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Caverns breached, and before I could set defenses, a Giant Bat made a hit-and-run killing an unimportant Urist.

Then, I make a screw-up with moving a caged troll, and release it.

However, the nearby Butcher proceeds to knock it out UNARMED, make make it constantly pass out so the military kill it in a single blow to the head.

Manliest. Butcher.

So, after WorldGen and Site Idenfification, I've moved onto 'What so I want to do in Amok's name?'

Usually, I like doing stuff with animals. In fact, I prefer to weaponize animals and traps than Military. [Because whenever I make a military they go insane from 'long duty hours' regardless of me giving them time off or not, or failing that die to a lone Crundle somehow.]

I have settled into an 'Execution Pit', which can be used for Migrants and Prisoners alike!

The idea is to capture cavern animals in cages, and tame some for 'military' purposes, and taming some others to be placed in the 'airlock', likely involving bridges, and then released into the 'Pit' when wild again, with the airlock sealed behind them. There may be three airlocks so replacements can be prepared while the wild-ification happens.

The pit itself will be a moderate sized room, with a grate, and three lanes leading into it, with no way out. Each lane will be a chute, with a retracting bridge placed over a channel a few Z levels above it, to dump the victims in. Except one lane.

The third lane is the kill switch, where water or Magma will promptly flood the room, and drown all those inside.

The only issue I see with this idea so far is the drop system, and moving caged prisoners. I've had issues before getting a bridge to 'drop' stuff down like Goblins in cages, and I don't know how to 'pit' stuff. I know retracting a bridge and burrows can be used to send Dorfs to their demise.

So, does this method of executions seem sufficiently Dorfy? A rampage can also make !!FUN!! happen with levers. [Also help with pitting Goblins]

I had one show up in my fort with bout 90 dorfs.

Never found out who it was, none of them showed the signs.

I set it to high, and used the built-in finder feature to find areas with Flux, nothing came up green.

That said, if no-one has access to Flux then it doesn't matter that much to be honest. Given my history with military [Make milita, cage some goblins, strip them, still lose 2 urists to 1 Goblin in a 5v1], I'm more likely to make deathtraps than an army.

And when I do make an army it's out of expendable animals. Like Cave Crocodiles [Which are apparently religious]

I just lost another fort to some goblin ambushes [No ambushes for 3 years then two at once...]

I can't see to design a good trap to stop the goblins, when I do design one they either come before it's finished, it doesn't work for some reason [Gobbos too fast/Urists too lazy], or it dosen't actually *kill* them, or gets overwhelmed. Or it involves a pit and causes cave-ins constantly.

I'm thinking for my next fort to have a drowning chamber/Water flow to drop, but I need a way to 'flush' it. That involves making a pit, which will inevitably cost me about 10 miners as Urist Mc Miner decides to drop another one 12 Z levels.

The basic design idea is to have a drawbridge to close off the main path, which diverts the goblins to the chamber. Which them closes behind them, locking them in. Let the river in, and either wash them into the Caverns, or drown them and then wash the water into the Caverns.

How would I go about this without killing about 7 miners and having it ready before goblins decide 'Yeah let's murder those Dorfs'

Clearly Option 3, and make it an underground arena for your dorfs to watch.

That or a sacrificial pit for Amok.

No. I didn't know ._.

EDIT: New fort going, and something weird is happening.

Things that were never on my units list are showing up on the kill list.

I can only guess that something is killing things underground...