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[Warlord255]

As my turn in the World of Traps and Attractions is coming up, I need to know a few things about fort/adventurer interaction before I can start.

1. Can adventurers see through windows that have been constructed in fortress mode?
2. If an extremely long fall is broken by a few Z-levels of water, can the adventurer survive?
3. Can adventurers dive/go down Z-levels while swimming? (They can go down one level, but drown if they stay too long.)
4. How do delays for switch-pulling and devices work in adventurer mode?
5. Are there any objects which both prevent adventurer movement, and can be displaced by adventurer action?
6. Is there a reliable way to ensure that an abandoned fort is populated by monsters?
7. When pulling levers, does one have to be adjacent or on top of the lever?

[Creamcorn]

4-Last time I checked levers do not really work in adventure mode.
6-abandoning after HFS breaching, goblin siege, (with civ hostile to your adventurer's) or you could build on a chasm.
5-No, none

[Jay]

4-Last time I checked levers do not really work in adventure mode.

(u) them, perhaps?
No idea what the u is supposed to be.
But it activates levers last I checked.
Thus, they should work fine.

[Warlord255]

4-Last time I checked levers do not really work in adventure mode.

(u) them, perhaps?
No idea what the u is supposed to be.
But it activates levers last I checked.
Thus, they should work fine.

This can be verified. Also, apparently you have to stand on the lever's tile to use it, but that's just fine, as falling stone is instantaneous.

Also tested No. 2. Apparently, water will break your fall... but you can't swim up Z-levels to escape if it's anything deeper than 2 tiles of water.

[Roundabout Lout]

Windows? I don't know about windows, but I know you can see through fortifications. I'll have to try this.

[Cheshire Cat]

you can climb stairs or go up ramps while underwater. you can also climb down them to get below the surface. i used this to hide my adamantium gear in a fort i made a very long time ago, you had to jump into a pool, swim along a short underwater passage hidden at the bottom, then up a short set of ramps into a hidden room, which had an alternative exit.

if you are going to play around with that then make sure your underwater bits are very short, the normal df races cant live long without breathing.

also consider opening sealed rooms or collapsing bridges with caveins activated by levers and supports, as well as simply hiding entrances underwater, and forcing the adventurer to find ways to empty the resovoir to get in.

you can cage and release beasties using levers, but things you have tamed will die on abandon, and the caged creature must have a name or it dies as well. you can name them by feeding them dwarves or pets.

adventurers can see through grates, bars, and fortifications, pretty sure they would be able to see through windows. im going to test this though.

be very sparing with waterfalls. they are pretty nice, but slow things down horribly.

good luck with the fort, ive been hanging out for some decent places to go adventuring in for ages, and the traps and attactions thread has been grinding along ever so slowly.

[Skid]

I'm fairly sure you can dive to any depth without stairs or ramps, you just have to be moving in a direction at the same time as diving or rising.

[FoboslC]

I just checked the windows part. Built some windows in my fort, blocked one-tile corridors with them, abandoned, walked as adventurer... bingo!.
yes adventurer can see thru windows.