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So i have a ton of baby chicks inside a cage, i survived the threat of chicksplosion however i was wondering if i have to let them back out in a room for them to mature into edible adults or will they mature within the cage?

from wiki "They are supernatural monsters which kidnap non-goblin civilized beings, transform them into spouses, and then mate with them to produce young"

Is this like a shotgun wedding? "you slept with my night troll daughter, now i will transform you from a bachelor to a husband!"

The idea of transforming into a spouse doesn't make much sense otherwise.

So i placed down some nest boxes and my chickens IMMEDIATELY adopted them and began laying eggs, good. I then wanted to expand the room so i deconstructed the nest boxes from under the laying hens and i moved them. I then placed them 1  by 1 in their new intended positions and i had some chickens fighting with some injuries in red. Beaks and toes. Months passed and no hen adopted a nest box. It's almost as if the nest boxes where tainted after the i engaged in temporary "indian-giving". I even tried to make a new nest box to see if it was some sort of corruption with the old ones but the chikens never adopted teh new one?

Does a chicken only have 1 adoption in it ? I seem to have broken my chickens as they are now induced into behavioral sterility.

I have a new set of migrants and one of them is a beekeeper. Should i explore beekeeping or is it either non-rewarding or to young a feature and doesn't work right to be explored now(i notice there's a bug that makes having additional beekeepers result in problems) or both?

Is there any benefit to creating rooms with high ceilings over low claustrophobic tunnels?

So i'm tryign to build an overground wall system that will funnel low threat enemies into a trap corridor and the problem is the construction is being halted a few blocks into teh process because the agent constructing it is standing in the footprint of the wall. This results in me having to cancel the building and then redo each wall segment manually. This can't be an intended design feature of Drawf Fortress as i've seen massive overground structures from other players and it's impossible to believe people are building these 1 grid unit at a time.

In addition once cancelled my drawf will come back and try to re-establish construction only to stand in the walls future position and halt it again.

Can anybody advise?

Edit

just checked teh wiki which makes this worse  "When choosing a place to stand while building a wall, dwarves will avoid standing on designated building sites. " 

This is the exact problem i'm having and so the wiki does not seem to be providing accurate information.

So i've started a game and am for the first time exploring deep. I've found a few caverns and unfortuantlely opened up a ceiling of one of them by making up/down stairs.
I understand hostiles that can fly could potentially access my fortress so i went up a few Z layers away from the opening and managed to somehow convert the Up/down stairs into an Up stairs. Is this sufficient to stop the movement of anything with flight or without?

My reasoning was the the lack of and up down would prevent anything that walks to access teh stairwell. However i'm unsure as to check for a hole and seal this up.

Can anybody advise? thanks.

I’m new and am trying to grasp the aquifer problem. The wiki has been amazing describing all other things but when it comes to the 1st solution to on the aquifer page I’m perplexed. Oh and yes I know I can hack deactivate aquifer’s
Can anybody correct me if I’m wrong but that the 1st solution deals with digging until you find a variance in the depth of an aquifer; That is an aquifer that isn’t a flat sheet with no Z conformations but folds up and down in a vertical direction giving you opportunities to exploit the drainage properties of aquifers?

2 "With an up/down stairway or channel designation, a dwarf can break through the floor of the cell beneath him. That means a dwarf can stand on top of an aquifer layer, dig an up/down stairway, and make it drain into the layer beneath it, if that layer is also an aquifer or has an open path to an aquifer layer nearby. "

Does this mean that if I have encountered damp stone I can channel down into that damp stone, destroying it, releasing it’s water, and the water will do 1 of two things 1) it will drain immediately (leaving the void with no water) because the stone/earth beneath it is also aquifereous and acts like a sponge or 2) the opening will immediately fill with water which indicates that the aquifer is only 1 tile deep, the fact it isn’t draining shows without a doubt the impermeability of the rock beneath.

Thanks. I still don’t understand the first solution but this might increase the clarity with and help me interpret how this method is done.