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designate the pit zone over open space.  Build the cage next to the open space.  Check the goblin's name.  Go to the pit.  Select the goblin for pitting.  Don't need to bother with disarming him.

a dump is a zone that you designate with the i key.  Check it out on magmawiki.

glass trap weapons are garbage, I don't know why i thought they might be decent.  I need to check if spiked glass balls are effective.  bronze axes and serrated discs are incredibly effective against ambushes.  Stonefall traps still work.  I had two trolls set off 3 of them, one troll had a badly wounded arm or leg, the other passed out from a bruised heart right in front of my axedwarf (perfect decapitation).  I assume the exceptional/masterwork iron and steel trap components im churning out now will work just fine.

I'm thinking about making my first line of weapon traps be steel spikes to put some early hurt on the mounts that siegers like to ride.  Also, since I've heard that you can do everything except actually kill with blunt damage, it might be a good idea to make traps mostly with blunt damage, so that the military can actually get the cleanup kills.

I'll have to check on making giant spiked silver balls.

also, word of warning.  I had a dwarf in full adam/steel get his left arm shattered by a lasher because he was wearing a breastplate instead of a mail shirt.

basically i want to make a tower or structure or prison inside the pipe, as well as put whatever else i can think of in there (glass jail, glass noble rooms, swimming pool encased in glass, etc).  Im sure this is possible since a magma pipe can be drained and eventually refills.  My question is on the method.  Can I drain the pipe into the magma sea?  im thinking if the magma sea acts as an infinite magma source, I should be able to put the pipe magma into it and then draw from it artificially to refill the pipe without actually affecting the level of the sea.  If this works, I could also build a pump stack to speed up refilling the pipe, as well as overfill it should i wish to extend the height.  The alternative option would be to dig out an artificial magma pipe, build my construction there, and then fill that from the magma sea.

update, it seems that if you build plenty of extra coffers and wait, eventually soap will get placed, resolving the issue.  So far they've stored one of the bars, so hopefully they'll do the other one soon.

Can`t you build upwards?

not if you want to have a tricked out launching platform.

I made about 20 buckets of lye and had a stockpile for just lye filled with buckets, and no barrels.  I ordered up soap through the manager and ignored about a year of error announcements.  Then suddenly, miraculously, my dwarves produced two bars of soap.  I say miraculously because there is no indication if they had actually managed to fill a barrel with lye.  Whatever worked for those two bars wasn't happening continuously because only two of my order of five were made.  Anyway, now I'm trying to get my dwarves to put the soap in my hospital so they will stop playing pass the soap.  I think the problem is that because so many need to use it or want to use it, the soap keeps getting tasked for one of the useless jobs, and so its never available for a dwarf to get the job to move it to the hospital. 

The hospital says   Soap: 0/5700 (whatever this means)

I've also got tons of available coffers in the hospital, which the dwarves have been filling with useful supplies.  I've even got them to put the soap in a stockpile inside the hospital, but that doesn't seem to help.  Any ideas on how to get them to store the soap?

On the plus side, my team of doctors fully healed a guy with three compound fractures, so that was very encouraging.  His buddy is in infinite surgery though.

so basically friendly fire.  fair enough, i was kind of hoping the spike trap gets some advantage against huge sieges or megabeasts or something.  Do they jam like regular traps?  also i've read a spike trap will hit any and everything thats on top of it when it goes, ie can spear like 20 goblins at once.  to weapon traps also do this or do they have a limit of number of attacks per 'step?'