cave Spider Silk?

And what are the top5 metals for bolts?

How should I?

A)  Prepare a magma 'SCREW THE WORLD!' device
B)  Breach HFS
C)  Catsplosion (FPS death)
D)  Mass Dwarven Suicide Chamber
E)  Burning lignite bins + Overworld Map
F)  Give everyone a pet alligator.
G)  Last Dwarf Standing super-survivor arena
H)  Mass Artifact/Masterwork destruction
I)  Cave the entire map down into the magma sea
J)  Prepare a REAL goblin siege, with 100+ goblins, 20+ trolls, and various mounts unleashed behind my defenses and see how far my traps can go?  (Armok's favorite, i'm sure.)
K)  Variation of J.  Goblin Supersiege vs. The Clown Aramada?
L)  Get the worst noble possible (though selective magma-ing) and attempt to have all my dwarves jailed at once?
M)  Forgotten Beast Blood Sauna?
N)  Prepare a ginormous dwarf-launching bridge and fling everyone in random directions
O)  Use Runesmith to blind all dwarves and see just how they fare
P)  'Bad King', specially isolate a very demanding Forgotten Beast Adamantine King to where dwarves can come 'serve' him but he cannot escape the fort
Q)  The Dwarflander, drops dwarves from 3 z-levels with no medical intervention, allowing only those who survive to continue
R)  Go Hippy, stop eating meat, using wood, metal, and farming and live off the land-  and on the land
S)  How I Make Babby, kill all female dwarves and let them age to death
T)  Vomitorium, force every dwarf to cave adaptation then lock them in a bright, shiny room with food and booze for a lifetime and see how long they last (without beds)
U)  Hazardous Workplace, put an automated upright spike (menacing spike) trap behind the door of every workshop and watch OSHA have a fit
V)  Aquadwarves, dump them into 4/7 water labyrinth with a few breathing spots lined with traps and carp venemous water monsters, and see if anyone survives?
W)  Yggdrasil, attempt to build a 50 z-story tree (out of wood, of course) and survive the elven hypocritical ambushes
X)  Dead Weight, attempt to replace EVERYTHING possible with lead, and watch my dwarves crawl to a halt.  Also, no booze.
Y)  We're All Mad Here, use Runesmith to force all but one dwarf into a strange mood at once.
Z)  D'oh, make everyone a miner and cause them all to die by digging into something unintelligent.

D FOR DWARF)  Build a 'Dwarven Laboratory' and cage all manner of horrific beastiest, for !!SCIENCE!!.  Nothing can possibly go wrong, unless that janitor accidentally pulls the 'off' switch on the 10 megaton ectoplasmic containment unit.  (Bonus for Doom references)

I got a dorf with a wierd food preference.  Anyone know what it means?



(Also, on an unrelated note, WAR GRIZZLY BEARS GOOOOO!  Dwarf Fortress has just acheived a new level of awesome.)

I'm hoping to catch turtles, not Alligators.  Which are a major problem on this map.

Can alligators bust through grates?  And if not, can you fish through them?

Nope, he has no listed flaws in fact.

I finally gave up after two years of him being on break.  Too much work to train someone else up to that, and i'm not very happy with the fort anyway.

Now I started another, but the FPS is sinking alarmingly fast.  *Sigh*  One day... ONE day... the perfect fort will be mine.