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1) Settle near an elven civ that's settled in a Tropical location with a high Savagery rating and wait for them to bring you a breeding pair of Giant Tigers.

2) Train Giant War Tigers

3) Giant war tigersplosion

Add the [VERMIN_CATCHER] tag into the raws for Gian Tigers (I very likely messed that tag up.  Just copy it from the domestic cat)

I've heard people say that they've increased their FPS by quite a bit by replacing all staircases with spiral ramps. This would suggest that stairs use more processing power for whatever reason.

But I have also heard people say they have had FPS increases from replacing ramps with stairs.  So I would assume that ramps are better for some forts while stairs are better for others.  One thing is for sure, as long as no dodging/fainting is going on, your dwarves will fly around the fortress at crazily efficient speeds.

If you didn't get a message about horrifying screams, you are safe.  floor it over, and only dig the parts that will not reconnect with that open tube center.  carefully mine away the others that are "normal" anb just make sure to not mine any 4x4 areas.

Maybe this incredibly rare terrain feature isn't a bug at all, but Toady's way of explaining the presences of civ-leading demons, titans, and night creatures on the surface world.

That is a very good point

That's a mildly disturbing image, but good job producing so much PREPOSTERONE.

POWERTHIRST! 

it doesnt look like a floor to me, one of the tiles is slightly different.  So i think it is just an open space square.  Dont mine out very much adamantine below the surface that comprises the actual tube.  Fortunately, you have plenty of adamantine to work with.  Make a couple adamantine mugs to trade off the first autumn so you can focus on whatever else you want.

Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on December 11, 2010, 03:05:45 pm

Quote from: Lagslayer on December 11, 2010, 03:01:57 pm

Also, I get most of the in jokes on the forums, but the one about cheese evades me. Could anyone explain this one?

On the wall is a masterful engraving of a cow cheese by Urist McStoner.

That's really all there is to say on the matter.

To elaborate, dwarves really like to engrave cheese.

As they rightly should.  Cheese is awesome.

Quote from: Biag on December 10, 2010, 05:39:05 pm

According to Heisenberg, not really. Scientific answer.

Actually, you can know a lot, it's just that there's a limit.  You can pretty easily say "it's near here going about this fast", but not any more than that.

Or you can say "It is right here but I have no frickin clue how fast its going." or  "Its going this fast.  You want to know where it is?  Don't ask me..."