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How do I find caves? And at around what Z lvl are they usually at

Dig Deeper.

I am planning to kill a forgotten beast who is currently on a mass murder spree under the fortress. It has access to all cavern levels because of the pits, and its flyer ability.

It has a poison dust of which I don't know the exact effects but appears to do more damage by choking on it than the dust itself does. It also appears to heal very quickly. When trying to research the effects of its poison when writing this post, I realized that I haven't really got too much combat reports coming from it. It likely went down the second or, more likely, third cavern level because I haven't really explored those at all yet, other than a couple of accidental breaches when mining to magma. I only explored the first level, I haven't bothered with the other 2 yet.

It is a great killer, as it has been under my fort for less than a year and has killed over 200 creatures in all cavern levels with ease, including a voracious cave crawler, 2 jabberers, 2 giant cave spiders, 2 blind cave ogres, 7 cave crocodiles(which I really wanted for my army ), and many, many trogdolytes and other monsters. (Although not many crundles.)

I have three squads. The first engages with swords and the majority of the squad is legendary in all of their appropriate combat skills. The second is made of marksdwarves and don't have too much experience, although I can probably engineer the cave's layout so that my marksdwarves are completely safe in the fight and will do some pretty good damage to the FB. The last one is made of axedwarves which is a relatively new squad who I will probably not send in the fight.

Which squads should I send in, and how !!FUN!! will that be?

Make a pit to lure it in and set up a bunch of spike traps with a dwarf flipping the switch repeatedly.

This is why you get to know your dwarves!

An unlisted species you have found.

I think there was a user on the forum a year or so ago who was developing a mouse oriented UI modification. I don't remember what thread it was...or their username....and I'm to lazy to make use of the search engine on this website....but, if I remember correctly, they were making buttons out of various command and organizing the menu differently. I thought it was kinda neat, I'd never really seen someone try a UI mod on DF, but I think they got tired of keeping up with toady's updates, because they kind of stopped working on it after Pottery was added...

If the volcano is full and the game makes a check to add more lava to the tube, it will bubble and spatter.

stockpiles will help keep your food from spoiling, especially if they're in barrels, and especially if you have cats to keep the vermin out of your food.

It's pretty light.  Bins?

Magma-proof containers to protect your belongings, not to forget, 'tis lighter.