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Building destroyer diplomats are a bit of a problem currently. Buildings don't have a "belongs to [...]" sign, so a building is a building, no matter who built it. And building destroyers do destroy buildings, no matter what. It's somewhat random - sometimes they'll smash everything they see, sometimes the just destroy a few doors when they're to lazy to open them. Walls can not be destroyed by anything once they're finished. But if they're only partially built (where dwarves couldn't pass through anymore), building destroyers can topple them. Even the good old firey clowns from 40d could do it.

Not to forget captain Ironblood's legendary cabinet (or was it a coffer?) in Nist Akath... Yep, dwarves have a strange choice in weapons sometimes.

The standard setting is + - * / on the Numpad of your keyboard. If you're on Laptop or don't have a numpad for another reason, you'll have to rebind them (esc->key bindings or something like that)

Also this is a pretty polite forum though it's inhabited by psychopaths... nobody gets flamed except the occasional elf or noble

Won't work, though the idea seems dwarfy.

They will freak out, no matter how safe they are. As long as they can see it, they'll run. Maybe you should poke their eyes out or something... 

While we're on the subject: water and magma combining create obsidian where htey meet, but what about two pumps pointing at the same tile, one pumping magma and one water. will that one tile become obsidian? or just water or magma.

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Obsidian, as always when water and magma touch. Why would it do something else when the to liquids are pumped? 

That's what I like about DF... in other games, people would say "This landscape is totally bugged!", in DF it's "Neat, I got a river flowing through a volcano!" 

Anyway, the weirdest map I got had a major river (around 30 tiles wide) with a giant cliff on one side and completely flat tundra on the other. The high side also got a magma pipe going all the way to the top, many levels above the surface of the river. I dug a pipe from the magma to the river and made delicious roasted carp. That was back in 40d though and I lost the worldgen

Upright spike traps don't jam. They need to be connected to a lever (or pressure plate) and only do damage when the lever is pulled. It's most elegant to set up some kind of repeater (powered by water or kittens), but linking all the traps to one lever and setting it to pull->repeat is the easiest way.

But why would you want to put anything in your pit anyway? Just make it 15 levels deep and enjoy the splatter.

Magma is the dwarfiest way... you'd only need a way to drain it when all the gobbos are nice and crispy. It'll even burn all the useless stuff and only leave iron and steel items.