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It is a known fact that once light has touched a location in DF, it is forever deemed "outside" and "light". The underground is dark and subterranean. Therefore, it has never been touched by light. This means that either light was created after the world formed, or the world was created exactly as it was: if the dwarven world formed the same way Earth did, then everything would be "outside" and "light" because while the planet was forming, it would have been touched by the light of its star.

Thoughts?

I heard somewhere that naked dwarves can carry around cages with firey things in them without dying. But I think that was 40d.

What good is a defensive weapon that doesn't also kill all your dwarves?

Nah, even for a dwarven weapon that's a little excessive.

If you wanted magma to be involved, you could make it like this:

Level +10: platform level.
level 0: walking level.
level -1: magma level

When the platform falls, it should crush the floor of the walking level into nonexistence, making everyone fall into magma, killing them twice.

You could combine it with doors, so that when they open a door, it drains a room partially. That would be detectable by pressure plates.

In my experience, dwarves only wear clothes if they arrived wearing them, or if they're in the military. They don't actually have to do any military stuff or be on duty ever, but they have to be in a squad.

Annoyingly, no. But macros / autohotkey help a lot.

Also annoyingly, you can't designate in empty space, so if you wanted to make a huge platform extending outward, you'd have to designate it a little bit at a time.