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Yea, when I embarked on a sinister glacier I just brought a dedicated hammerdwarf and a unit of silver nuggets for his hammer and everything went peachy.

Until I sent him to try his luck against an ambush of goblin axemen. That didn't go well.

One of my recent fortresses had a long bridge covered in green glass serrated disc traps. Every time a siege would come along, the traps would do their job, but in an odd way; they'd be almost entirely ineffective, but due to every trap getting 30 attacks for every step on it, and the bridge being across a volcano, most of the enemies ended up either falling into the magma sea or with a brain full of skull. Every troll that tried to remove the weapon traps ended up with broken (but not removed) hands and wrists.

Infections *might* heal. It depends on the dwarf and a lot of luck. I've had a couple dwarves completely heal their infections, many die from them, some even months after leaving the hospital, and one or two just carried it around like a rhino lizard without a care in the world.

I'd give it to my worst axedwarf as incentive.

"Alright, here's Helltooth... Harborfence... Urist, come get GenericBlade... and you. Welcome to the Danger Room. First timers get good ol' Ballswallowed. Have fun and try not to take off your own toe.

My goodness. That's just too comical. I can see it now.

The snatcher has almost reached his prize. The young dwarf is oblivious, as are the rest of its bearded kin. He's been too careful to let this go now. The tower will sing of his capture over mulled cider this evening. He can already taste it.

He readies his bag beneath his cloak, and reaches out, slowly at first, but anticipation forces his hand. He lunges!

"Oooh, pwat'num!"

Just as the snatcher's hand would close on the dwarflet's mouth, it instead claws at empty air as its target now searches the ground for the shiny pebble that had caught its eye. The snatcher cannot stop himself now; momentum has him in its own grasp, It seems to happen in slow motion, the child on the ground, the bag empty in the snatcher's hand, the wall coming to meet his face. Failure settles in his cheek as a dull ache, and a low groan escapes his fanged mouth.

Suddenly, the child shrieks! The goblin's utterance was heard, and his cover blown! He looks for an escape, only to find every possible avenue blocked by angry dwarves in chainmail, hefting axes and maces. Two words fall through the snatcher's lips before the militia descend upon him, gibberish to any dwarf.

"Mulled cider..."

Reading the Development page may help.
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That's odd. Are you certain that its coffin has not been disturbed?

Quote from: VerdantSF on December 16, 2010, 07:39:17 pm

Is there an option that allows dwarves to continually mine away at a designated stone type in a vein?  There has to be a better way than clicking on each adjacent bit of hematite I see.

DFHack has a tool called dfvdig. To use this tool, you go into the designation cursor ingame, scroll over one tile of a vein you want dug out, then alt-tab to another window, run dfvdig, and then hit enter. The tool will have instantly designated the entire vein for you.

This is more or less the only option, but it is also the best. Just be careful about using it near known water sources (such as rivers), as it does not discriminate against damp stone. (Unrevealed water sources will be safe enough as the digging designation will be canceled once the miner finds the stone.