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If they don't need all 3 hearts to live you could make 1-2 of them fake hearts, would make it tougher as internal attacks would have a lesser chance of impacting the 'real' heart if there were a couple of decoys.

If I used Dwarf Companion to give him the 'invader 1' tag, that would make him permanently aggressive, but I don't know if it would make him act like a siege and leave the map after a few months.

in accordance with the polls, I made a copy of the save and set him as my fortress guard.
It turns out they either beat criminals with their bare hands or with a weapon, not sure how they choose. Also, if they kill someone, it counts as a murder. So the rest of the Fortress Guard starting trying to catch him. It was hilarious and awesome and my fort died 6 minutes later.
Most of the fortress guard were his friends, and he managed to kill enough of them to start tantrumming. Then he went berzerk.

A +perfectly agile dwarf that kills everything he touches and can break down locked doors is somewhat unstoppable.


For the original save the labyrinth idea sounds good, make it a huge underground maze spanning almost the entire z-level with various captured beasties scattered randomly throughout?
Should I drop a farmer down there with him or just drop food into a huge shaft in the middle into a food / booze stockpile for him?

ah. I'm guessing all skeletal creatures have that by default...

Made for quite a cool 'WTF?' moment though.

Found it, at long last. Mind you, that list doesn't have any of the details as to what the attacks actually do per se, but it does tell you about the descriptions. When it comes to criticals, we've got this, but nothing on BURN/HEAT/COLD.

I may now have to mod in cold-damage hammers regardless of how the tags work, simply so every now and then I can get the combat report
"The Steel IceHammer strikes PoorSap McGoblin in the Upper Body"
"It is Shattered"
Just for the sheer awesomeness of being able to shatter my foes every now and then.

Ballistae.
/GrammarNazi

Yes, yes they do. [insert movie of 12 goblins being ran through by a tree-sized arrow here]

On Giant Weapons;
The main reason I wanted oversized weaponry for them to use was because at the minute they are still using the regular default goblin weaponry, and in my mind that is 50-foot-tall goblins that are nigh-on unkillable, using weapons smaller than their toenail clippings.
Sort of like a dwarf using a toothpick as a sword. Funny mental picture though.

I recently made a race of ^{(for lack of a better word)} frost-dwarves, that were effectively immune to all cold.
Assuming that the 'cold' damage type deals damage via lowering the temperature of the part it hits, if I were to mod in some weapons that did cold damage they would therefore do no damage at all to the dwarves, but would still be able to kill enemies in an interesting manner.

In short, they would be the ultimate training weapon. No sparring injuries, but still lethal to invaders.

However, all this hinges on how heat / cold damage tags work.
Do they make something temporarily a certain temperature, ie 0?

_{Also because I'm curious.}

I remember having a few WoW dreams, mostly just of me as the actual character. I usually wake up after doing something normal, then realising 'wait...I can't do that can?' or something along those lines.
Most other dreams seem to involve Giant Mecha.

I have however had one very lucid DF dream, of me being a Dwarf in one of my fortresses (The Legendary Weapon / Armorsmith to be exact).
Rather a long dream though, I spent several Dream Hours (which is probably about 35 seconds) making a masterwork sword, then giving it to a Champion in gleaming Steel armor (fullbody plate sort of thing).
Everything was even a sort of full size, with 1 tile = about 3 metres square.
Hence the forge was essentially a small building*
Then someone shouted 'The Orcs have breached the main entrance! Everyone to Arms!'
I then ran to my forge and picked up a suit of steel armor and a (masterwork) hammer, and then ran to meet up with the other 140-or-so dwarves in the Fort, with the Military dwarves led by the champion with the sword, all in neat formation (about 20 or so of these guys), and then everyone else just in sort of rag-tag bands, or standing alone. Everyone either had a weapon or was hunched down, looking as though they were about to start a bar brawl.
Most of the Dwarves assembled were in their civilian clothes, in various states of decay, although some had leather or chain armour, and a lucky few had maybe a plate cuirass or some sort of full-face helmet.

Then the Door at the other end of the hallway burst open, and half a dozen ten-foot-tall green-skinned tusked Orcs leaped in, each wearing either no armour at all or some sort of plate-variant (covered in spiked, I think one of them had a kitten stuck on a stick attached to his shoulderpad) and wielding menacing looking instruments of doom (spiky maces, morningstars, serrated blades, that sort).

The Orcs began walking forward until nearly 80 of them were in the hallway (it was quite a wide hallway), then started jogging towards us in a rough horde, some elbowing each other to get to the front.
The Dwarves checked to see if everyone was ready, then the Champion held his sword up high and yelled something indistinct, and all the military dwarves started barrelling forward at an almighty pace, with the draftees all sprinting along beside them in a rough line.

Then, just as the Champion was about to meet blades with the Orc in the lead, a hulking monstrosity with an evil looking axe... I woke up.

My reaction to this was something along the lines of 'GODDAMN IT, NO!'
Needless to say, I was somewhat pissed upon missing out on an Epic battle for the fortress. Even if it was just a dream.

_{*Somewhat like this maybe}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muzeum_Bierkowice-kuznia_1726.JPG

EDIT: Also, in retrospect, it reminds me somewhat of the Lord of the Rings movies.

DOORS ARE VERTICAL HATCHES!

...ahem. Yes, Quite.

How would such a lever system work? Would have to be rather complex.