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[Girlinhat]

This...  Hmm, this demands !!Science!!

The problem is how to implement this.  If you have a meeting hall, then idle dwarves will go there and get scared needlessly.  If you don't, then guessing at where they'll go on break can be tough.  On the other hand, I may have solved my GCS Harvesting problem.  A chained spider in a statue garden, spitting webs at all the idle dwarves, training my medics and exploding my cloth industry!

[Virodhi]

This...  Hmm, this demands !!Science!!

The problem is how to implement this.  If you have a meeting hall, then idle dwarves will go there and get scared needlessly.  If you don't, then guessing at where they'll go on break can be tough.  On the other hand, I may have solved my GCS Harvesting problem.  A chained spider in a statue garden, spitting webs at all the idle dwarves, training my medics and exploding my cloth industry!

Something like a 40d style GCS silk farm maybe? Chain the [critter of choice] up in its own little nook in the dining hall, then have raising bridges that will form walls around it when you don't need your dwarves spooked.

[Girlinhat]

That's what I'm thinking.  You could put these in every meeting area and selectively spook your idle crappers while also farming silk.

[NW_Kohaku]

I love dwarven science.

"Stupid dwarves, always trying to take breaks or eat or spend time with their kids instead of working slavishly for me, The Man... Wait! I've got it, I'll make a law that all breaks must be taken in a break room where a giant voracious hellbeast is desperately trying to break a single thin tether that is all that stands between it and eating half my workforce!  That'll provide some light encouragement to get back to work!  WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!"

[Girlinhat]

You say that like it's a bad thing, yet secretly, I know, and you know, that when I do this you'll be reading the results as soon as you can.

[NW_Kohaku]

Bad thing?  Not at all! I love hyping how absurd the actions I take are.

Still, I don't really watch the Fort Mode Forum as much as the Suggestions Forum.

[krenshala]

A relaxation pond full of tame sea serpents, on the other hand, is simply awesome, and hilarious to drop goblins into.

This is obviously a pond meant for the relaxation of the sea serpents.

[Marshall Burns]

Is your pond deep enough?  Dwarves start swimming at 4/7, and fish will air-drown at 3/7, so if your pond is shallow, then your fish are drowning.

Yeah, it's 6/7 (I filled it by bucket, and that's apparently as full as the dwarves are willing to fill it).

But, yeah -- whale ponds and shark tanks sound like a lot of fun right now. Maybe I'll mod in giant squid.

[Girlinhat]

Funny, I was just thinking about squids, and how they need insanely high natural wrestling skills.