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Personally I'd throw them all into a single race as castes and have the only male/female caste as a machine creature.

I think a better idea is to put them in to a few different main creatures and entities, organized by difficulty. So first you'd get attacked by sectoids and floaters, then snakemen, then mutons and ethereals. It would put more variety in to their sieges and give you a sense of progression, too. Just give all of the entities [BABYSNATCHER] or something and they should all get along.

Terror units could be implemented as castes of the main creatures, too, though less common. Not sure how you could implement cyberdiscs, though. I guess we'll have to wait to see how far the limits of interactions can be pushed.

Also, I modded in an "Raw Elerium" as a gem, since I couldn't think of a way to make invaders carry it with them... and I didn't want something silly happening like "elerium-115 maces".

In addition to this, you could have a caste of each alien (say, maybe 1 in 5) have the following:

[ITEMCORPSE:SMALLGEM:INORGANIC:RAW_ELERIUM] (substitute last part with whatever you titled the elerium)
which would make them drop a piece of it on death instead of a corpse.

If you need any more help, just ask. This could be really interesting.

I mostly meant things that are genuinely savage/evil/prone to rage/like fighting/etc. I consider the actions of the mammoth to be in self-defense, though, especially the one that was already bleeding and throwing up.

There's a drawbridge and at least the five or so soldiers I set in to a squad and I think Jilladilla made arms and armor for them. We could be worse off.

Started a fort in Genesis yesterday on a glacier with the intention of making a huge spire of ice rising from the ground for nobles to live in, complete with forced military or mining conscription and iron-fisted law enforcement.

I got a bit bored while the miners were digging away the ice we'd need and decided to send Vabok Daggerwound, the hammerdwarf and designated peacekeeper, to beat up a mammoth that a hunter had left vomiting and stunned by the entrance. Somehow the mammoth woke up the second Vabok arrived and beat her within an inch of her life, shattering most of her ribs and piercing some important organs. I had actually embarked with a skilled doctor, for once, so a hasty hospital was set up and Iton Razorpapers took a look at Vabok. Due to being in a frozen wasteland, though, there was no water to clean with (both of the cavern layers that the miners hurriedly looked through were completely dry) so not much could be done for poor Vabok and she died of dehydration shortly.

Apparently, the hunter Ezum Strengthpaddle had been good friends with Vabok and wasn't happy with her death. Fitting of her personality ("she is in a constant state of internal rage"), she started several "fist fights" with the other dwarves by smashing them senselessly with her (copper crossbow) until nothing her size was left to beat up. She ended up going berserk, taking on one of the migrating mammoths and getting crushed under its massive feet.

And that's how I lost an entire fortress before the first migrant wave without any invaders or malicious wildlife.

That was great, yeah. Somewhat surprised that we haven't been attacked by the bog trolls yet.

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Should be a colon, not an underscore.

Ominous!

Possibly showing solidarity with other websites doing blackouts today?

You'll need to add [ADVENTURE_MODE_ENABLED] to use it in adv mode, I'm pretty sure that [PERMITTED_REACTION:x] just concerns fortress mode.
May have to remove the BUILDING tag, too.