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Goblins Hammergoblin hits you in the upper body with a hammer!  Critical Hit, it is asploded!  You are dead. 

Anyway, the combat system is random like that, what did the announcements say? 

The immigration system is pretty random.  Maybe it just rolled 0 migrants and gave that message because someone had died? 

Actually... migrants can see sieges and not embark, can they see ambushes in progress too? 

Magma is even more useful then normal in this case, because its sorts stuff.  Non metal (garbage) melts, while goblinite survives for recycling. 

They may harvest but they won't plant it.  Can't you just run them through a one no quality wooden spike trap until they are injured and won't ever heal? 

Build a very small 2z tower with a door as close as you can get it to the river.  Quantum stockpile some bolts there, station crossbow people on top and lock the door.  Once its cleared build fortifications around the river

Just say no to ramps.  All kinds of wierd stuff happens with them.

Right so 1) have a bunch of wood/stone to build with 2) have a bunch of extra haulers with pump operation enabled and nothing much else to do.

Mine out a huge room where you want to poke through the aquafier, on the level right above it.  Now channel out a smaller square roughly in the middle of that room, say 8x8 or so, and don't forget to make one of those tiles a stair so you can get in/out.  Now surround it with pumps set up to pump from the square you made.  Channel out the area right behind the pumps, 2 squares wide to avoid flooding.  Now when the pumps are activated the suck the water out of your little square and ram it back into the aquafier in a different spot.  Exactly how many pumps depends on size and stuff, but not every tile needs one, focus on one corner at a time if you need to.  Ok now to power the pumps ideally you want windmills or waterwheels because those are automatic but just a bunch of dorfs works fine (but keep in mind they get tired quick).  So activate as many as you can then send some dorfs down into the place and build walls around the edges.  They will cancel every time they get splashed with 2/7 of water but thats ok, just keep unsuspending the walls and use more pumps if you cant get any completed.  Keep in mind, when a wall finishes a pump right above it can't get to the water anymore, so you may need to move your pumps around a few times, unless you made them in excessive quantity.  Remember the layer right below an aquafier leaks from the ceiling so repeat the process.