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[personofshadow]

I built a fort on this totally awesome volcanic island.

So far, from lack of trade, it seems to have no elves and no humans, and from lack of thieves and ambushes I'm starting to think there's no goblins or kobolds either.

Thats cool for the dwarves that don't want to die and all, but what about the puppeteer directing their futile lives? What is there to do other than create a magma chamber I'll never need to use?

[Shrike]

I'd dig under the island as far as possible, fill it with magma, then let the ocean in, carving your dwarven city out of the massive obsidian mold. Extra points if you make a central tower (in the shape of a towercap or something else that's dwarfy.

Or, build a lighthouse. Glass (assuming you have sand) surrounding a glowing magma core at the top of a max-height tower with an external spiral staircase (ramp) (See: The Spiral Minaret.)

[milaga]

I believe that islands nearly always have no neighbors. Therefore no trade except with parent civ and no ambushes or sieges.

Yeah, sounds pretty boring.

[ToonyMan]

Make the island collapse on itself.

[Tradanbattlan]

Make the island collapse on itself.

It's the only logical course of action.

[Gergination]

Acceptable courses of action:

1.  Collapse the whole island and make it disappear from the world
2.  Build a massive reservoir one z-level above the ocean that extends as high as possible.  Make as much space on the floor be retractable bridges.  Link all the bridges to a single lever.  Fill the entire reservoir with magma.  Visit in adventure mode and pull the lever.

[Glacial Eidolon]

Make a pressure plate that triggers a support to fall, which is the only thing holding up a large construction. When it falls, it should land on another set of constructions holding up a magma pit, causing the pit to fall as well. When the pool lands (coincidentally glancing and killing a dwarf) this should trigger a pressure plate when a collecting dwarf steps on it. When that happens, the volcano (or magma pipe) should be released of all its fluids through a complex labyrinth of screw pumps, flooding the entire island in magma.

When that happens, hole up all your dwarves in the fort. This is the fun part: the magma should go into a small hole in the ground, going through a multiple z-level shaft until it reaches the bottom level of the island (which is all channeled out). The magma will melt a wooden support, collapsing the whole entire island into dust. Congratulations, your dwarves are all dead!

I couldn't think of any completely new ideas, but this should be fun to set up.

[Albedo]

Safe?

I saw this subject title, and just started chuckling... 

[Atlas]

Make the island collapse on itself.

It's the only logical course of action.

Divide by zero!

Dwarven insanity machine, set to calculate the dividing by zero.... It sounds absolutely dwarfish...

[ToonyMan]

Insanity/0=Dwarfy

[Firnagzen]

As an addition to the collapse the island ideas: Build the Dwarf Atlantis.

[Atlas]

As an addition to the collapse the island ideas: Build the Dwarf Atlantis.

The lever to its destruction must be in a circle of statues in the middle of the common room.

[Firnagzen]

Hidden under the king/queen's throne room, rather.

[warlordzephyr]

How about, build some bridges/land on the side nearest to the major land mass, kill your dwarves and reclaim on the edge of you newely built land. Repeat untill you get a bridge from the island to the continent then reclaim the island.

[milaga]

Divide by zero!

Dwarven insanity machine, set to calculate the dividing by zero.... It sounds absolutely dwarfish...

Pff. Real dwarves CAN divide by zero. The answer is cats.