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I was using a danger room and one of the military dwarfs babies was impaled on the wooden spikes. Time to use those 4000 gold bars I have... 

Oh no, it's fine. I found it funny.  It's my fault for doing it anyways.

Sooo.. I forced 5 goblin sieges and 10 elf sieges . 30+ elf sieges have happened. They are never-ending. When I got to around 1000 invaders the lag was unbearable. I think I broke something.

I am guessing this is a no. But, would it be possible to make a dfhack script that would allow you to turn a dwarf into a vampire by putting the k cursor over them and running said script?

I usually get some turkeys and they lay plenty of eggs. Turkeys and geese. Eggs galore. Maybe I could capture some dragons next time...

At embark you have to choose the size of your embark. You cannot go beyond that except maybe with a reclaim. The reason is because the game just lags too much if you have too many squares. Also pathfinding can become more difficult and slow the game more with more choices of where to go.

1. I have not ever seen a dwarf come with the goblins in a siege or ambush. But I know that you can see them being part of that civilization in legends mode. Maybe if we set the child limit to some absurd number then left them all outside and waited a few years. Maybe made another fort they would come.

2. I wouldn't open the cage. But isn't there a way that you can tame them safely?

3. There are several options. You could try mods. Masterwork has the fortress defence mod in it. That can add some very powerful siegers. There are also many other mods that can do this. You could also come up with rules for yourself saying that you won't use doors or bridges or walls. You could make some kind of absurd and maybe pointless mega project. You could build an above ground fort.

How are you going to go about making a plumbing system? What will its purpose be?

You should make hot/cold showers for dwarves in their apartments! The "Hot" lever scalds them horrifically with steam and the cold lever floods the room.

Not sure if there would be a real benifit. But I would have tunnels dug between rooms and you could just pop open the walls and have water or magma pour out. I would also have some way have either a little or a lot come out. I would probably have some kind of resevoir on top of my fortress that would have to be filled every once and a while. To make it easy I could go on a volcano aquifer map and just build my resevoirs under those and my fort under the resevoirs. Then I could have a drainage system that could just drain into the caverns or into another large resevoir to be either drained or used for other tests, drowning chambers,etc. Maybe I could have a final lever that obsidianizes the entire fortress. Thanks for all the ideas everyone. Post anymore if you can think of them. Ill report back any finds. If I am sucessful. The first thing that I will probably do is the plumbing system.