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Hmmm, what would happen if you had  the corpse pile between the GCS and necromancers... Would it be possible to instantly web the reanimated corpses?

They would get webbed only after moving one square. Cage traps would be better as they'll snare the zombies immediately when they reanimate.

Do these hairy golems have even any body parts? To me they always look like a single-part entity. I don't know how they are killed, apart from "pulping". Normally separating a head from upper body, or destroying upper body, would kill anything, but these hair don't have such things, I think.

Yes, they do have a full set of body parts which can fly off in an arc just as easily as with the whole creature. Decapitation "kills" the hair but even then the head hair can be re-reanimated. Then the head hair will have all the detachable features like nose and ears intact, like an ordinary head would.

Could an array of mist generators be placed in a narrow hallway so it would hit 100% of passing dwarves? That would clean them up nicely, at the cost of some task cancellation spam.

Wait till it freezes next and seal off the exposed Aquifer? Might take awhile, but if you want to keep playing it may be worth it.

That's my current plan, whenever this game manages to ooze into next winter. Haven't had this low FPS since the Circus came to town last time.

Also, don't lock your doors. Pets will kill your fps trying to path through them.

Or, don't just pet lock (key "o" in door settings) them; use "l" as well if you have to. It seems animal pathing ignores pet locked doors and that leads to heavy pathfinding spam when the animals can't actually move through them.

It's very tough to get playable civilizations to survive more than few years in high-megabeast world gens. I have usually settled with 10-50 year histories to get the monster densities I want in similar scenarios.
See this thread for some ideas how to set up the world gen parameters.

Yes, they can; a tavern full of visiting mercenaries can be an integral part of fortress defence.

Once I had a zombie siege visit during the first spring. When they just wouldn't bugger off after a year, I finally in desperation designated an open air tavern over the area they were milling around. Incoming visitors gradually whittled the horde down so I could resume normal fort building.

With new version out I decided to try adventuring again. Created a dwarf, decided to first go scouting around nearby necromancer tower, and to my surprise I found out I could clear it out right away. Armed with secrets of life and death I raided few Dark Pits for zombie material and ended up with an army of over hundred goblin and troll zombies. With my horde I decided to visit the Vault I had stumbled upon on the way and simply walked over all the guardians to the slab. Unfortunately the demon bound to the slab was murdered twenty years ago by a Human farmer, so I can't quite finish this perfect run.

Now what? Is it just me but does adventure mode seem a lot... less deadly in this version? I clearly remember the countless times I got my spleen handed on a platter by the first critter I encountered in earlier versions.