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I realize i can just place their cages in a room then fill the room with magma, but the catch is I'd rather not waste perfectly good cages.

Ideally, I'm looking for a situation where i can toss them into a pit already filled with magma and not bother with the hassle of draining the room of magma etc.

The wiki mentions that you can assign hostile creatures in cages to be thrown in pits, but when i try that, the escaped snatcher, goblin etc, interrupts the dwarf dwarf assigned to drag them to the pit and makes their getaway.

On a side note, is there any way to...relieve... the caged enemies of their items? Seeing as how they won't need them where they're going.

No, I'm trying that now

I'm currently on an island and im trying to get freshwater using a screw-pump.

I was fairly certain that my reservoir was entirely artificial but after filling it and creating a zone through an open space to check the salinity, the water was still salty. The walls of the reservoir on all levels were constructed and all floors were constructed as well. I have questions on what I did wrong.

Did I test the water correctly? In a room above the reservoir, I channeled out a tile where my well will go and created a zone including the open space and adjacent tiles. The fishing option lit up so I'm assuming the game recognizes there is reachable water underneath the open space, but the water source option stayed gray.

If a floor is muddied with saltwater, will it turn fresh water salty? (Parts of my reservoir were muddied from a pumping accident and I waited for all the water to evaporate)

I read on the wiki that water automatically turns salty if it passes a saltwater aquifer layer. The reservoir was built through 5 z-levels and I only mined out dacite and rhyolite, but would those count as aquifer layers since other tiles on the same z-level might be aquifers?
 
I modded the region raws to remove all aquifers, but does that affect the above question?

I think something happened to the path-finding, it seems i do have a inaccessibility problem now, but i can't figure out why since everything was just fine a few minutes ago and i haven't changed the entrance in any way since i started.

Edit: Ok i figured out the problem, my dwarves suddenly forgot how to use ramps and i say forgot because they've been using the ramp entrance since the beginning of the embark and then suddenly refused to use it.

This just messed with my entire depot/trap level since now i can't use ramps.

I'm currently trying to build an archer tower on the beach in front of my fort but for some reason, the game doesn't have stones as a building material option above ground, only wood and vice-versa.

In other words, on "outside" tiles, i can only choose wood as building materials and on "inside" tiles i can only choose stone as building materials. Also, my carpenter is trying to make beds, but the game gives me messages that I don't any logs (but i do).

I keep all my stone in a 1 tile dump (underground) and the logs are more or less scattered with a dozen or so tiles of my fort entrance (on the surface). None of the stone is forbidden and i didn't mark them all economic, none of the logs are forbidden. There's hundreds of stones in the dump and several dozen logs on the surface.

I tried restarting DF but I keep having this problem, it seems spontaneous since I built a wave breaker (walls) on the beach with stone just a few minutes earlier.
I use version 0.31.16

Does anyone know a way to turn off ocean waves? I embarked on the most amazing beach map and right now the waves aren't much of a problem, but soon the foaming effects will probably hamstring my frame rate.

My temporary solution so far is to create a sea wall along the entire coastline, but the waves crashing on the walls still generates a misting effect. 

v0.31.16