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[ivze]

I enjoy my current fort: I get attack after attack, as my civilization is in war with both goblins and elves. But after playing some years my fort entrance has become a complete mess of dead goblins, elves, cattle and tons of bloody loot.

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*Note: all creatures except some cats and military dwarves in center are dead.

How do you clean your forts?

[Bleaktea]

I just atom-smash everything.  I channel out a hole down into a room with a drawbridge in it.  The hole is marked as a garbage dump zone, so the dwarves throw everything down the hole and into the compactor room below.  Once everything's dumped, I pull the lever and obliterate the garbage.

(I use the pit-and-compactor-room setup because I had too many problems with accidentally squishing dwarves when I just set up a garbage dump with a bridge looming over it - the worst was one guy who was stuck under the bridge as it came down, and couldn't get away because the fortress guard had just cut off his legs).

Sometimes I'll use an iron bridge with an iron mechanism, and flood the compactor with magma, so you only have to pull the lever when it gets full of junk that the magma can't melt.

[ivze]

Right now I consider digging a pit down to where I can pump magma by means of dwarf power. That would be the best solution...

[Mechanixm]

I have twin magma jets that spray forth from the front of my fortress, both cleansing the invaders and the garbage they bring.

The non-meltable metal is then brought inside and melted at the forges into useful items.

[acetech09]

I throw body parts and corpses from the surface into my underground garbage dump - I let it all rot then use the bones for crafts.

Keeps the surface clean, and gives me bones.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Oooh war with elves, I have still never managed to gen a world where to pointy eared bastards actually attacked--any chance you could post the save/seed

[Corneria]

I don't. I let the blood and corpses decorate my fort.

[Komra]

The non-meltable metal is then brought inside and melted at the forges into useful items.

Paradox, much? Gotta love Dwarf Physics.

[acetech09]

I do, though, systematically kill the trolls that attack so I can get a even painting of troll blood on the entrance walls of my fort.

I don't mind microcline blue in my fort, as long as it's not actually microcline.

[franti]

Fucking HATE microcline. I removed it from my game.

[Eoganachta]

I don't. I let the blood and corpses decorate my fort.

I tried doing this but the sheer mass of the bodies’ warped space-time into a singularity. The closer I got the event-horizon the slower the passing of time was relative to the outside world. So I butchered some more cats and hoped for the best. It didn’t help, surprisingly.
Bodies and blood are the biggest fps-death causes for successful forts, or cats.

[franti]

Atom smashing is best for FPS because calculation the temperature for each item dropped in magma takes up FPS.

[Mitchewawa]

ivze, that's the nicest looking code to I've ever seen, though I suspect you might have used a program...

Anyway, get DFhack, dump all trash, use autodump, atom smash it.

[Sandrew]

I leave it out to serve as a warning for invaders. Nothing says "get off my lawn" better than five hundred corpses lying about. I also just love imagining my soldiers fighting a bloody melee on top of dozens of bloodstained skeletal remains from previous sieges.

[Ross Vernal]

Mass claim everything, turn all the bones into bolts, dump any wood armor into a magma pit or 50 Z-level drop, melt everything that can be melted.