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[Crossroads Inc.]

Deep down in my Moria Map A group of creeping eyes popped up on the edge of the map.
Wanting a bit of practice, I sent one of my squads out to butcher them up.
Well they did, and no sooner then they finished, but a group of another 8 or 10 Eyes showed up!
They were killed with ease as well, but then SUDDENLY CRUNDLES!!!
The mobs keep spawning and I watch my Dwarves kill rate soar
ELK BIRDS INCOMING!

[Crossroads Inc.]

Ok now I wonder if there is some sort of bugs.
My Dwarves are knee deep in crundle, bugbat, trog and creepign eyes. corpses little the floor and a new group respawns as soon as the old dies.

Part of me wants to go away and leave whatever spawns to just roam the underground.
but the other part of me is thinking FREE ENDLESS KILLS!

[Di]

This is peculiarity of animal migration model, the same happens aboveground but there map border is significantly larger and this doesn't cause them to spawn atop your troops. This becomes extra fun if you have one cavern instead of three, then crundles are eventually replaced by cave dragons.
I don't know whether it's even possible to move axe-happy dwarves away from such spot, guess they're doomed to stay there fighting anything that comes out of darkness until some of them wander of to eat and the remaining ones get swarmed.
Send the reinforcements. Send masons to seal the cave.

[Psieye]

I don't know whether it's even possible to move axe-happy dwarves away from such spot, guess they're doomed to stay there fighting anything that comes out of darkness until some of them wander of to eat and the remaining ones get swarmed.

Make them inactive civilians. Should get them running away from 'the underlife'.

[Crossroads Inc.]

The kills finally stopped, between the 10 Dwarves they each averages 14 to 16 kills from the "fun"

So almost 200 kills in small cave critters

Of course this is on the wierd bizzare buggy "Moria Map" so maybe this will happen again

[Awessum Possum]

"Drums in the deep."

[Sutremaine]

Bugs in the map would make sense. Your average cavern might have a limited number of spawn tiles, but these form groups that are separated from each other. If you had a cavern with only two small entrances, one on the east side and one on the west, odds are that a group of dwarves stationed by one of them would take down one or two groups before the next one spawned on the other side of the map.

I wonder if you killed everything in the caverns?

[Loud Whispers]

If you did you might've made everything extinct o-o

[Aspgren]

If you did you might've made everything extinct o-o

Good! 

[Sadrice]

Could you use raising bridges at all but one subterranean map edge to bring this about artificially?

[roflgar]

Could you use raising bridges at all but one subterranean map edge to bring this about artificially?

Even better, you can build walls along underground edges.

[Girlinhat]

Yeah, underground edges aren't protected, you can do walls.  Above-ground tiles need bridges.

Experiments (not my own) into walling have shown that when one entrance is available, everything will spawn there.  You can effectively channel a kill zone, or preferably a capture zone.

[Loud Whispers]

Could you use raising bridges at all but one subterranean map edge to bring this about artificially?

Even better, you can build walls along underground edges.

Unless you dig straight down from the surface

Uh...

Yeah I don't think many have done so though.