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Lacking a chasm, I use the drawbridge smasher.

Cleanup doesn't take me very long, I designate everything forbidden as each goblin dies and once the siege is over I select things to dump from the stocks screen (having everything the goblins drop forbidden is convenient because it's all in purple at the end of the list). I have a macro pad that lets me hold down a single button and away all the stuff goes.

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And be careful, there's a time between the moment you pull the lever and the moment the grates/bridge will react.

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I get around this by building a series of bridges (at least two).

In the center where the two bridges would meet, I make a single tile "island" that I build the pressure plate on. First enemy that walks on it triggers the trap, then continues walking. Couple seconds the bridge retracts.. and away he (and anyone following him) goes.

Occasionally a goblin gets lucky and is standing on the safe spot when the bridges retract.. but my axedwarves are good at cleanup. Just make sure they're set to stay close to station, so they don't get caught in the bridges retracting.

Careful fortress design can help too, build a lot of doors and if a dwarf goes berserk, quarantine the area until he dies.

If all else fails and you aren't willing to give up the fortress.. save scum.  

So I counted the distance.. came up to 46.

Was getting a good playable rate (30-40 fps) up until last night.. when I load up the same fort this evening I'm at a crappy 12 fps and things are slow as molasses.

No changes.. it just got slower.

I haven't dripped magma into a flowing river yet. I would imagine it just make obsidian in the river, and eventually dam it up.

Maybe a little bigger than 3x3, so you can put walls around it and prevent dwarves from getting sucked in.

End result is whatever was on the surface level is now ~20 levels deeper. If you had a water source, it's now a waterfall.  

Wasn't a whole lot of fun.. though it was probably my most effective defense.

A bit later I built a large pit of my own, and put a drawbridge over it. Put that on Repeat as well, which was a lot more amusing because it sent demons flying (not that I could see them, but when they died their corpses would show up). Worked well until the dwarf on lever duty decided to take a rest, leaving the bridge down. Fort didn't last long after that.

Finally, I did the same bridge+chasm setup, but made an extremely long narrow hallway. I had a ballista shooting bolts across the chasm down the hallway. Every once in a while it would kill something but it took an eternity to clear the place out.