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I reclaimed a fortress that got all killed off, so I have a lot of bodies to get rid of. What are the pros/cons of using: A, the graveyard pile, B, coffins, and C, just dumping everything into magma? Additionally, even though human and goblin bodies don't get put in the graveyard, I still can't use their bones, right?

But if the purpose is to penetrate armor into someone's squishy body, the last thing you want (aside from something that isn't pointed at all) is a wide-angle wedge. You want something with more concentrated force, and a wedge like that would be too wide to pass through the armor much anyway. It's basically pointless (hurr).

But dwarves don't just fight goblins in armor, they also have to be able to deal with creatures twisted into this shape or that, and made of wood, stone, metal, or whatever. The 'natural' armor of magical enemies would also be, um, unexpected, I'll say. At least hypothetically, since we've given up on talking about any part of the existing game.

I always have a hard time building a good entrance to my fort. I want the bad guys to die and the good guys to move through unmolested.  Inevitably I settle on a longish corridor with the trade depot at the back, but there must be a better way. Any ideas?

The best idea I've come up with is a two-way airlock. Put one bridge in the front, two in the back, with the trade depot in the middle. One of the rear bridges lets you access the depot or outside easily, the other is a long thin corridor lined with your favorite traps you can funnel enemies through (rather than let them sit outside and kill off your traders, migrants, and wood/ect access). You could also put a fourth bridge at the end of the trap corridor to make the goblins turn around and leave through your traps again, if you don't feel like that's cheating.

EDIT: Trap plan here:


Black is the part your enemies have to take, white is an adjacent pit, the gray square is some up-stairs to get out of the area, and red is up stairs or ramp from a lower level to get back to the trap path if the enemy falls off. Now you just have to stop your dwarves from running in there themselves. You could also station dogs on little path two spaces long on the sides, to give the goblins more things to try to dodge away from.

It's also a fair bit wider, although not solidly filled in.

Do some traps actually push enemies around, or do they just jump away to dodge them?

Cave ins seem to be declared whenever any two generated features overlap, I got a "cave in" because my volcano cut across a murky pool on the top level.

Also, I thought multicore computers could just devote all their cores to the same thing if it wasn't multithreaded?

See... I've played a lot, taken several fortresses to ~20 years, and I've yet to see a tantrum spiral. Kings have died, I've unleashed demons with my military nowhere nearby... nobody gives a damn.

I agree, this is the second fortress I've made that's been 80% depopulated by goblins, after some failed artifacts left insane dwarves running around, and this time right after dwarves where dying left and right from a lack of food and dehydration (not that I was low on booze or water). I literally could not make my dwarves less happy unless I started breaking stuff myself, but that one dining hall...

Since the one thing that seems to prevent tantrum spirals is the dining hall, maybe there should be a cap for the amount of happiness any one thing can influence? For example, a royal dining hall would give up to X happiness, legendary up to Y, and so on... rather than either one adding X or Y each and every time.