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Yeah right I stopped believing in the corpse fairy when I was like 10 years old.  Freakin kiddie stuff.
Turns out it was my parents picking up the corpses and leaving me clothes the whole time, just making up stories to maintain my "innocence" or something

I laughed for almost a minute at that and got some very funny looks.

What keeps me up at night is the question of what the kennels the elves train those animals out of are built out of.

It may not be Looney Tunes but I'm always in pursuit of a way to dismember my prisoners without killing them. I've tried putting recruits in and then unrecruiting them once they have hacked off an arm but they often will just finish the gobbo off anyways. Meanwhile, weapon traps are good at chopping of arms but they won't stop until the gobbo is dead and blocking the trap. Anyone got a method/trap for removing arms and legs but leaving the rest of the goblins in one piece?

What I'd like to see is some massive Heath-Robinson device-cum-invader trap, which spans most, if not all, of the entire fortress, involving computation of water levels, magma, supports, pressure plates, prisoners, and kittens with an overarching purpose of doing something ridiculously simple (like activating an atom smasher, or dropping a bridge, or something).

Now that would be unreasonably complicated.

Yeah, like you pull the lever and it starts a big of magma flowing. The magma hits a goblin prisoner whose clothes catch fire and he runs towards the water area. His fire turns some of the water into steam and this water change activates a pressure plate that triggers a support which blocks thousands of tons of rocks 20 z levels and a slowly filling water room. The mist knocks out a kitten who tumbles from her platform down onto a bridgapult while the water room finally fills on a pressure plate that triggers the firing of the bridgeapult. The kitten flies to a burning lignite box and runs to a booze stockpile, which explodes. The burning booze kills an entire family and drives the father insane who pulls the lever while insane to close the floodgate the siegers are using to enter the fort.

Amen to that. And some people SAVE SPAWN! What a bunch of elves.

ULTRA MEGA POINTS if you mod uranium in and make it produce nuclear miasma that gives dwarves internal injuries and then lock your 20 dwarves in with a dwarf nicknamed Captain Alexi Vostrikov and let him try to sort of the revolutions and quarantines (if you manage to mod the nuclear miasma in properly, please tell me how actually)

You can make the waterslide trap; I've seen similar things before. However, the goblins are not really sliding down the ramps but are instead being pushed by the water pressure.

Yeh, Its really only migrants who get pissy about only one type of food...


then you just edit the raws that you can EAT dwarves...

Urist McButcher Cancels Butcher Self: Butchering Self.

"So what part do ye want? I've been working on me thighs, they should nice n meaty by now. I've also been force feeding meself grain and booze. So me liver should very creamy and ready for a nice Pate."

'I'll just nip off and shoot myself, but don't worry, I'll be very humane dwarfane'