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So if I got this correctly; concensus on triggering trances seems to be an encounter with multiple enemies--as such couldn't one set up a militia staging area with a kind of reverse-puppy bomb--say dumping 50 untamed mole rats into a single tile, a few windows away from the militia?  X5 combat multiplier is pretty damn good, and I like the idea of a dwarven *2-minutes of hate chamber* a la "1984".

I had an amber scarab with deadly dust that fortunately only caused sleep a few ticks after exposure for, shall we say, long enough. Luckily I tested it by tossing goblins at it, so I had a pretty good sense of how long the militia should have before sleep kicks in, and was all ready to bring three squads one after the other. Instead the scarab lost its head to a fast drawing dwarf (literally the 1st strike in the combat log--and except for one leg the scarab was all red--broken everything--it had been eating goblins for two years before I let it see a dwarf).

I definitely had an F.B. destroy a hatch from below, so I think that got fixed.

Hitting tab expands the screen enough to read the macaque gear.

Try building a row of cave-in-traps.  Those work great--build as many kill rooms as you have beasts, plus or minus one--I build square rooms 3x3, line the edge of each room with armor stands, put a chain and an animal at the entrance to the cavern and hollow out an identical chamber beneath and above.  Set up all above chambers with supports wired to individual levers, ready to cave-in.  All below chambers are totally sealed-off and function only to create suction. FB slow done to deal with puppy, slow down longer to deal with the armor stands giving you plenty of time to droll a single tile near it, if the blow doesn't kill it, the suction will trap it right below the next cave-in you send.

I tend to inhabit one cavern and take the forgotten beasts there as they come (finger crossed, whispering "no deadly dust" into the monitor), and put cave-ins lined with rows of armors stands and a puppy or two near the openings in the other.  Also fun--wallingg off an area in the cavern, but not from the rest of the cavern, only from the edge of the map (this is easy with a natural island in a flooded cavern) and dropping goblins in.  Investigate effects of individual rot with convenient test subjects--they even get lucky and kill one sometimes (when their legs and arms don't all break from the fall).

C'mon crundles are annoying?? There is nothing like having Urist mcFarmer rip a few to pieces with his bare hands, as a newly drafted member of a temporary militia, then go back to farming a field fertilized with crundle bodyparts

I explained it to my art school friends as high modernism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malevich.black-square.jpg  About the same idea with the ASCII