What, you don't have ANY military?
[waves hi nicely] Hi, I'm a fan of your posts.
Anyhow, sure I do have some military, but as you can see it's mostly been about construction. (The fort is only 4 years old and I specifically turned off invaders because I just wanted this one for a showpiece). The real problem is that I have several base openings due to chimneys, water intake, and exterior livestock meadows. That, and I didn't realize there were massive building destroyers who could take out several floor grates, etc,etc.
What can I say? It caught me entirely by surprise, because I thought the game was set to not send me things larger than the largest dragons. My military consists of limited numbers to hold off ground based front door choke-points, not flying neighborhood crashers.
Will try to encase the damn thing entirely in spawned obsidian. Though the way dfhack works, I'm not sure if the elevation will entirely allow it.
As for changing its tags, can I do that and have it take immediate effect?
he's now approximately 22 squares and 3 z levels away from a dwarf.
save, quit.
Find the appropriate raw. Make it aquatic/remove flier tag. This will make it fall, and drown when you load your game.
I'll get a save to work from, then try multiple methods. I wouldn't mind having the bastard encased on all sides with obsidian.