Bay 12 Games Forum

The caverns aren't really there to be a constant threat to your fortress, more of something to forget about until a voracious cave crawler wanders into your fortress and eats a few peasants.

Goblin sieges will impress you a little more.

If you want full-on fight-for-your-life type action, get the Fortress Defense mod.

Someone's pet poult (baby turkey) apparently received some sort of stigmata, because it randomly bled to death. No combat reports, nothing in gamelog.txt about it beyond "Goden UgoshŠrith. Poult has bled to death", no magma or traps sitting around. Most that could have happened is it randomly got hit by a speardwarf practicing, without any combat log coming up. Any idea what happened here?

Every member of my military gets one robe, dyed dark blue.
Once they get a named kill, they receive a red one.
Once they become legendary, they are given a green one.
And finally at their death, if they have all other robes, they are to be buried with a black robe.

Because I don't have enough to micromanage.

Chances are what happened is the stone you couldn't move was one you designated for another build job; cancelling the construction/building freed up the stone to move.

When things like that happen, the only two options you have are to wait until the stone in used in its job and then un-suspend the first job, or carefully designate all your jobs in specific order to prevent this.

Large Serrated Disks. I've made several Goblin Slaughterhouses, and they work magnificently with almost any material. And I imagine the sound of a thousand buzz saws operating as they go to work.

Lately though I've been favoring water, ice, magma and gravity as trap components.

It's dead. Just lost most of a migration wave to it, but it died of bloodloss. I'm going to drag it in and butcher it. The 2 survivors shall have dragon roasts tonight.

And every night for the next three years, if you can get it butchered in time. Dragons drop a ton of meaty bits, and it's all worth 10U a pop (as opposed to boring meat like cat and goat that's worth 2U). Their families may be mutilated and the halls echo ominously, but damned if the larder isn't gonna be the best in the world!

How far up does that cliff face go. and is it all sand/soil? Whenever I see natural, sheer cliffs I always think of marksdwarves lined up just inside the cliff face ready to cover invaders in bolts as they come, so natural stone is better in my opinion than soil.

(I know it's tactically wrong, since a more curved face is ideal to increase the number of shooting spots, but I just think the image of bolts flying out of a natural cliff face, as if the mountain were protecting itself, is an awesome one.)

I'm slightly confused about the problem you're having, Kurtisk1; is it that you want to pull the animal/invader out of the cage and somewhere else, or trying to move the cage?

Moving the cage itself is easy; designate an animal stockpile somewhere you want your prisoners stored, and any filled cages will automatically be brought there (assuming there's space). I would have at least as many spare cages as active cage traps, to ensure that the traps can be reset while you deal with the current batch of trapped individuals.

Taking them out, as discussed already, is more dangerous depending on what you have. Wild animals can be tamed by someone with the Animal Trainer labor on by designating a large animal to be tamed from a Kennel; some animals and creatures cannot be tamed without a Dungeon Master, which currently doesn't function properly; this can be changed with modding.