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a better question is how did you get a magma-proof pump-stack running that early... my forts are usually defense-sufficient before i even start metalworking of any kind.

He didn't.

Sarvesh is legendary +5 but should be more like legendary +20 for slaughtering 1500 enemies by himself. I actually lock him in between an airlock and let him rip the goblins to shreds. When the elves come he seems to be able to slaughter them fast enough that the elvish archers don't shoot many rounds and get bogged down in melee with their terrible weapons. Wearing maximum iron and steel armor and like five shields he is invincible for all intents and purposes. He did die in battle once for some strange reason, but df overloaded anyways, I never got to see what happened actually.

I've been tinkering with 10000 year worlds. One went to the second goblin era and the other dipped into twilight around year 800, but nothing amazing or interesting. Found a vamp with 48000 kills and a few dwarves with 1500+ but the issue of war, I want war with all civs WITH vamps and necros for my next play. Since because the world does not advance or change, I've locked myself into an endless war with the elves. How I wish the world went on after embarking.

As someone familiar with bugs and such, not all bugs may be obvious with the raws and they may go unnoticed or undetected for several turns and only becomes game breaking later on like during a necro siege.

Update: Year 20 now. Resorted to mass item removal and cleaning to get rid of the thousands and thousands of useless items to restore FPS. Blood splatter DOES hurt FPS. No one should dispute this if they have a significant amount of blood splatter. Dfhack cleaned 4517 contaminants from 2538 items and this is after I let everyone idle out after they did their cleaning jobs already. Removing those 4500 useless splatters and pools of blood allowed me to restore 20% of my FPS and bring it back up to my cap.

I have 1349 creatures in my dead/missing pile, a lot of stray animals slaughtered in the ambushes and a few dwarves, 4. I think. Sarvesh 'Elf-bane' is now 18 years old. Sarvesh is 'strapped with massive amounts of muscle and lard' and his sideburns are now very long. He's grown quite a bit in these six years and now has a kill count of 256, with 196 being 'notable', and the other sixty consisting of elvish war beasts like unicorns, bobcats and cougars. The goblins have been getting away because Sarvesh's post is at the borderline of the bridge, his new post will be close to the deepest part of the fortress so we can lock the invaders in and slaughter them all.

Still no sign of that short, fat, ugly elf princess that was spotted in the first elf attacks. The fact the elves have been making biannual attacks instead of yearly attacks, and their numbers rank 100+ every time should eventually draw the royalty back to the battlefield to curb such losses. Then the trap bridge will close and I'll capture elvish royalty for some proper 'payback'. Sarvesh lost his older brother to them.  He died of his injuries, starvation and dehydration not helping, he is buried in a special blue coffin in the crypt. The elvish war continues on though.

Easier idea. Make a separate room for them and use glass as a natural barrier, much in the same way that the necromancer reanimating training room allows the necro to see the bodies but not be attackable.

Doing masterwork mod now. I kept regenning and I haven't found a reanimating terrifying biome in the old one, but I did produce a monster of a pocket region for adventure mode that has some 20000ish titans, megabeasts and such spread out over a 1000 of each cave type or whatever the game would allow. While affecting nothing in Dwarf Fortress mode, adventure mode could be summed up as this, my last lair had 4 dragons, 3 cyclops, 4 bronze colossi and proceeded to come straight for me. Minotaurs in labyrinths cluster in 8-9 groups, I lose to them often enough because they rip me apart. The bronze colossus I couldn't kill or outrun unless I got swept into the river. Not sure if I am ready for adventure mode fun... though I did get 500+ kills on the near helpless humans, but seeing them respawn endlessly when you move off screen far enough did get old after awhile. I thought I could eliminate the populace and keep them gone except for babys. And oh yeah. Last thing, even modding my dwarf, 20000 mega beasts becomes 30,000 quickly due to the birthing and such. Funniest name for a male minotaur child was 'Galka the Rapid Climax' born in the 1st year (started year 2 for adventurer), I just started laughing because I played a Galka in FFXI.

Simple answer is that the door or wall is best. Weapon traps are double edged yes, I'd avoid them for the friendly fire reason alone. And you can just forbid the door and let him die. I've only had a few crazies, not enough to make sense blocking all my workshops up, but just make sure you have livestock or fresh kills on hand for those crazy bone requirements.

Your entrance sounds elaborate, yes, but its not the most efficient. As for the walled in area, I do that to when I NEED to have access to materials. But I find the caravans are great for everything, especially since I slaughter all the the dwarven ones.