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I see. Should've googled that. But good, I like "scorpling" better than "larvae" anyway.

On a side note, capturing these pests is pretty damn hard. I thought to use children as bait, but the scorps just run away from them. I caught one by chasing it with two one-dwarf squads and funneling it into a cross made of walls with cage traps in the middle. But that takes far too long.

And the elves aren't bringing any tame ones either. Just useless monkeys.

If you have an aquifer somewhere (ocean = you do), channel out some tiles of it on the lowest level you can and put a bridge that is larger then the hole, connected to a lever.  Surround this bridge with cage traps, connect this room to the ocean and include floodgates or something to close it back off.  Basically, the aquifer acts like a singularity when the lever is pulled all the ocean water is pressurized into the aquifer, and the continuous flow should push water creatures into the cage traps which you can later collect.  I built one directly under an ocean that froze in winter, and the thing would suck up all kinds of fish and mermaids and stuff.

I like the sound of this.

Alas.. The world map SAYS I should have an aquifer, but when I dig down into the beach I can't seem to find it. The other biome is an evil sand desert, and doesn't have one either. Guess I'll have to resort to pumps instead.

If was going to name this thread "Moby Dicking", but since this is a child-friendly board..

Anyway, first embark on/near a (non-frozen) ocean. I've got two whales near the coast (and an opah, too.) Catching both would mean enough food to last for decades. But.. since dwarven engineers haven't come up with harpoons yet, how am I going to do that?

I've tried setting fishing zones near them, but that doesn't seem to work.

Probably shot its shell off. Had a similar jungle titan pop up, also a blob and with a shell, and one of axedwarves killed in a single blow. Apparently by hacking the shell in two.

Trying to build an army of giant desert scorpions. I know how to make them tameable and trainable, but I have a question about their breeding behavior.

I assume it's a simple matter of adding the [CHILD] tag in there, but:

a) is that necessary or will they breed on their own? And
b) how can I tell how large the maximum number of.. eggs/larvae will be?

This is what I added so far (say I want to have them mature in 3 years):

[CHILD:3][GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:giant scorpion larva:giant scorpion larvae]
[PET]
[TRAINABLE]

Some things like hoofs, teeth, cartilage, hair and such will never rot. You can ad the [SHELL] tag to their description in the raws so that they will be treated as, well, shells.

So I was going through my stocks today, just looking through the weapons and designating all the ones I'd 'won' off of Kobolds for melting, when I suddenly see a master-crafted adamantine short sword in there! I was intrigued! I zoomed in to its location:

In the top left corner of the swamp map (where my fortress is in the bottom right). 24 levels underground. In unrevealed rock.

Now I'm wondering, is this is a mystery I REALLY want solved?

Well if you must know all about it, go to the link below. And do keep in mind there's reason I'm putting this in spoiler tags. Even the link itself holds a spoiler.

Yeah safe channeling requires a lot of micro-management and a constant eye on the spot. It helps to have only a single miner channel at a time in the really risky areas by using burrows.