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for testing purposes you may want to make a modded reaction that produces uristian shit tons of your contact venom, and assign it to the screw press. run the reaction and deconstruct building for contaminant explosion 3-4 tiles around the center.

Yeah, I planned on making some sort of custom contaminant. It needs to be on contact, and it needs to have noticeable results. I was thinking something along the lines of melting skin instantly. And adding a custom reaction to a workshop is a good idea. I also planned on using autodump to move it from a barrel to where ever I put it. I used that trick testing the "flamability" of alcohol (not at all, boils if barrel catches on fire, does nothing interesting).

Should there be any sort of Virulence (he be bored or not), I highly suggest a military position. Survive-ability need not apply. If the death is interesting, a small note would be nice, but if not, oh well.

Future versions.....

Oh, and no, pumps automagically remove salt, stagnation and contaminants.

Oh yeah, forgot about that with pumps. I don't often deal with saltwater, so I've never built a desalination project.
Too bad. I hope to one day weaponize mist or steam. I imagine a goblin gas chamber.

I, for one, welcome our new venom mist generating overlords!

That won't work. Only magma and water are true "liquids." Everything else are contaminants. So right now, you can't have a pools of blood, just pools of water contaminated with blood.

Now, mist of water coming from a contaminated pool of water, yes. I do wonder though, is the contaminant carried in the mist too. Would an on-contact syndrome contaminant in water-mist affect dwarves?...

I was merely pointing out that using a hatch as described will make it effectively impenetrable to building destroyers, making them an alternative to bridges. I also had a minor rant where I described what I use doors for, but that was mostly unrelated.

Even then your dodge trap has plenty of drawbacks as well. Trap avoid (unless using cave-ins), fliers, jams(unless cave-in), and as you said forgotten beasts. So, they have all of the same drawbacks, unless you are using cave-ins. And then, cave-in dodge traps require manual activation making them useless against undetected ambushes.

I'm fairly certain armor should not take damage. It sounds like you have modded armor. I don't remember the details, but I recall a modification so that armor was clothing to deal with some equipping bugs, the downside being that they take damage.

I could be wrong, and I'll check the wiki.

Edit: Armor with the armorlevel token set to 0 will take damage. With that token set to 0 dwarves will also wear armor like clothes.

Or you could have let your armor sit in refuse stockpile.

I'm a firm believer in conscripting large portions of migrants. The ones that survive several battles, those become your militia. 5 dwarves training nonstop, even for a year or 2, in my experience, isn't that great.

Eventually a 5 man militia can stop a siege (until the next update), but they have to be well armed as well as extremely skilled. 5 dwarves with little or no experience, sitting in a room pretending to try and kill each other for a year won't produce those results.

If you insist on having small squads training constantly, don't go out and meet them. Make them come to you. Have some weapon traps to weaken them, or better yet have some marksdwarves cripple them. Marksdwarves do wonders at maiming, usually takes a while for them to kill though, so using them to maim a siege and then using your melee troops to clean up works quite well.

Well, after a quick test run of droping magma in my drink stockpile, barrels can "explode." You get a small plume of boiling dwarven rum! But if you use rock pots, alas, they don't seem to explode. So my drink stockpile just melted dwarves, only had 1 small explosion from a wooden barrel that was left over.

I'll test again to see if I can get something better.