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That sounds like a good idea. How should I go about ordering the mass pitting of the enemys? I imagine just use [i ]-[P] on the pit and assign everything/anything that I want pitted?

Sounds like a good idea. Much faster and easier than linking cages. I think I'll create a small arena down there... The top floor can be a meeting area with weapon racks, armor stands, statues, tables, chairs, etc for people to watch. The bottom layer will be the arena with a double bridge system to allow my military dwarfs accross (double bridge so there's a midway island to stop the enemys from escaping. If I ever catch any big beasties, I might stick them down in a third area to unleash on any misbehaving arena goers.

Mmm, I actually have an idea for once. This should be fun.

He'll come back once he can pathfind to your fort.

Once I had a crossbow dorf run right up to the FB and punch it's leg off. While it was on the floor the other dwarf shot it in the head. It didn't last long.

Another time a ~8000 weight FB attacked and got shot in the head and knocked out almost instantly, while it was knocked out it took my dwarves about 20 pages of attacking his motioneless body to actually kill him. Someon cut the head clean off. I then watched the butcher drag the ~7500 weight body to the butchers and nearly die of thirst carving it. He then went back for the ~500 weight head and chopped that up too.

On a related note: When I look at my 3 wide corridors I see a lot of wasted space. Would it make sense to cover all my corridors in stockpiles, or would this decrease FPS even more?

I do this. I have wood stockpiles outside the carpenter area, certain stone stockpiles by the masonry (for example, I wanted a bunch of obsidian so I designated obsidian to be stored next to the workshop), certain ore stockpiles by my forges (if I'm smelting iron, I designate that stock pile to hematite or something).

As far as I'm aware it doesn't slow down the dwarfs, change pathfinding, change steps require, change performance, etc. In speeds on your production though as any idle dwarfs will be doing the job of carrying the required materials to your workshops as the products are being made, and the guy working the workshop only has to move a few tiles for his materials.

They do help. When you have 100+ dwarfs running about the same hallway, then yea it really does become noticeable if it's only 1 wide. Three wide allows a 'flow' of traffic with a third lane for overtaking/avoiding.

My entrances are all 1 wide to bottleneck invaders, dwarfs only go out there to collect wood. All internal corridors are at least 3 wide.

I was taking your post so seriously and you helped me understand why glass monsters are so powerful. Then got caught off guard by the dying on infection in a hospital, I lol'd a bit too loud.

I know his name and it's not in the memorial list. How do I check the overworld in fortress mode?

I have a ghostly macedwarf causing FPS issues and stuttering.

I already have about 10 slabs up and a huge room with 30 coffins in to get rid of previous ghost problems. However, I'm not entirely sure what to do about this guy... I never remember making a macedwarf so I believe he is part of the dwarven caravan (I got attacked by an FB when trading, they left in a huff). The problem is there are free coffins but no sign of the body and also no sign of this name on the engrave slab list (I have looked in it multiple times...)

I've manually checked all over the map, including in water, for his corpse. I even forbid/unforbid 'corpses' in the stock menu. Still he has not been put to rest.

Well, my most recent danger room trainee was equiped with all that and a mask, no shirt until after training, and sustained no injuries after two seasons of 10 spear per trap training.  I modded mask to be forced on all dwarf civs, because I like the idea of having masked armies.  Next world I'll likely make specific masks for my tastes, like a wolf mask so that my squad will all have steel wolf masks on.

It's all to do with luck. How fast their skills train to avoid being hit and where abouts they get hit. Your masks are most likely protecting their faces but in an unmodded scenario, you can just equip a cloak (don't ask me how it protects the face, it just does). I'm not sure if cloaks protect upper arms but seeing as how you can equip a cloak, chain mail and breastplate, I see no reason not too. I've killed two FBs with an army of 6 and none of them have sustained injuries (wearing iron, with lots of danger room training).