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i think they hold less liquid than barrels, as in 10X less.

I go twelve months a year 10-dwarf squad, 7/10 on duty.  Always happy enough, unless sad from death pets, friends, babies. Frequent if not constant sparring and generally effective. 

Still goes for rock pots though...plus cavern breaching gives you more or less unlimited wood.

Nah, don't savescum, let it ride, sounds like your fortress is being terrorized by a serial killing mad jeweler.  Create dwarf batman, assign him to justice with a training axe and let them duke it out.

Installed .25, found a lovely savage site with a double aquifier. got carried away

Now after several failed attempts at piercing aquifers, and large holes in the middle of a dry tropical steppe I find myself with a sprawling mudtown, with several very Aztec ziggurats--one finished another, being built, 168 dwarves and a mayor both of whose arms have been torn off by ogres.

Judicious editing of the raws left me with tame crundles guarding the sacred entrance into the caverns, where a small outpost is being built.  There tame troglodytes are herding elk birds and having babies with illicitly passing male trogs (I only caught three females). Outside my walls, a small ogre settlement with a mudhut, behind which is the atomsmasher and a quern.  The ogres had one baby and then the mother died to goblins, it is very sad.

Someone just built a bismuth bronze mace, and I just learned how to make someone not use billon for weapon manufacture.

Yeah, I had moderate lag issues with .18, but since I got .25 it seems like I can run it with 160 dwarves with little to no issues.  I felt like lag problems got solved.

1. How many pets do you have?
2. How many dwarves do you have?
3. Do you use dfclean?
4.  Do you have other programs running in the background?

Otherwise no clue

My ultimate set-up for F.B. removal is a five chamber gauntlet, each containing a door, and two armor stands placed so the beastie stays still near the middle of the room.  The ceiling above each room is wired to collapse.  Below each chamber is an empty room, unconnected to the rest of the map (constructions help) and sealed, just in case you don't land the cave-in shot. If the cave-in fails, suction drags F.B. into the pit, where you can try another cave-in (if the trip down didn't kill them first). Gauntlet seals with a bridge, just in case you run out of cave-ins but not F.Bs

Totally scrap the whole thing if you catch a giant cave spider though

just close up, give your dwarves a breather from the outside world, train etc.  Close off the caverns for sure, for now, perhaps with a small raising bridge linked to a lever--one pull and it's just wall.