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The link contains a .rar with two exported pictures.

Post the pictures in spoilers instead, or link to them. That way we don't have to download dodgy filenames such as "Hairywhipped.rar"
and the pictures won't take up any thread-space cause you have to click them to open the picture.

Building a circular shaped arena over magma.

There will be pressure plates on the edges (unlikely to step on, but still possible) that will open the cage to a giant =)

Other plates will open holes in the floor making it possible to dodge into magma.

None of the migrants that i nicknamed "Gladiator01", "Gladiator02" are suspecting anything.. They even help with the construction

Can i temporary deactivate a pressure plate or do i have to deconstruct it?

Edit:
Also another question

Will ice always become 7/7 depth when melting no matter how much/little water froze from the beginning?
I took water from a small lake to fill some ponds, leaving tiles with 6 and 5 depth of water. the next year when the lake thawed it was all 7 depth again.
Or was it simply precipitation? (snow in my case mostly)

EVERY FUCKING INDIVIDUAL BOLTS.

I think you still have to do that in order for the marksdwarves to pick them up. At least the last stack in the bin can't be reached when I've tried.

I would like to point out that in the last spoiler..... he stabbed the troll with a sword...... in the eye.... from behind.

Haha yeah i thought about how that would look like for a while.
Either he stabbed the sword through the back of his head into the right eye, but that would probably have killed him instantly.
Or he stood behind him and reached infront of the troglodyte with the sword and stabbed towards himself so to speak.

ofc the lodging part makes it just so much more... juicy...

Here, have a diagram:

*pic*

This should explain the wall issues. Dwarf A claims Rock B, which is blocking Dwarf B who's rock is in the way of Dwarf C, who can't get his until Dwarf B gets his which he can't do because Dwarf A is a lazy ass.

It's the dwarven equivalent of a traffic jam.

If stone A is located underneath the wall-designation that needs stone B, you might have a deadlock trouble.

Or maybe they actually put the stone in the construction before trying to remove obstacles under it.. hm...

With the new combat report system in DF I have noticed some very cool/funny/neat fights but I had this one poor goblin who would just never die:


It started with a goblin siege and there was a squad of mainly hammergoblins standing just outside my already retracted bridge waiting for sunny days or something...
one of my marksdwarves fired a bolt in his leg and he started limping away.

After butchering the rest of the squad while he was slowly trying to flee I decided to send the whole marksdwarf squad to finish him off while the axelords/swordmasters cleaned up some other squads.

Before anyone could reach him he had slowly crawled to the edge of the map, only about 5 squares from the edge and freedom, leaving a long trail of blood behind him.
The first thing to reach him was a war elephant. Seeing how the goblin crawled away he decided to stop him by stomping on his legs with continous kicking.
The goblin went unconscious as his legs was smeared into a big red pancake on the grass. After a little while he actually woke up, and the first thing he sees is an elephant stomping him in the head, fracturing the skull.
This is when the first marksdwarf is in range and starts target practicing on the little fellow. He nails him a couple of times and a few seconds later
another war elephant arrives wasting no time and helps his fellow brother by stomping the legs to a now thin red film on the ground.
Would you belive it that the goblin suddenly regains consciousness AGAIN (his head actually healed to white again) and stands up...

...only to attract a war dog to the scene who starts chewing on his stomach.
Two more marksdwarves and another dog arrives to the mince-meat party. The goblin now has eight steel bolts stuck in various parts of his body but still manages to crawl 2 squares closer to the edge.
The elephants lifts him up by the teeth (wtf?) several times, while the dogs are firmly latched on to his body, shaking him around.
I decide to put him out of his misery and call one of the axe lords over who just cuts off one of his legs (if you can still call it that), but then ends it with a decapitation.

Poor Menacebuds, such willpower is hard to find


I also like this fight even though it was alot shorter. I just like how totally one-sided it was and i could really picture the scene of the fearless troglodyte in front of me


So what are your most painful deaths?
Watching stuff die in various ways is one of the main features in DF after all