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That's weird...I started a new world and played a kobold (not vanilla, D&D). Wound up in a gnome town, found houses full of !!XXpig tail fiber shoeXX!!s and stuff, as well as !!XXSo-and-so's corpseXX!!s. So, evidently, it's gnomes. They didn't burn or melt earlier, though. Weird. I'll check the homeotherm.

....Uh... I blame ghosts then.

Huh?

Get Genesis Mod and pick the Illithid race, specifically void master, they can fly naturally, and are damn near immortal, which is why you usually end up being worshipped as a god.

Awesome.

If you're tough, ambushes are just goblinite/koboldite/whateverite coming to you.

Not in this world...although I did notice some weird earlier ones...

loop path fail: <invalid goal> brute of steam,0,44,2 -> -29,59,0: Id #18371:Path Goal Seek Station:Station Mill Anywhere at -28,59,0
loop path fail: <invalid goal> flame demon,33,143,29 -> 22,152,28: Id #18403:Path Goal Seek Station:Station Mill Anywhere at 21,154,28
loop path fail: <invalid goal> serpent woman,33,143,57 -> 31,147,57: Id #18410:Path Goal Seek Station:Station Mill Anywhere at 29,146,57

I would have noticed if a brute of steam, flame demon, or serpent woman came close to my adventurer, though.

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2.) Any way to do it automatically, say by putting a pressure plate also linked up to the hatch?

Using a hatch to drop them would be problematic, since hatches open the instant the attached lever is pulled and cannot be built in the same tile as the lever. You'd have to use a retracting bridge to do it, instead, as those have a delay.

Dwarves stand on levers they pull? That'll be an issue...

Now, you might be able to make an automated migrant dropper if you had thin hallway with a pressure plate, a long retracting bridge (10 tiles long at least, maybe more) linked to the pressure plate, and a lever at the end. Tell dwarves to pull the lever, they walk over the pressure plate, triggering it, the dwarf walks onto the bridge, which suddenly disappears, then the pressure plate turns off due to its deactivation delay, which makes the bridge reappear. The lever would never actually get pulled, which means slightly less micromanagement; just profile the lever so that all of the migrants can pull it, then set it to be pulled, and one by one they'll go get dropped.

Clever!

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3.) What's the easiest way to depressurize water?

Diagonal baffles. On the level you don't want water to rise above due to pressure, but a structure like this between your pressurized water source and where you don't want pressurized water:

++=
+=+
=++

With =s as walls and +s as floors/roads. Water will pass through the diagonals, but won't carry pressure. Note that this will also greatly reduce the rate at which water flows, so you'll probably want a wider section of baffles than your actual pipes in order to keep water filling at a decent clip.

Just making sure it works.

1) two z-levels I think.
2) by having a dwarf pull a different lever attached to the hatch

1.) What would, say, five do? EDIT: Whoa...OTA, even only a lot less kills 'em...
2.) Any way to do it automatically, say by putting a pressure plate also linked up to the hatch?

EDIT: Also,
3.) What's the easiest way to depressurize water?