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(figured this would be more appropriate here than derailing a DF questions thread so I copied it)....
I just realized I can make my dwarves drink venom.

TO THE LABORATORY!

Edit:
 I made a pocket world and embarked in a calm area. I didn't bother to look for helmet snake venom in the list of things to bring because I found giant cave spider venom and thought "even better!"
 I made a 1x1 pit and made a small tunnel to it. The pit was blocked off by a door so it remained a 1x1 room... the reason was because I wanted to move the barrel in and out of there.
 I tried using a bug to remove the venom from the barrel. I forbid the venom pool itself and designated the barrel for dumping and for moving to another stockpile. It didn't work ... I suppose the bug occurs when you tell the dwarves to put the barrel in the TRADE DEPOT and nowhere else. The forbidden venom gets poured out when you do this.

 So I had to wait for merchants. I left the game on and took a walk ... only to realize when I got back that I had left the autosave function on and only a month had passed. So I had to sit down and wait the rest of the year until finally merchants arrived.

 It worked. The dwarves poured the venom into the small room and left with the barrel. I locked the door before anyone could clean it up and immediately started filling in the room from above as a pond. I saw that the Z level above the pool showed that there was liquid ... WHITE liquid. I built a well over it and, sure enough, the bucket contains "water laced with giant cave spider venom"

 Now I wait ... the dwarves kept running there and pouring water into the well. so I turned off the pond option.. and now they start drinking!

 ... there are 8 units of venom-laced water in the bucket. So far 5 dwarves have drunk from it but no one is showing any symptoms of being poisoned.

 Fudge.

Edit 2: after a while the venom evaporated. oh well... atleast I got the dwarves to drink it and that's worth something.

With the new release, my dwarves could use all the protection they can get. Armor takes more metal to make and enemies are harder than ever. I've always prefered having fat dwarves because it does indeed provide a bit more natural protection. I was wondering, does anyone know how to make the dwarves fat? Do they have to eat certain things? Do they have to do nothing?

Cheese.

 Lots and lots of cheese.

as I understand it you make a 1x1 room with a upright spear trap in it. you link the trap to a lever and have a vampire go inside. you do this by drafting him and stationing him in there.

proceed to spear the everloving shit out of the vampire. then mine out the roof of the room. do NOT open and retrieve the corpse ... designate a pond and the dwarves will fill the room with water. The water will be contaminated with dwarf blood... and then you build a well on top of it.

 Any dwarf that drinks from the contaminated well will turn into a vampire. I believe this is how it's done but I have yet to do it myself.

sometimes sieges occur in rapid succession.

if kobolds manage to steal something then they might get bolder and send ambush parties. they're super weak though so not a big concern. might lose a woodcutter or a fisher or something

I tried feeding one a tiger blood barrel but she refused to touch it.

Maybe if it was dwarf blood ... :/

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Ya, i'm pretty sure this guy's a vampire.  What can I do to be sure?

well it's a not a guy ... but it IS a vampire. i'm sure of it. you can ...

1. execute her by some manner of trap
2. imprison her and throw her unwanted migrants
3. let her run around and do her thing undisturbed
4. create a well of un-life and turn EVERYONE into vampires

I'm jealous.