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try using a hatch.

Quote from: Deathworks on June 12, 2010, 09:11:33 am

Hi!

Quote from: Internet Kraken on June 12, 2010, 12:33:21 am

Things were going pretty well on my new ocean fort. Then my Forgemaster suddenly died. Not sure how, though I think a Kobold thief knifed him and I didn't notice. He died of thirst since I didn't have a stable water source established.
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EDIT 2: Even when putting up a well as quickly as possible, I still lose 6 dwarves. Tantrum spiral, here I come.
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Just to make sure, your well is not salt water, is it? I would expect it, given that you are at the ocean...

Deathworks

Last time i read the wiki, it said wells automatically purified any water pumped through it. I thought that hadn't changed. If it did, then my fortress has no chance.

EDIT: Just checked the wiki, and it appears you are right. I'm surprised this hasn't caused any problems yet.

I suppose some of them still got a little amout of alcohol in their rooms hidden. I recently found one of my dwarfs (a noble of course) who had stuck some 20 units in his own room it wasn't a stockpile just in containers.

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1 is this a mass grave with normal graves or just a dump. If it's a dump you can build a coffin and put place it than you can order it to be avaible for dwarfs. You could also simply replace the dump zone and dump them into magma.
2 annimals can be moved out of cages by placing them (assigning) in new cages. Link this cage to a lever/pressure plate and trigger/pull it will now be released.
3 The time needed for a new leader depends on quite a lot of things it's even passble that there are no dwarfs left out of your fortress meaning no more leaders...

You can use cage traps whereever you dwarfs get into conect with the hippo's/crocs It has the added bonus of making shure you can train them. So get a trap and kennel industry going ASAP before they breed to much. Remember if you have a lot of annimals that you are trapping you can delay the farming procces and use meat instead. 

Well I usually change the magma sea variables to in order to change the amout of Z-levels But I imagen that if you set the cave and the magma sea variabales all to a minimal you would have magma almost flooding the serface...

Well the trick would be that these spike traps would be less powerfull (the way they are now you can just conect a fast repear to the spike trap this way the need power.) Part of the trick with these traps would of course be that you have to design a system by which you can move the power over your trap system in order to make shure those 2000 power are used at the right time. Also the trick with the constanly powered traps would be that the might strike as much as 10 times while an enemy is on their tile. (Perhaps they can be toned down a bit but these traps would be very powerfull once you can actually get them).

Or you use a metalsmith forge in order to create these things. Mchanisms are under trap componements.