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I have to try this now. Does it still work in 2010?

That's the trouble with blocks; the game still tracks them even when they're constructed. You can see 'em in the stocks screen.

I'm thinking of rebuilding the Parthenon in Dwarf Fortress. Your typical megaproject. It's a beautiful structure, so, heck, why not?

The thing that worries me is the possibility of the FPS going too low, because of all those marble blocks stacked up and having to be tracked by the game. I've had a few thousand blocks built before, and it always slowed things down to ~60 or so. This would be more than that.

Anybody got experience with this kind of thing? Any way to deal with the problems of FPS going too low?

Also: No, I'm not turning invasions off; if the ancient Greeks had to deal with invasions while building stuff, why not me? I figured a big outside wall would do the trick; but of course there are fliers to deal with. Squads of crossbow dwarves for those, I guess. I don't have any experience with shooting across z-levels, though; how well does that work? Usually I just station them behind fortifications near the entrance, the flying enemies enter and are confined to one z-level by a ceiling; and it's like shooting fish in a barrel, but I'm considering sticking some towers on that wall and putting the archers behind fortifications in there.

Multiple z-level archery... does it work? Any problems to watch out for?

Also: Can someone direct me to a guide that would let me generate a world where I can get an embark site with enough marble (or similar light-colored stone) to build this thing? I haven't yet played around with world generation and am quite a newb at it.

Just drain the unwanted water off the edge of the map through smoothed wall-->fortification.

Floodgates must be placed both on the inlet and on the outflow, or else you won't be able to control well enough.

A whole level... just redirect the river.

You could dig out an entire dirt layer below the surface. As long as you leave the very last tile on the edges un-dug and ensure that any openings to the surface are roofed over, you'll be completely safe.

Ditto. You got soil layers--use 'em. You can't possibly have such a huge wood industry that you need more than two or three levels worth of trees.

Round here, "Catten" means "a cat too old to be a kitten but not quite grown". It's a hybrid of "cat" and "kitten".

Uhm, guys? They're digital bits of information. About, oh, a few quadrillion times less complex than a bacterium. Much less a human.

"Kill off all migrants" is already a challenge... Primarily a challenge in ghost management.

And, anyway, however much we kill off pixel dwarves, I kind of doubt we'd be willing to support it in real life. Knowing what we do about history, I'm willing to bet that more than a few of us would happily die to prevent the Holocaust from happening again.

Lemme reiterate: Dwarves Are Not Sentient. Okay? Right then. No guilt necessary.

...Anyway, FB syndromes are much deadlier than miasma.

No picks at all? What about an anvil, to make picks?