New fortress in a new generated world in 34.08., so far hauling is nice, though it's a bit 'odd' that they use only the 3 wheelbarrows and nothing else if you assign three, so 20 others are idle that could haul the stuff in a quarter of the time, at minimum! But hey, that's only minor.
Now to the real thing: Dug the occasional 3x3 stairs straight down, hit all three caverns, walled the stairs off with the nice new and shiny blocks of shale and orthoclase, closed them completely 1 story high above ground. Troglodytes around, some blind cave ogres, all looking at my walls and moving along, since there's nothing to eat there. (Military snacks soon to be eaten)
After a while, above ground has been walled in too already, traps set, trade depot secured with a few bridges ... suddenly a lot of red text, 'cancels store item in stockpile, interrupted by cave crocodile' ... WTF? Oh hell, a cave croc in the sleeping area, how the <censored> did this one come to that place? Double checking all the accesspoints, nothing open, except for 'flying' beasts. But the occasional cave bat isn't such a big issue.
So, the cave croc causes a lot of havoc, my hunters are already there, shooting it with bone bolts and those they brought with them, the croc is completely red, everything damaged what can be damaged, but it won't die. One of the hunters goes to sleep, right in front of the crocodile and is being eaten. Seems like he's the best candidate for the next Darwin Award. I still don't know where the croc came from, but finally, another hunter makes a golden shot into the throat of the crocodile, opening an artery, killing the crocodile.
Conclusion: Wall off everything completely, not only the base level, seems like there are flying crocodiles. And, install some traps near the stairs.
Losses: 3 dorfs. One of them went to sleep in front of the crocodile, the other two were trying to get 2 boulders behind the crocodile, didn't forbid them fast enough, my fault.
Partial losses: one dorf lost his left lower arm, another one his left hand. Seems like these have been 'walk-by-bite-offs' -> "I need to get to my bed NOW, ignore that crocodile!"
Positive aspect: cave crocodile meat for breakfast.
Time to install my hospital, everything is ready so far, except the area assigned ...
edit: the occasional typos