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Lemme guess who that multitask-crafter was: Medi Usinpos
Also, I would like to retry my turn. A new computer will arrive soon,on which I can use to work faster than the steady 10 fps that I have now. It's like my current computer x32.

Glad to hear it.

Added you onto the turn list again.

We have about 7 elite soldiers with iron weapons and the only enemies that would show up at our current population wear no armour and use no weapons. We would butcher anything that isn't mounted, and a lot of things that are.

Going to guess that you're fairly new to the game if you've only just breached caverns.

First you need to get at least a few tunnels near your stairs walled off, you don't want beasts getting in from tons of directions at once.

Then you're going to want to trap the remaining tunnels, cage traps work best but some weapon traps would also do the trick.

Turn off automatic web collecting in your orders. I've lost tons of dwarfs to giant cave spiders because they were collecting silk.

Set up an open path to the water you want to use, put walls near it and traps on the waters edge, cave crocodiles and giant olms like to ambush from the water. They're good eating, but can rip through unprepared dwarfs like a scythe through wheat.

Keep an eye out for gremlins. Not really dangerous but a bit of a nuisance.

If your stairs are open to the air at any point wall them off, many a dwarf has dodged off the edge of stairs and died.

Hunters can be useful for keeping cavern animal populations down but some players prefer to send in the military to cull crundle swarms and trolls.

I remember from one of my previous mod binges that they make a great chicken replacement. I modded out the [COMMON_X] tags so that each race only had what was in their biomes, modded all exotics to normal pets and made crundles appear on layer 1, made some of the bigger beasts appear lower to avoid starting with giant cave spiders. War Crundles are surprisingly effective and they breed like rats.

Pity we can't really keep the Elk Birds. Damn [GRAZER] token. 

We could still try for War Buzzards though.

I'm also very pleased to see more people poking their heads into our little town. 

Is it possible to make a syndrome that enables a creature to transform into another in response to enemies being nearby?

I find it slightly ironic that you're taking time to finish your turn of our post-apocalypse human survival game because you're playing mods for a post-apocalypse human survival game.

I'm fond of bringing some rocks and throwing a quick wall up around the wagon to make it nice and safe to unload stuff.