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The idea to have your useful dwarves imprisoned only because they "violated a production mandate" horrifies me.

Why do you even appoint a sheriff at all?

You want everything extinct?

Make a tiny or pocket region or island. Let the word_gen run to year 1000 or so. The titans should've taken care of everything for you by then.

You could also build a support over their burrow, then construct a bunch of artificial floor tiles on top of that, disconnect it from any supporting walls, and pull the lever that you connected to the support.

I found that to be the most efficient way to deal with my immigration waves so far because there was no clutter left which my dwarves would've carried into the fortress to litter up the stockpiles.

Also the funniest.

The issue with your suggestion is of course that it requires more time to get the magma up to that murky pool than the default amount of plump helmets and prepared fly brains will last. And the booze might even run out faster.

Also, I didn't really get any conclusive results from magma+ice reactions when I once poured a volcano onto a frozen ocean to get some water. It just went back to being frozen randomly. 

Nonono, ignore this "you need a great meeting hall and a statue garden" nonsense.

What you really need to get them to socialize fast is lack of work for the little buggers so that they hang around at the meeting spot, and a meeting spot. Yes, a meeting spot. Make a zone of 1x1 tiles somewhere. Declare it as your one and only meeting zone (i-m). All of them and the dogs and cows will now be stacked on that tile and on the 8 adjacent tiles whenever they have nothing else to do. They will chat and socialize and make friends and grudges in no time.

Once they're in lover relationships, give them some more time to sort out their religious issues (which of the two gods they want to worship from now on), and then they will marry.

As a bonus, since you have no meeting hall, there will be no 2 year long marriage party afterwards.



A huge meeting hall plus statue gardens plus a well meeting hall and whatnot will occupy too much space. One lazy dwarf will sit near the well, another will sit in the dining hall, another at the meeting zone, and the last in the statue garden - that won't offer any chance for them to start relationships. Also, your cows will wander through your fortress from then on, from one meeting hall to another, and these animal migrations annoy me to no end.

Sure, they may be impressed by the quality of those tables and statues, but a good chat with a friend outweighs these good thoughts any time.



Sleeping arrangements for married couples? Your dwarves have rooms?

Nah, erm, seriously, they don't need two beds in a private room, and they don't need to sleep in the bed at the same time. Dwarven sex is all done with spores.




Instead of the tiny meeting zone (which is really the best and easiest way to get dwarf relationships going), you can also do some work with burrows. Make a small (2x2 or 3x3 tile) sized burrow, assign everyone who isn't in a lover relationship yet, name it "get it going", and wait.

Meeting zone is really easier and faster for that though.

The most painful death I've seen in DF so far must've been that Skinless Elephant Forgotten Beast who attacked the tribe of Cave Fishes (humanoid shaped with a cave fish head, wielding mostly spears.)

He was huge, the Cave Fishes were small, so most of their attacks maimed just those bodyparts of his that were actually within the reach of their spears: His feet, legs, his lower torso. His trunk was being ripped off very early on.

Unluckily for this elephant was that the surviving two of the Cave Fishes were quite resilient, as they dodged most of his stomps. And they developed amazing wrestling and dodging skills during the half an hour or so that the combat lasted, so he never really stood much of a chance in the end, even though he managed to kill one of these two after a while.

Anyway, his list of injuries covered a lot of pages of his description.

With all those broken and fractured toes, feet and legs, as well as the cracked skull, I am sure that he died a very painful death, until the last Cave Fish woman finally bashed and bruised his heart.

I'm not to sure but my guess would be that unallied units attack each other

Well, I don't know about that, but I recently had both about 4 dozen elven ambushers and a squad of goblin ambushers on the map and they co-existed peacefully.

It could of course be that they've made an alliance against my dwarves...

My suggestion for finding the demon fortress: First, find a region where you want to embark on. Make a backup of your save.

Now increase your embark area until it covers 1/4 of that screen. Embark, check your stocks for that adamantine weapon; if it's not there, kill the Dwarf Fortress process and try again until you've got the quadrant which contains the demon fortress.

You can then either try to reveal this quadrant (might take ages and freeze up your computer, I guess), or search this quadrant in the same manner as you searched the region; by splitting it into quadrants until you found the demon fortress again.

At some point, your embark screen should be small enough to actually be able to reveal the whole thing without too huge a lag, and voila, you got your location.

Now savescum to your clean backup save and embark on that spot.

All of this shouldn't take too long, really. It's probably more difficult to find a demon fortress below a suitable set of stone layers, with enough other features that you think you can't live without (like source of water, sand, flux, sedimentary...)