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Build a bridge.

It's not as easy as you seem to think it is; waterfalls are just places that water periodically flows through. You know what? Lots of forts have places like that. I can easily see a bug from trying to fix this bug where dwarves would refuse to go through their own entrance due to the flooding chamber there. Besides, even noting that water flows through here often would require checks every time water touches something, lowering FPS, and it'd take time out of Toady's schedule. Like many things, it should be fixed eventually, but there's more important stuff to do--especially since the "workaround" (building a bridge) is simple and intuitive.

There have been a few written, back in December. I think that my "The Twelve Days of (Goblin) Christmas" would be very appropriate for this conversation.

Mostly, I limit the number of dwarves that go outside. A woodcutter, an herbalist or two, maybe some military dwarves combining training, food/leather production, and population control...nothing much. Those woodcutters start as soon as I embark, so by the time sieges come they're usually done. So, basically, the only people left outside are expendable haulers and stuff.

That's how it works in theory. In practice...

Not possible, as far as I know.

This should be in the modding subforum.

Hm. IMHO, this would add the "bad" kind of complexity--it doesn't add anything kuch to the game. Still, it's an interesting thought, I guess...

I'm not big on the "permanent deletion" idea. Maybe, instead, the game just remembers that tile X has item X, at least by item type and material, and miners have a chance of releasing each item if they mine the tile? (Assuming the item hasn't rotted or something in the meantime.) Also, we have to consider artifacts here, too.

One time, I was ambushed by some bandits and accidently attacked one of the prisoners I had brought with. Could it be something like that that happened?

Usually I sneak in, grab the slab, get spotted by the necromancer, toss my backpack closer to the entrance, and die valiently.

These towers need windows so that I can die rather than become one of the undead.