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[MonkeyHead]

So, my current embark has a "cavern" on it - i found this whilst travelling in adventure mode so didnt even investigate it. It turns out not to be a cavern. Instead on the north bank of my river I have several dozen each of Giant bats, large rats, giant rats, badgers, giant badgers and badger men. They seem to get on with each other. Thankfully the river keeps them away from me. More correctly, the numerous sey lamprey and carp keep them away, which are taking chunks out of any critter that comes too close. Well, all but the bats, who are constantly pestering my temporary pasture before running away from my dogs (not before they maim them a little, only to return once the vomiting stops). I have iron ore on my side of the river and a nice spot starting to be carved out, but I dont anticipate surviving very long. those bats will no doubt cause me problems, and whilst I am safe from the hordes of rodenty fun, my migratns are bound to spawn next to rodentville.

[Sir Leonard III]

So, my current embark has a "cavern" on it - i found this whilst travelling in adventure mode so didnt even investigate it. It turns out not to be a cavern. Instead on the north bank of my river I have several dozen each of Giant bats, large rats, giant rats, badgers, giant badgers and badger men. They seem to get on with each other. Thankfully the river keeps them away from me. More correctly, the numerous sey lamprey and carp keep them away, which are taking chunks out of any critter that comes too close. Well, all but the bats, who are constantly pestering my temporary pasture before running away from my dogs (not before they maim them a little, only to return once the vomiting stops). I have iron ore on my side of the river and a nice spot starting to be carved out, but I dont anticipate surviving very long. those bats will no doubt cause me problems, and whilst I am safe from the hordes of rodenty fun, my migratns are bound to spawn next to rodentville.

You should probably get underground, build a military, dig under the rodents, build stairwell then pop out like an alien from some guy's stomach and kill them.

And who needs migrants? Migrants are idiots and supply wasters.

[Girlinhat]

Training spears are usually enough to deal with these threats.  Anything unarmored is vulnerable to shaped pieces of wood.

[MonkeyHead]

I habitually play an "everybody mines" embark, so im not too bothered about immediate threats other than the giant bats, who have killed many a dozen of my civilians going back several hundred forts. Thank god for the river keping the giant badgers away, even if this does mean carp.

[xeivous]

Training spears are usually enough to deal with these threats.  Anything unarmored is vulnerable to shaped pieces of wood.

One could also invest in crossbows.

[Teneb]

There's no tunnel going down to the caverns? Yet there are cave creatures? Intresting, to say the least.


As mentioned above, crossbows are the solution if you want them dead.

[MonkeyHead]

Academic in any case. The autumn caravan was bait enough to bring 15 or so bats down into my fort. After most of my citizens died, the place was nigh on unsustainable. Investigating the site with an adventurer showed there to be a cavern slightly to the north, of screen of my embark.