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[Spitemaster]

Seriously though, I've had a number of injuries and a death from trees collapsing through the floor into my fort. D:  Do I just have to build deeper?

[Chevaleresse]

Underground trees do it too. Try colonizing the magma sea or HFS; you should be safe from the wooden death machines there.

[Jorn Stones]

This is why I didn't update to 40.04 right away lol. The moment I read something about the evil trees of death I was like 'I'll wait for 05'

[Larix]

You shouldn't have taken advice from those secret, dark and midnight hags. You might have become monarch, but now you're under siege by the woods _and_ soon enough a bunch of enemies clearly not of woman born(*) will be knocking on your doors.

(*) e.g. those created along with the world. Many also argue that "of woman" only specifies female _humans_, which makes the prophecy pretty useless.

[Untelligent]

Trees don't seem to collapse through floors when you chop them down, so keep an eye on the ground and send your treeslayers after any tree that sprouts up near your surface rooms (or in them).


The next patch will nerf tree spawn rates and prevent growing trees from poking holes in your ceiling, so that's good

[Dirac]

You shouldn't have taken advice from those secret, dark and midnight hags. You might have become monarch, but now you're under siege by the woods _and_ soon enough a bunch of enemies clearly not of woman born(*) will be knocking on your doors.

All he needs is a crazy wife complaining about persistent laundry stains and he's officially screwed.

[Verjigorm]

Dig deeper.   You're a dwarf.

[Urist McVoyager]

Dig a barracks underneath the third cavern layer, about five or more layers deeper than it. This will be your entire fortress. When you have a disciplined and battle-ready army, find the Candy, release the Clowns, and turn all of the Circus into your Fortress. Only then can you claim the mantle of the King of all Dwarves.

[Awessum Possum]

Huorns! 

[ELF-rhymer]

I wonder how noone suggested it before...
ahem...
POUR MAGMA AT IT, DAMMIT!

Seriously, they are just trees. I mean, they are made of wood. And well, wood - wood burns! Burn it all, and the problem is gone. Put some magma around top of your fortress, and you are safe from poking from outside.
Yees... only from outside...
I read this in "FacePalm moments"...

I noticed a fungiwood trunk in my barracks, so I chopped it down.


I forgot my barracks were just under the river, and the fungiwood had apparently poked a large hole in the riverbed. I managed to rescue the militia commander, her baby, and a stray cat before the flooding breached the doors, so my only losses are a bunch of equipment I bought from the caravan and some valuable space. I might be able to drain the barracks when the river freezes next winter.

So, if a tree will poke from the inside into the fiery magma poured on the outside, well. That's gonna !!hurt!!