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What about:

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s _  S C

Where the C is a cage trap? Then you can put the buggers on display as a pet instead of a corpse.

Then he has to sit his kid down and begin the potentially traumatizing tale of how the lad was kidna- er...adopted.

Actually, I would pit them against my soldiers.  Nothing trains you better than a scarred and grizzled greenskin who's spent 10 years in a pit with slow wooden impalement.

What about two scarred and grizzled greenskins?

Oh no, it's tasted human dwarven flesh!

Technically magma flows aren't considered actual magma, iirc. I think it's like the magma equivalent of a brook tile, which dwarves can also walk on.

That gives me an idea, actually. Dwarves sometimes attempt to fish in magma, so what if one were to actually mod in magma-dwelling creatures that can actually be caught?

So...I didn't realize that ballroom dancing involved learning the salsa, but I guess I can check that off my list of things to do before I die...

I still prefer to drop any and all interlopers into a pit over-filled with angry giant badgers.

I've recently been trying to build a 100-tile diameter sphere out of a uniform material, usually the most plentiful on the particular embark. I always fail around the completion of the first z-level, as I neglect to feed my dwarves.

The sphere would be inaccessible save for a drawbridge on the surface level linked to a clock, which would open only once every ten years. Those dwelling within the sphere would be completely cut off from the outside world, and those without it would shoulder the task of fending off invaders and trading with other races. In the exact center of the sphere would be the monarch's chambers, including rooms for their entire family, a throne room complete with exotic beasts on display in cages, and a tomb within a small pyramid. The rest of the sphere would be devoted to the duties of the mundane, with farms in the upper levels and nature preserves in the lower ones. Between them, the dwarves would live lives of luxury, each with their own smoothed bedroom complete with cabinet. Eacg dining hall would have a pit in the middle, into which kittens would rain from above, their bodies exploding on the ground below to teach the dwarves the fragility of mortal life. Artifacts would be placed in a special vault, then encased in glass boxes for all to enjoy. The catacombs would be seemingly endless, allowing for all of the dwarves to be buried in family tree like branching patterns. Finally, any space unused in a practical manner would be devoted to sprawling statue gardens, in which the dwarves may mingle at their leisure.

Even more recently, I got the idea to build a scale-replica of RWU during my four years of College. I found floor plans and a map online, so I can begin that as soon as I figure out whether even a 16 x 16 embark can hold the entire campus.