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this problem really stems from the simple fact that the game is not finished.  You spend the first two or three years working the fort up to self sufficiency and when you reach that point where you are not struggling to survive anymore, you need to start engineering your own fun.  If, at any point, the game becomes complete, there will be many things you could do once you reach this point in a fort, like diplomacy, military campaigning, organized revolts, smarter sieges, ect.  For now, you need to, perhaps, embark somewhere challenging, where it will be a constant effort to find a source of water while fighting off yetis, or something.   Or you may wish to set goals for yourself, mega projects among them, but also things like making a fort without traps or  building a treasure room with renewable magma waterfalls; the only thing keeping you from enjoying the game at its current state is a lack of imagination.

great, did derm get a trip to the hospital?
I would very much like to do my actual job

sometimes you get a titan who has layers of fat or is muscular or large.  the description of the creature can usually help you gauge the difficulty.

"Unpleasant for an elf, maybe!  Crawling in the dirt, me lass, is for those who can't dig.  Us, dwarves, have kinship... NAY!, mastery over the very ground which shuts yer kind out!  We reap the bounties of the world below, while you 'nd yer dainty li'le flower pickers skip 'round in yer meadows!  Bah, we beat that thing, all right, the DWARVEN way.  I doubt there's much down there we can't handle OUR way.  'Nd your wooden weapons, 'good enough for goblins', well that's the reason we whoop the goblin's arses every chance we git!  At least THEY are warriors!  Now don't be ungrateful, you light lunged, beardless whelp!  Not a scratch to any of our men, thanks to what?  Elvish wish-wash about 'pressure points'? NO!  All we need is a steady arm and a strong hammer to get things done."

oh no!  I don't know if I can hold up so many prejudices at once D:
we'll see.

and this alarm could span across several squares, right?
that way, I could keep a nice bridged entrance without having to airlock and make it pointless!
of course, when the alarm is tripped, it can't be replaced until all hostiles are gone from the map.  if it needs replacing at all.

I have no doubt that it has been tried and DF crashed because the fps dropped from 100 to 0 faster then a lead kite drops from a windless sky.
but feel free to try for yourself!

I can't wait for this
coupled with the riding animal addition
watching a dwarf ride into battle astride a giant cave spider decked out in adamantium
that's crazy