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I thought water only froze if it was listed as an outside tile (Open air or with a floor overhead).

If that is the case I need a way to toggle that status. I'm pretty sure water with a floor overhead doesn't freeze so there must be something I can use to get that effect.

I was playing on a frozen map when it occured to me that I could actually have running water (due to magma) and pump it into my entrance tunnel where it stayed liquid. (clearly I was low enough down for that). However I'm pretty sure if I open that tunnel to the air it would all freeze.

So here is my defence plan.

First off a line of pressure plates at the entrance which trigger a gear connected to a pump to fill a square of water. This square of water is on other plate and so produces an always on signal once any hostile triggers the entrance no matter that it'll flicker on and off as people travel over it.

This second plate will be connected to another gear/pump system or maybe just a flood gate which will fill a small room, time to allow hostiles to get a fair distance down the hall way. Once that is full a 7/7 plate will open a gate shifting all that water into the hall way.

As the hallway is ramped at both ends it will fill up to 7/7 quickly at which point a plate at just off the far end of the hall, which is covered by a roof, triggers both a delay pump/room combination and the trapdoors/bridge/whatever that covers the hallway. All the water then freezes killing the hostiles.

Once the last delay pump/room is full it triggers magma to fill the a hall below the hallway and a floodgate to drain out the water, finally this magma is allowed to drain as well and the trap is reset.

Does anyone see any major flaws in this, other than the fact I will obviously miss something and end up pumping magma into my living quarters or something.

Third option is to phone up the company and whine untill they give in.

At the price it costs these days it would be cheaper to get a new one

I do remember he said he stopped the world gen at 50 so that we would hopefully have more megabeasts.  He's a nutcase.  

best way to do taht is up all the megabeasts to size 200 for generation, worlds will gen to year 1050 by default then and be more developed too. Oh do remember to change it back before playing though, otherwise it gets painful.

what counts as soon pandarsenic?

Tasty Bagger 288, we need to be able to build that thing in df for sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
http://www.rathergood.com/bagger288

The Zaniah scouts will explore J9 to the south and expand their fishing and produce concerns to this watery territory.

A small group of worshipers from the shrine will spread around our island, spreading the word of Keelat who they claim protected us from a hurricane spotted off shore.

pets won't path through forbidden doors either.

But having your dwarf with pets pass through a non-pet-passable door works well enough to seperate them, then it's an easily matter to kill off the pet.

One way is to have a short dead end corridor with a non-pet-passable door and a bridge crushing trap on exit side and a level that activates on the dead end side. That way the owner will trigger the trap to kill the pet, not very automated though.

You can automate the killing by having short paths between common areas which are non-pet-passable and long paths which are deadly.