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Build a lookout tower or two, lock the vamps in and figure out a way to bring ammo and the eventual useless child meal-to-be inside without having the vamps get out.

Then make them a militia of markdwarves, or any kind of militia who shall be let out only during sieges.

Good enough?

Dig around a bit. Maybe you'll find a beerquifer.

I do hope it's not the result of a hideous monster twisted into a monstrous form, made of beer.

Though, on second thought, it'd be awesome. Dwarves would probably elect it their king.

-I just failed at this post, replying to a post while there was a whole page I didn't read xP-

As most people have already said, you just got to find yourself something to do. Repurpose a nearby river to act as an impromtu flood-trap to invaders, find creative ways to kill cats so that the dorf they adopted will slowly become resistant to tantrums (dwarves can gain a tag that almost nullifies happines gains/losses, therefore making death as bad as a slap on the wrist to them. It's only "trained" by witnessing lots of bad things so you'll want to have plans to keep dorfs happy) and so on.

You just need imagination. The sky upper z-layer ceiling's the limit, and I'm pretty sure somebody must be planning for ways to break it.

Don't moody dorfs simply pick the closest, non forbidden material available?

If you're worried about your candy, simply forbid the wafer you dorf is using. As long as they aren't the only material of the mood the dorf will do something else (if no primary material, in this case metal, is available after they've taken it, the dorf will make an iron artifact. Unless you messed with the raws, in which case it's "first inorganic material on the list")

Dear urists mclazyasses
You neglected to remove the butterfly corpse blocking the door, letting in 15 goblins. Jeez, there was 147 of you. Hope that 2 month party and infinite break was worth it. Now that you are all dead, i hope you had a nice day.

-A very frustrated Donut

were you playing Boatmurdered or what?

Because so far nobody quite managed to find a way to get a were-dwarf to "Transform and roll out!"

How come any drink you can produce is alcoholic? Is there no space in a fortress for, say, berry juice or ground-sunberry-blend-in-boiling-water?

Another ill effect of this is that much of your engravings will be of cheese. Without any history of glorious heroes beating elves to death with other elves the engravers kinda just draw whatever pops in their dwarfy little brains. Which is cheese. Its ALWAYS cheese.....

unless you deliberatedly try to get ambushed by giant badgers/goblin snatchers/kobold thieves/sieges before engraving anything.

Which isn't really any better. I don't know which is worse, images of cheese Vs dwarves curled up in fetal position as bonobos laugh at them.