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[foxfire]

I've been digging downwards to try to reach magma, and almost made it.  However, I opened up a cavern full of nasty enemies.  I was too slow in getting a hatch on the stairs and now I have 4 dwarves running around trying to haul stuff in this scary area!!  How do I tell them to stop trying to kill themselves?  Is there a way I can make them ignore the caverns or at least get them out so I can get a hatch on?

[Psieye]

Ok first, we need to yell at your dwarves "It's an emergency! Drop everything you were doing and come to this area!" - set up a burro'w' around some safe zone and then go to the military screen's Alerts section. Set the civilian alert level to Active/Training and then tell the game to make civilians go to the burrow you just defined at that alert level (ask if I wasn't clear enough here). Once everyone is inside, then you can revert the alert level to Inactive.

In fact, best if you put that hatch first, then do this alert-burrow procedure to drag everyone in. Revert alert level once the hatch is set to locked.

[martinuzz]

forbid all items in the caves, so they stop hauling them. Also turn off automatic web collection for your weaver's workshop (<o>,<W> >> do not auto-collect webs)

[foxfire]

Ok, I managed to escape with one dead wardog and an injured dwarf.  Thank you so much, I panicked as I watched my farmers and masons walking around a fishman and elkbird infested level.  For future reference, is there an easy way to forbid all items in caves?

[darklord92]

currently no, all you really need to worry about in terms of cave jobs are fishing and web collection. dwarfs will fish and collect webs( if you have auto web collect on ) and fish if the designated fishing zone on the surface has no fish in it. To work past the fishing make a safe area for him to fish in the cave and set an activity zone. or set with labors "o"  and force fishing and drinking ONLY in the activity zones.

[RabblerouserGT]

You don't need to set it to Active/Training. You can create a custom alert for easy access later should, say, a forgotten beast show up.

Typically, my alerts go like this.
"Inside Fort" with a burrow set so everyone stays inside the drawbridge.
"DEEP Inside Fort", not used as much since I've started using walls. I started using them when I had a wall-less moated fort, but some goblin bowmen started to pick off my dorfs. So I set a burrow so no dorf could go above ground.

Safe to say neither of my "Danger-level" alerts have burrows going into the caverns. Really, I shouldn't have to say that, but I didn't think ahead and have the entrance to the caverns within my fort. Would be better if have the entrance outside.