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[Tokeli]

I decided to embark on an apparently highly-savage, good and evil and normal river. This has turned out to be a bad idea, as I'm more or less trapped inside while trying to train up a military that can get outside. I'd like to be able to retrieve all of the corpses outside that keep piling up every time I send another dwarf out.

So, two questions: Do cage traps work on skeletal creatures, and would a tightly-shut (no animals allowed) door be enough for an emergency entrance for my dwarves without letting the skeletons inside? Or would at least a forbidden door work?

[Wannazzaki]

I believe so, yes. Doors will keep out anything but building destroyers who will beeline to the door. Cages i think work on anything undead that it would work on if they were alive.

[Loud Whispers]

I believe so, yes. Doors will keep out anything but building destroyers who will beeline to the door. Cages i think work on anything undead that it would work on if they were alive.

Aren't all undead building destroyers?

[Wannazzaki]

I believe so, yes. Doors will keep out anything but building destroyers who will beeline to the door. Cages i think work on anything undead that it would work on if they were alive.

Aren't all undead building destroyers?

Really?

[Loud Whispers]

Apparently

[Wannazzaki]

DISREGARD THE FIRST COMMENT. AQUIRE FIRE AND AXES

[Tokeli]

The wiki says that level one building destroyers only target *wooden* doors. Is this true, or do I need to start a magma pump to the surface?

[Loud Whispers]

The wiki says that level one building destroyers only target *wooden* doors. Is this true, or do I need to start a magma pump to the surface?

If it's wooden, it's gone.

[Intro1827]

You can't really go wrong with a drawbridge. But yeah, only wooden furniture.

[the woods]

Cage traps will catch skeletal animals.

Also, if the critter is small (something like a turkey or a marmot, not a deer, moose, horse, giraffe), you can recruit whoever it's chasing, giving them 'No Uniform' in the military menu, and they'll kill it with no big problems. After that you can disband them or whatever you want.

The most annoying thing is when a big clan of skeletal badgers runs into all the cage traps and you get spammed by people trying to reload the traps and you're out of cages.

What units are in your caverns?

[thegoatgod_pan]

get silver hammers and steel axes, arm everyone, cloaks, helms and shields are especially good here (have them wearing like 5-9 cloaks and 3-5 shields each). Raising bridge moved by a lever deep within the fort (not near the entrance, or even close) is the best defense you can get for your entrance, use it as an atom smasher if the undead overwhelm  your military and are moving through it.

[Urist McBeard]

(have them wearing like 5-9 cloaks and 3-5 shields each)

How do you get them to wear so many shields? I thought you could only do that in adventure mode.

[Mitchewawa]

Custom uniforms. The proper formula for maximum defence is on the armour page on the wiki.

[Tokeli]

Thankfully I generated a very shallow world, and magma was a relatively short walk down to churn out some steel! Outfitting everyone with steel axes, iron chainmail and breastplates, and a pair of cloaks. I like to keep my uniforms sorta realistic, so no stacking a bunch of stuff. Sorta wish there were zombies now, since they've got anti-zombie armor!

I've found that despite them being ridiculous in combat, skeletons don't like marksdwarves at all. A single bone bolt can take down most of them.

[FrisianDude]

Custom uniforms. The proper formula for maximum defence is on the armour page on the wiki.

While it may not be as protective I prefer going for probable defence. Well, almost probable. I hate more than one weapon and more than one shield on a single Dwarf. :U