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it will all evaporate if less then 2/7 in any tile. I think it's 10 dwarf-drinks of water uses up 1/7 water but I won't stand behind that figure.

moving magma will melt ice one tile away so you need to have a reservoir of magma under the ice you want to melt. The magma cannot (I think) be static (all 4/7 or such) you need the moving depth numbers to keep the ice melted.

there's also the trick of using cave-ins to turn the entire under-floor layer around glowing pits into unmined candy ore. From the digging through SMR thread.

I make danger rooms, though 5x5 or 6x6 in size means that there is a lot more effort and time involved in making all the components (ten training spears per tile). Initial millitia is semi-skilled at embark and trained on defense duty or live prisoners. The danger room is only used to bring new recruits up to speed once the fort is beset by large sieges.

it's not there, not generated in world gen, check modding forum if you want to add them...

I would draw steel into a 1/2 inch rod (if I cannot into cable) set to be pulled taut at a height of 5 feet by the wieght of a partialy fallen tree. Opposite end would be secured by ground anchor. The rod/ cable should have many blades hammer-welded to it so that once the front of the charge starts to tangle in it it is released from the ground anchor so that the now falling tree will pull the bladed rod through the tangled mess of horse-flesh and men.

good times

check if the area is burrows restricted with 'w', though if the military won't go there I'ld say you have a pathing break; bad stairs or ramps or something.

Mebil's logbook: 74:

water covering

SPRING

Fire imps joined the goblins' advance. The bulk of both forces, crippled by their fall into the pit, are dispatched by axe.
A gigantic scaly bristle worm with a shell made a run at the dwarves in the caverns bunker but was shot to death from the second floor fortifications. Now Nil Ginonrovod has named his crossbow as well; Othil Agesh.
Northern incinerator cycled.
A miner died in the caverns, no-one is sure why, fewer care.
Project stockpiles are expanded again.
Some of the hydro power plants are making reduced power due to low water levels but it's not a real problem yet.
I'm a pro at felling trees now but just had to evacuate the surface ahead of arriving frogmen, tigermen, goblins and furies! All but one squad of bowgoblins died to the magma hammer until the powerplant stalled upon activation of the caldera re-fill. The last died in the pit.

SUMMER

We're working on re-filling and re-starting the powerplant.
I found the ghost of Kubuk Uzolgeshud haunting my tomb. He was crushed in last summer's bunker gate accident. Not my fault. Uzolgeshud = Oilyfortress, I hope they're not related.

The militia was sent out to wipe out the frogmen and furies on the surface. There was still some standing timber that I had to clear-cut once they were gone.
A different Mistem, now Vaboknazush, has been elected our new mayor.
Power is restored.
A denning area is dug out in which to raise the grizzly bears.
Further formations of marble are located near the magma sea and designated for mining.
Kivish was wounded in the sortie. I gave him some water, I felt good.

AUTUMN

Asob is turning yellow about this latest puzzlebox she wants. I don't think she's gonna give up on this one. The new mayor likes shields, we make 'em copper, and for silver stuff; warhammers.
Another small expansion to the power plant is started for insurance.
Pumpstacks to level 39, right near the top, scaffold to level 25, the project manages itself mostly now, my time is spent felling the remaining surface trees polluting our territory while at the same time avoiding Asob outside.
Kumil, a carpenter, is chained (finally), her children then surround and taunt her just out of reach. Breeding is a joke (unless it's war grizzly bears).

Ilral the legendary crutch-walking planter uses his skills to successfully evade a Reacher in the few remaining tight passages of the caverns until the beast was wounded by bolts and quint-sected by Kogsak.
Trading with the mountain home went well.
Crundle infestation in the caverns. Clothier Iden Bomrekmomuz is caught off guard but wearing his civilian-issue steel. He proceeds to choke-out, joint-lock and bite-and-shake disable then beat to death three of the crundles before the caverns militia could arrive. A good dwarf that one.

WINTER

Expansion and clearing of the caverns continues as do crundle and bugbat interruptions.
The medical staff is finally seeing to Kivish.
Bear-breeding is picking up.
Some new trees have come up through the snow in the west. All of my hard work clear-cutting the surface wasted! I'll re-clear the surface of them and burn the lumber to ash