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Okay thanks that's more or less what I ended up with, will this cause the creature to move slower since it has more weight? or does it's own weight not effect speed?

Hey everyone I'm here looking for some help. I'm currently trying to make a new megabeast and an idea i had was to make it stronger by making its bones (and skull) made of steel instead of regular bones. I'm not sure how I would go about doing this I tried some stuff but I couldn't get it to work. Any help?

I've never been able to do it reliably, of course that's likely because my average layout has war animals following each dorf.

I;m not sure about war animals, but I know that trader's bodyguards will attack hostile enemies when you are moving them.

You can't move a wild animal or hostile further than one square without the dorf looking back, freaking out, and letting them go. You have to tame a wild animal to avoid that problem or creatively change your stockpiles.

Are you sure about this, in my current fort I drop all sorts of hostile creatures down a pit without any of my dorfs freaking out.

Statues and the like can work, if you have tons of it you can decide to use that for all your none military items. I usually take an abudant lower quality metal and use it and only it for supplying bolts to my marksdwarfs.

Or if you don't want to waste it you could always just not mine it. 

Well I have not breached it either but in my last world I kept seeing "Giant cave crab is caught in flames x20" (or something like that). So I used DFreveal and went looking for what it was, and basically it was some cave crabs that had spawned in an underground structure which were attacking clowns. On another world I used reveal and unpaused, and as soon as clowns spawned they started attacking random cave crabs in HFS. It's quite odd...

EDIT: looked in the raws and noticed this I'm not sure what impact this would have or if it would do anything, but doesn't this mean they will spawn in a cavern from level 1 to level 5 and since there is only 3 cavern's does HFS count as the fourth?

Seal off your fort from the outside.

If you want to defend it with military I would give them an arena to fight prisoners in, if they have training weapons they can get quite a bit of experience from the enemy before they are killed.