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I want to make a catacombs that is flooded with water. (Or magma if it doesn't destroy the coffins.)

No one may disturb the rest of the dead. If you need to bury someone, you need to drain it first. I had this idea because I find the thought of completely water-filled corridors full of corpses would be a pretty sweet and unique thing to have.

Not like people need constant access there.

You could actually engineer a catacombs where you could set up a pipeline to flood tombs as needed.  Just build each individual tomb in such a way that the final act upon them is linking them up to the massive pipe of water that flows into the tombs.  Hopefully from above to avoid having to add a slab for your newly deceased witless miner.  And then watch as some witless clod decides to deposit one of the deceased's socks in that tomb and ends up flooding the entire catacomb outer halls with half the river.  Tons of fun, especially if you replace the water with magma.

rename the child the king of cats

 The last thing Dwarf Fortress needs is the Cat King.

 Amusingly, my most successful adventurer has only one tiny scar on his lower body.  It's a relic from when he was attacked by a spear-wielding lunatic and got hit in the spleen of all things.  Fortunately both the wound and the spleen healed up, and both parts remain a delicate shade of yellow on the stats screen.  It has yet to impede him, though I suppose his immune system is now a bit weaker as a result.  I wouldn't know, I've yet to have him get hit by anything dangerous, and his stats say his immune system's pretty strong.

 Presumably it works in a similar fashion to a bone crossbow.  Or a stone drum.  Or a gypsum floodgate.  Dwarves can defy the laws of physics quite casually.

 In my experience, elephants still outweigh cows... as long as you can get your hands on enough adult elephants, that is.  This is part of why tropical embarks in savage-neutral areas are so appealing.  I've had more than a few forts whose food-producing animal population consisted of at least 5 female elephants and 1 male elephant (each hand-picked for their attributes, since you end up getting elephants in droves from cage traps in tropical areas).  The yearly food supplies from butchering their calves (and freshly caught "reject fodder" elephants) often got so ludicrously ahead of necessity that I'd have a surplus 3 or 4 years' worth of prepared meals made per year.  I could easily have bought out caravans with elephant roasts alone had I not already developed a booming trade of large, serrated steel discs.

It has to be carved (appropriately enough) at a Craftsdwarf's Workshop by someone with Stone Carving enabled.

 My merry band of monster murderers is marauding across the map mutilating man-eating malevolent malcontents for many manor-bound monarchs.

 Or to put it less alliteratively, I've been slaying everything under the sun for the lords and ladies of the world.  Everyone I talk to has been utterly dumbstruck by my presence in their home for some time now.  We've killed 3 hydras, 2 dragons, 2 titans, and a ton of bandits and lesser terrors.

 I've only rarely seen a whip strike sever a body part myself.  You basically need both an unconscious opponent and a lucky strike.  And even then, your odds of success are pretty low.  In general, however, whips are utter death machines when applied directly to your target's head.  For solid hits and above, they almost always jam the skull into the brain.  I've killed more than a few monstrosities that way now, and managed to do that to 5 heads on a Hydra.