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I use DF architect. It can designate out ALOT of rooms very quickly.

Quote from: Lav on April 27, 2011, 01:38:15 am

A properly designed prison block should look like this:
Essentially, a 3x3 room surrounded by gold statues. The chain is in the center of the room, there's also a bed at the far wall, two 3x1 stockpiles for food and booze, and finally a cage where you put prisoner's favourite animal. All furniture is of masterwork quality and the floor should be engraved. :-)

I don't see anywhere for the magma to pour in or to drain.

Typically, the drain is under the booze stockpile. When the magma falls it creates a "soothing" magma mist.

Well, like I said this won't be in any sort of game, purely off the top of my head. He can bite, but legendary biter would be hard to get across. I had intended for him to come to the fortress with a caravan. But we'll see. And yes, caverns will most definately be involved.

I don't know, nibbling on a bronze collosus until it dies is INCREDIBLY dwarfy. Now i need to test this...

Also, a serious case of ADD seems to have kicked in when i wrote my last post. Ill fix that.

He should be a legendary biter, who came to the fortress along with the caravan as a guard. When the fortress arranged an "Unfortunate accident" the dwarf becomes trapped. He should have a particular love of dwarven cheese, but no clue where it comes from. The story could take him through a short dwarven trading route (You might want to look at your map for this) untill he reaches the fortress. Perhaps you could have him explore the caverns as well?

Assign you to pull the lever.

WWUD if he was attacked by Bogeymen?

Urist would proceed to strike at them with his crossbow.

What would Urist do if his kidneys were removed?

Its easier to use just embark. Its not technically a reclaim but it saves everything thats there before.

When beak dogs stalk your halls and harpies patrol your skies you don't exactly have time for slabs or the access to corpses for coffins. A way to temporarily deal with ghosts in emergencies is critical.

For example say your foots been booming for a while, but your death total has slowly been racking up due to accidents and goblin arrows. Out of nowhere a forgotten beast crawls up with paralyzing powder craws up from the depths into your city and proceeds to infect your military. You manage to put it down, but not before your entire squad is infected. Since your dwarfs cant grab the corpses due to the syndrome effects you resolve to build memorial slabs. You start to hammer them out, but theres no way you can make that many slabs in time. When one of the unhappy ghosts decides your mausoleum is the PERFECT place to rampage you realize now the !!FUN!! your in for...

Now if the effect is temporary and comes with costs/consequences you would have to be careful about using it, a sort of "Only in emergencies" use similar to "The lever" we all have. On a completly unrelated topic, it could be cool if ghosts haunted your mausoleum peacefully after being buried.