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Do trees burn in magma in 31.25 or do I have to cover my magma reservoir floor with constructed floor tiles like I did with my water reservoir?

Dig AT the water level, not below or above. Above, you will need pumps to run it. Below, water pressure will cause an instant flood. What you do is you dig right up to the water, with one tile of rock left intact. Build a drawbridge behind it and link it a lever far away, safe inside your fortress. Then, smooth and carve fortification in the final tile. Now you have a drawbridge that controls water flow without using pumps.

After that, it's just a matter of mining that 1-tile wide path to where your hospital is, but at least one z-level below it. Then, channel down from the hospital floor onto the water tunnel below and build a well over it. Additionally, consider putting a floor all along the reservoir's tunnel in order to avoid the chance that a tree will grow there and block the flow of water.

If your hospital is below the cavern water level, you still dig at water level, but later on build stairs down, up/down, and finally stairs up before resuming the tunnel. This will bring the water level down without causing instant floods caused by high water pressure.

And yes, the most reliable source of water, by far, is cavern water.

Quote from: vassock on May 05, 2011, 07:55:11 pm

Why is my weapon trap pale? Did too many goblins walk over it, setting off all 10 bronze serrated discs? How do I reset it? Do they discs disappear after being used?

It's probably covered in blood or some other fluid. DFhacks cleanmap will take care of that, and is a must for any murderous fortress that doesn't want to die a meta-death.

So how are weapon traps reloaded?

It never ceases to amaze me how much people focus on the military. You don't really need more than 1 military dwarf. Your defenses should work without a military. It's really not that hard to do.

Greaves protect all parts of the leg that low boots don't.

So low boots and greaves make high boots obsolete?

I want to try one with magma myself but its a headache to even start to plan out.

I've done it before. It's not worth it.

I have a trap corridor against enemies. However, dwarf's will naturally go there if that is the only path to something interesting outside, like fish in a lake, dropped enemy belongings, triggered traps, etc... I know I can simply create a burrow that encompasses my entire fortress, but this is very time-consuming, especially with multi-level fortress. All I want to do is forbid one little square on one floor. Doing this by forbidding a door unfortunately also causes some enemies to not see it as a path into the fortress, which is a must if they are to navigate my spiral of magma doom.