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[sadron]

Oh sure I build the dining area, the workshops, the stockpiles, and the sleeping quarters, but what kinds of stuff should I do? Maybe I'm creatively stagnant. :/

[misko27]

Arena! Indoor game preserve! Faux Nuclear reacter! Magma-spewing Phallus! War Dog races with gobbos as bait! Tree House! Doomsday Device x100!!!!!!!

[sadron]

Those are neat ideas, but rather vague.

[Loud Whispers]

1. Build a house.
2. Build a house next to that house.
3. Build a house on top of those houses.
4. Build a house next to that house.
5. Build a house on top of that house.

Rinse, repeat. Dwarf Fortress.

[misko27]

Those are neat ideas, but rather vague.

So, Giant temple of blood, surrounded by magma, and has possibly chained demons. Horrifying sacrifices to a unamed entity. Ceremonies where blood is poured on the temple.  What else?

What else do you need?

Everything. For instance, Should we have a massive arena for epic combat? 3 FBs (Are they on the same side? Strong FBs, of course, webspitters, or necrotizers) against a entire captured goblin horde. A Minotaur against a captured elven caravan.

Or, a race track where we set dogs on elves and goblins. Oh, or Magma! OR BOTH. Though, not simultaneusly.

Or, a room where we obsidianize goblins and elves, then make stautes of them.

These are more specific.

[thiosk]

I'm working on my first basic arena.  It is for goblin slaughter, with a viewing area in the main dining hall.  My military isn't well trained yet, so I'm hoping a little wonton murder helps.

It's a bit tedious to link levers to all the cages every time- suggestions?

I'm considering sending armored dwarves with training weapons against the disarmed goblins, make it slow and tedious with hopefully lots of skill up!!

[JackOSpades]

Drain an Ocean.... farm mermaids or sea-serpents.

look up dwarven childcare...profit.

cut out the middleman by making an execution chamber that drops goblins directly into the circus.
 

[weenog]

Look up.  You see all that sky there?  That's free space in which to erect mighty ramparts, archer and lookout towers, mazes of death, and possibly a nice strawberry garden.

[darkrider2]

Whatever it is, it should involve...

Spoiler: you guessed it (click to show/hide)

MAGMAAAAAAAAAAA

[billw]

I'm working on my first basic arena.  It is for goblin slaughter, with a viewing area in the main dining hall.  My military isn't well trained yet, so I'm hoping a little wonton murder helps.

It's a bit tedious to link levers to all the cages every time- suggestions?

I'm considering sending armored dwarves with training weapons against the disarmed goblins, make it slow and tedious with hopefully lots of skill up!!

Yeah I had this same problem, after linking up 20 cages for the 5th time I remembered about mass pitting. Much easier! Check the wiki.

[Pyro627]

Yeah I had this same problem, after linking up 20 cages for the 5th time I remembered about mass pitting. Much easier! Check the wiki.

For an arena I built once, I dropped the prisoners into a 1x1 room with a hatch for the floor, which opened into the arena, so I could dump all my prisoners in at once and release them into the arena at once with the pull of a lever.

[They Got Leader]

Capture a dragon (or a cave dragon, titan, beast, etc), then proceed to make a temple to it underground. Chain it to the wall. Find a mate and breed dragons.

[Nyxalinth]

I was having this issue recently, too. Fiddling with trying to finally figure out aquifers allayed a great deal of boredom for me recently.  You might ask yourself "What's something I've been afraid to learn/haven't tried yet?" and do that.

[Sutremaine]

See how far you can move a minecart full of magma using one mini-reactor.

[Mura]

See how far you can skip a minecart over the ocean.