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Am I the only one who opened this thread expecting to read about chidren locked in a tiny cell with some animal for 12 years?

Nope, but give it time; the OP's only just started, so it won't be long before those kids find themselves taking a regular lava bath in the name of !!science!!

R.E. Marksdwarves; The above is correct, setting them on inactive tends to be more effiecent, just remember to set up an archer range for each target you have, even if the existing room designation covers 5 targets only 1 dwarf can use it at a time. Once it's setup and your dwarves go idle you'll find the biggest problem is supplying enough ammo.

Make sure you have training ammo set up and space in the quivers - If you collect stray bolts you sometimes end up with a situation where the dwarf has 5 stacks of 1 bolt and he won't fire.

With melee training you either need to be patient (having a champion with the teaching skill helps a lot, since without it they rarely organise teaching sessions), use a danger room (insanely easy to exploit, ruins the fun imo), or use live targets (goblins, humans, trolls, trogs etc). Depending on your pop cap and current playstyle it may be worth remembering that elites abandon all existing labours repeatedly.

Where do they go?

To IKea of course!

(runs away)

As awful as that was, it would explain why there's always a few bits missing.

In reality Kea's are omnivorous mountain parrots from New Zealand that are prone to examining, stealing, or destroying anything they can get their claws and hooked beaks on, safe in the knowledge that they enjoy immunity from reprisal due to an endangered species status.

With that in mind they probably hang out on Mount Doom with all the props they stole from LOTR.

Iirc (giant)Keas aren't naturally aggressive, however they tend to lash out if cornered or if their movement is blocked - Which tends to happen all the time once they've found their way into the corridors of your fort.

The same issue can happen with all flying beasts, except that Keas make a beeline for the stockpiles in search of shiny things. Once they're trapped underground they turn into gigantic pack hunting feathered engines of destruction that rip dwarves limb from limb.

Rumours persist of an huge trap-avoid mega-kea that marks the coming of the dwarf apocalypse....

A kobold stole an artifact adamantite mace (one of 2 that my idiot urists have constructed), an event that I couldn't care less about.

After weeks of deliberation I finally pulled the unknown lever on level 15, which fortunately turned out not to be connected to the lava pump, but to the 5 dragon cages in the packed dining hall. Luckily it also sealed the dining hall level to prevent them from escaping. I'm not sure why I built that contraption.

On the upside, the whole level is a raging inferno, which should keep the fort nice and warm for the survivors.

Personally I blame the dwarves; They're always building massive forts full of weapons and facilities, then abandoning them to a mysterious force known as 'fps'. All those lost settlements add up to a massive industrial base.

What's directly above the fb? I had a similar issue with an emerald one a while back. 4 years of shooting only chipped it.

If you have open space leading up to a ceiling the simple solution is build an alternate staircase leading up, then channel a path down to it (you may lose a dwarf depending on your forward planning, try to make sure you have a z-level or 2 inbetween, then assign a new garbage dump at the top and bludgeon it senseless with whatever rocks\furniture\prisoners you've got lying around.

You can use a hatch cover part way down if you want a controlled mass of junk. - Sooner or later the amber beast will break up and you'll be left with some insanely heavy body parts to use if it ever happens again.