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There's an easy way to deal with nobles - put a channel leading into their room filled with water and a floodgate keeping it out hooked up to a lever somewhere out of the way.  put a drainage grate in the center of the room with a lever-operated hatch covering it.  Drown the noble, open the hatch to drain it out (extra dorf points if it's pumped back into the same trap) and be ready for the next mandating-loving noble to reside in.

The problem is; I don't get goblins around Knifemurders.  Worst i get is the occasional Elf siege (Not my fault, for once.  The civ's always hated mine).  There aren't any wild creatures in the caverns either, really.  Killed them all and claimed their territory for deforesting in Cavern 3.  Cavern 2's full of magma (now).  and Cavern 1's sealed off on account of spiders and lots of webs.  That one's on the to-do list.

Aaah, i see.  Got any viable alternatives for a trap that will make it bleed, but won't kill it?

And then?  Put a cage somewhere in it's line of sight and hope it shoots webs onto it?

Oh, and what i plan to do for the "deadly blood" FB is to put it's crate in a room above the reactor - filled with spinning serrated discs and grates.

Yeah, the z-1 reactor's became something of a secondary well while i was refilling the actual well. There's also a pair of reactors at F7, though one of them's unfilled at the time of the savegame.  Those'll generally get just enough to power the stack.  I'm just about to replace the savegame with one that has the cistern drained, and the injured pulled out of the cistern bottom.

Some sort of over-under design's probably the best way to go.  I'm presently carving out a 4th layer underneath, in case a three-layer one cant be thought up/made significantly dwarfy in it's output.  It doesn't HAVE to be efficient, it's for fun.  Throw in an ugly design that requires constant fresh water flowing into it if you have one.  Hell, the savegame's saved looking at the mostly-empty cistern (I'll upload a fresh save once i get the bodies and wounded out of it.  Little mishap in the design of the room above for a potential "deadly blood" FB...)  Turns out grates won't support floors beside them over an empty chasm.  Who knew?

Catalyst, just a thought;  You might want to check the civilizations of the migrants to make sure they don't stab you in the head the moment they meet you or anything.

deadly blood would work... Try to test it on something like a pet llama, and watch. See if it's worth milking from the fb... Somehow.

I'm building a room comprised of grates and steel blade traps over the reactor chamber.  Oh I'll "milk" it alright...  If i can figure out how to cage it, first.  That's going to be quite a challenge.


edit - Oh happy day, a FB with noxious secretions has turned up (never thought I'd say THAT).  Even better, it's spawned right on the edge of the map between two trees. Anyone able to tell me how to web a cage trap?