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I keep overshooting, so I might as well take advantage of it:

Attempt to build a railgun and a hydroelectric dam that runs on lava to charge it in front of the portal to Xantalos' realm.

Ignite F₂O₂ cake to get it to react with the lawyer-gas. Lob burning cake at Xantalos.

Wait, what? Is the giraffe fiend trying to sneak back into your fort by disguising itself as a normal giraffe?

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Wait, so you're using your kings personal guards children as a food source?
Seriously, just try and make your fort half-kobold. Kobolds are like competent children, in that they will reliably do work but can't be ordered around. Also, they don't drink beer, which makes them a lot less troublesome. This also allows you to set up a childcare system for them more easily.

Seriously, if you need a challenge, try training up some kobolds until they can kill FB's single-handedly.

EDIT: Oops, didn't see your new post, Neo_Spade. Oh well. At least she doesn't waste bolts if it turns out they aren't effective.

Conclusion: baby dwarves are, like all dwarves, idiots. They just can't do all that much stupid stuff yet and focus their stupidity into a lack of skill-learning.

As the title says, what is the coolest thing you've done?
For me, it was putting a disc on top of a motor and then attaching yet more motors with attached disks (which, in turn, had spiked clubs on them) to the first disk in Robot Arena 2. Besides the disc, I had one set of powered wheels, two spikes on either side of the rear casing and two spikes sticking out on top. The resulting gyroscopic force caused the thing to topple all over the place, making it impossible for an enemy to harm me. The conflict between said gyroscopic force and the bot's strange center of gravity (plus the slightly asymmetric placement of the clubs) made things so bad that the discs usually glitched out to the point where they were invisible and undamageable but still capable of supporting the spikes for some reason. I also managed to get the thing to explode like a nuke in the sandbox mode. Plus, the spikes on top turned out to be one of the most useful parts of the design, allowing me to damage enemies even when I was standing on my disc or the disc was flailing in the air like a helicopter blade.

I love Dwarf Fortress for the same reason I love a lot of other games, a combination of wish fulfillment and vicarious living through another world or characters.

So...being perma-drunk and getting your limbs burned off by magma is your dream?

Huh. Interesting. How are you planning to stop them from beating the wool?