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[lcy03406]

I have 147 dwarves now and the FPS drops to ~75. I changed the pop-cap to 80 but it is too late. I tested that if I flood the dining hall with water (via dfhack) and kill about 50 dwarves, the FPS will be more than 100. So I decided to kill some. But I really don't want to drown so many indifferently. I want to kill 20 most useless adults and 10 weakest children. I can draft the adults and drown them, but the children are difficult. Children cannot be assigned jobs and IDLE children don't response to burrows. So how can I move them out of the dining hall?

[Crashmaster]

children will rush to deconstruct constructed walls, floors, ect., especially floors over tall cliff edges...

[Bobnova]

Alternatively, draft all the adults you want to save, move them somewhere else and flood the dining hall.

[lcy03406]

children will rush to deconstruct constructed walls, floors, ect., especially floors over tall cliff edges...

Thanks, but I want to kill the weak ones and save several children who will become good recruits in a year or two.

[Panando]

A meeting zone in a burrow will lure children assigned to that burrow. Meeting zones can be made on bridges. Just saying.

[thegoatgod_pan]

vampires

[lcy03406]

vampires

but none of the 147 is a vampire, sigh.

[krenshala]

vampires

but none of the 147 is a vampire, sigh.

Import one?

[lcy03406]

vampires

but none of the 147 is a vampire, sigh.

Import one?

How?

[GoombaGeek]

vampires

but none of the 147 is a vampire, sigh.

Import one?

How?

eDorf.

[DarkWolfXV]

Make bridge above magma
Make burrow on bridge
Add every useless dwarf to the burrow
Retract the bridge

PROFIT!

[Callista]

Make a large 10x10 raising bridge inside a 10x10 room with one door. Attach the bridge to a lever. Raise the bridge. Turn off all burrows. Create one burrow right under the bridge. Create another burrow that includes all of the map except that area under the bridge. Assign all useless dwarves to the burrow under the bridge and all useful dwarves to the other burrow. Wait for dwarves to run to their burrows. Pull the lever. I like this method better than dropping them from 10+ z-levels because there are no bodies to clean up.

You will also need one slab per dead dwarf, unless you like ghosts.

BTW, other ways to raise your FPS include turning off temperature and weather. Temperature is necessary for magma, fire, and cold/heat effects, but otherwise not really needed. Weather is a source of minor bad thoughts and little else (with the exception of cursed weather, which can be more troublesome). I don't think it's cheating to turn those off, if you want to. Of course, magma will be essentially red water; but that's a worthwhile trade-off when FPS matters. Also slaughter or cage all excess livestock. You can pasture unwanted pets beneath an execution bridge.

[Loud Whispers]

Import very angry vegetables from the goblins.

[Kofthefens]

PTW
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[Fishybang]

PTW
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Poison the well? Seems dwarfy.