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[Squill]

Interesting idea that I haven't seen before, but I'm fairly new here so excuse me if it's been done before.
When dealing with something dangerous, such as lava or water, I have an idea of putting a small chamber between the main fort and the reservoir, or whatever may be a problem. Put a kitten inside, and then if something goes wrong then you will get an immediate warning.

[Girlinhat]

Interesting idea that I haven't seen before, but I'm fairly new here so excuse me if it's been done before.
When dealing with something dangerous, such as lava or water, I have an idea of putting a small chamber between the main fort and the reservoir, or whatever may be a problem. Put a kitten inside, and then if something goes wrong then you will get an immediate warning.

What version are you playing?  Creatures go missing, there's no instant alarm.  Someone has to witness the death, or find the body, or else there's never a true alarm ringing.

[kuniqs]

Reminds me of turkey gobbler ambush detection system.
Game won't get paused when kitten burns so you'll get notified about this with delay.

[Squill]

Interesting idea that I haven't seen before, but I'm fairly new here so excuse me if it's been done before.
When dealing with something dangerous, such as lava or water, I have an idea of putting a small chamber between the main fort and the reservoir, or whatever may be a problem. Put a kitten inside, and then if something goes wrong then you will get an immediate warning.

What version are you playing?  Creatures go missing, there's no instant alarm.  Someone has to witness the death, or find the body, or else there's never a true alarm ringing.

Hmmm. I probably should have thought this through a bit more.

[Remuthra]

Interesting idea that I haven't seen before, but I'm fairly new here so excuse me if it's been done before.
When dealing with something dangerous, such as lava or water, I have an idea of putting a small chamber between the main fort and the reservoir, or whatever may be a problem. Put a kitten inside, and then if something goes wrong then you will get an immediate warning.

What version are you playing?  Creatures go missing, there's no instant alarm.  Someone has to witness the death, or find the body, or else there's never a true alarm ringing.

Hmmm. I probably should have thought this through a bit more.

As a more instant alarm, would it be possible to capture a single invader and place them in the room, so that when they die the siege will lift?

[Squill]

Interesting idea that I haven't seen before, but I'm fairly new here so excuse me if it's been done before.
When dealing with something dangerous, such as lava or water, I have an idea of putting a small chamber between the main fort and the reservoir, or whatever may be a problem. Put a kitten inside, and then if something goes wrong then you will get an immediate warning.

What version are you playing?  Creatures go missing, there's no instant alarm.  Someone has to witness the death, or find the body, or else there's never a true alarm ringing.

Hmmm. I probably should have thought this through a bit more.

As a more instant alarm, would it be possible to capture a single invader and place them in the room, so that when they die the siege will lift?

That would work better, but with an unfortunate lack of kitten drowning.

[ORCACommander]

a siege is broken when the invading force is to demoralized and begins to retreat. it does not require all of their deaths

[Remuthra]

a siege is broken when the invading force is to demoralized and begins to retreat. it does not require all of their deaths

What about megabeast sieges?

[Girlinhat]

a siege is broken when the invading force is to demoralized and begins to retreat. it does not require all of their deaths

What about megabeast sieges?

They don't siege.  They just show up.

[Tacomagic]

Noble with a food and drink delivery system.

[Girlinhat]

Noble with a food and drink delivery system.

You still don't get alerts when a single dwarf dies, there has to be a witness.

Better option?  Pressure plate, Support, and Floor Tile.  "A section of the cavern has collapsed!" is pretty obvious.  Just set the fall zone to an unoccupied section of the map so no one gets hurt.

[Tacomagic]

Could also build the chamber in question with a window into the main gathering hall.

But using a mechanized system with a roof collapse would prevent the bad thoughts of witnessing a noble get what he deserves die valiantly for the cause.

[forsaken1111]

so TWO dwarves with a fortification between them so they can see each other, but one is closer to the danger and one will usually die before the other so the other dwarf sees it happen.

[Girlinhat]

Granted at that point, you're tossing 2 dwarves away to do what one industrial machine could do...

[slothen]

The game pauses when an ambush is spotted.  I think that's all outside chained animals are really good for.