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Anything that puts water on dorfs.  I'm working on a shower chamber, with floor grates and a vat of water that falls on the dwarves, washing the blood off them like some large delousing chamber.  Others use a small trench in front of the dining hall (or other area) with 2/7 water to cleanse their dirty masses.

I've never done it by default, but you can set a specific stockpile for it by making a custom stockpile that takes "Bars, misc" or something like that.

Current idea is for 5x5 boxes, though I'm debating the validity of a cube design.  With 5x5x5, that other 5x5x4 will be ignored because the player cannot really look up multiple Z levels.  That might be good though, if the adventurer can detect lava coming down on them.

And if we're going for non-resettable traps, which would require a regen every playthrough, then cages with creatures in them may work, since I think those will survive an abandon.

Supports disappearing would not be resettable, sadly, and thus would be single-use and not fit for my designs.

I've not messed with adventure mode much, but I assume no.

I think I'm going to go with plain old Blue and Red types, which should add to the alien appearance of the cube.  Wandering through a slate and granite countryside and come across... something Blue.

Can an adventurer dismantle a building?  I could mod in some "display stands" that house objects, and allow the adventurer to dismantle them to get at the items within.

Lethal traps are rather cheap in adventure mode, since you can't avoid them.  So, a batch of serrated steel disks would shred anyone adventurer who entered.  That's why I'm in favor of the creative, or else underpowered traps like 10x training spears.

Also, what about colors?  I'm gonna cheat this, to make infinite free reactions and give my dorfs level 20 mining by default, with no caverns or magma, so that I can chisel out a massive gaping hole, and then reconstruct it from there.  As long as I'm cheating for free stone, do I want to use color-codings like "microcline" or should I go for more generic stone simply named "blue" so that anyone looking will see "A smooth blue wall"?  Likely to include special weapon materials, like a very light, flimsy metal for spear traps that won't immediately kill someone, or very soft stone for the stonefall traps (though I want to avoid using any trap that cannot be reset mechanically).

For that matter, what persists in adventure mode?  Can I use a magma pump stack and have it still operate in adventure mode?  Can an adventurer use levers?  Is there any way to place weapons or armor at specific locations for the adventurer to find, or are they strewn randomly at fortress abandon?

Not according to Firefox either.  Dwarfs is a word though.  Fishes is also.

Are we talking about an Adventure-friendly cube?  Should I avoid explicitly lethal traps like weapon traps and stonefalls, in favor of more creative traps like lava falls and relocating doors?