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[JakeTamber]

So, I have batmen harassing my dwarfs (as far as I can tell they are not hurting them, just being a mild nuisance). I set one of my Dwarfs to military in hopes he could dispatch them for me. My dwarf started killing them without much hassle, but, as I am sure you all have guessed, he fell down the chasm.

I'm all like, "Yay! Oh, no! He's being swarmed! Yay, he's killing them anyway! Almost all of them are dead! Finally I am doing well... oops, he fell... he's dead."

So, for now, is my only solution to cover up the entire chasm (the vast majority of it is underground, luckily, and I have yet to mine into it) my bridges? That was my first thought, but that will take quite a while. Just wanted to check and see if there were any obvious solutions I am missing before I go and build ~50 bridges.

[Smew]

Most creatures are fine with staying inside the chasm, so you could direct your work away from it.
However if you insist on keeping your dwarves in that area, I would suggest a marksman, rather than a melee dwarf, and he should be set to "stay close to station" rather than "Chases opponents"

[Jervous]

Filling it with an infinite water or magma source should kill everything in it, destroying the spawn.

[Strant]

Couldn't you just floor it off instead?

Who's your dwarf with the highest comedian stat?  Get him and a few others others, arm them with crossbows and have them train near the chasm.  It's not too big a problem if they die because batmen won't use crossbows.

[Quietust]

Filling it with an infinite water or magma source should kill everything in it, destroying the spawn.

Er, creatures don't spawn from chasms - whatever's there from the start is all you'll get (aside from breeding, of course, but that's always the case). Also, chasms can absorb an infinite amount of water/magma instantaneously, so trying to fill it would be an exercise in futility.

[Derakon]

Jervous's suggestion would be accurate if you were playing the 2D version, mind you. But chasms haven't worked that way in years now.

[goatunit]

He may have intended to imply that you floor/wall off the chasm a couple z-levels below.

[Jervous]

Oh, ok. The wiki just said that and I forgot that it's very outdated. I've never actually needed to destroy chasms before.

[dogstile]

yeah, direct your forces away from the lair of the batman

try not to do anything illegal though, or you may find that a lone batman has begun to kill your dwarves in great vigilante vengeance!

[Smew]

edit: I'm stupid.