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Miners dug stairs into a cavern, 1-Zlevel above the floor, but also into the open air which is enough for FB's and all sorts of monstrosities to appear, apparently. Access to the caverns are blocked off by a raised bridge right now. But how do I reclaim the upper floors on the caverns and seal off that stairway leading down into that section of cavern?

Right all the FBs are fighting the, something like, 50 amphibian men, but eventually I'm going to have to go in and try to clear out the remnants to seal off the cavern.

I do have access to a volcano which goes down just below the bottom of those stairs (and exists on all Z-levels upward from there). Don't think just dumping magma is going to help. Just be lava flowing down infinitely and killing my framerate. There is an underground ocean in a cavern a couple z-levels above where the stairs start... I might mix the two? But again, need it to not last forever and I don't have free access to the area right now without confronting numerous baddies. I could mine in from above, would take forever and I might lose a miner or two to starvation first.

I'm getting people coming up in Dwarf Therapist who don't exist in game. Dwarves who aren't on my list in my fortress (not vampires that are mis-named in game, but more actual dwarves than there are). Also I keep getting a message in game about a Forgotten Beast that is no longer enraged, but that beast doesn't exist on any of the unit lists (enemy or otherwise).

Ah, one of the FBs is a webhead

There are so many wounds on one of the FB's (haven't checked the others). One out of 4 is dead. One has 4 pages of wounds (in red) and a whole page of scars (in gray). Still won't go down. Sending wave after wave.


EDIT: Two more waves and the fortress was reclaimed. Only 2 dwarves survived their resulting wounds. One of the FB's shot out a cloud of insta-rot, taking most of them. Even the survivors had miasmic wounds. One went insane and after wandering around and slaughtering all the animals left, killed the last sane dwarf. I'm waiting for him to die of thirst and the Civilization to Crumble before I Reclaim with a real team and start cleaning the mess up.

Oh geez, 1400 is where it should be? Mine is at 250... must be carrying too much.

They bob...

Did anyone know that Reclaiming d>b>c with the rectangle (pressing enter at one point, enter at another) also spans Z-levels? In other words, starting on the highest Z-level in the top-most corner of your map, initiating the claim rectangle, then going down numerous Z-levels to another corner will reclaim every item across that entire 3D space?

I just found that out ^_______^

A Forgotten Beast destroyed my fortress. If I Reclaim and it's still there, what then? Will it always be there? Do I have to into the game in adventurer mode and try to kill it?

EDIT: Make that two Forgotten Beasts...
EDIT#2: Make that 3 Forgotten Beasts........
EDIT#3: Four. Four Forgotten Beasts. I'm starting to think this is bugged.