A sacred meadow is some sort of intelligent undead. This one used to be a dwarf (leftmost cage).
Finished the turn. Savegame:
https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=15979Two more dwarves died, while I was fighting bins. They were hauling items from a dump, while other items were being dumped from above. One of them was killed by a falling shield, another by a falling earring. By the way, the bins won. Two of them still contain an artifact that I didn't manage to remove.
I breached the second cavern layer. A bunch of troglodytes entered the fortress. They were outnumbered by the dwarves and quickly killed. All caverns are sealed now.
State of the fortress:
* I moved stuff from the general stockpile just below the surface to specialized stockpiles further down. This area has been walled off as a safety measure, because trees may punch holes in the top layer. See:
https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=8469* We have a functioning hospital. It has a well, soap, beds and everything.
* The entrance is protected with a trap hall. The three levers, from left to right: outer airlock, atom smasher, inner airlock.
* Near the dining room is an item dump with atom smasher (operated by the nearby lever) to get rid of crap.
* There's simple 1x3 bedrooms, enough for the time being.
* We are now at 23 adult dwarves, 9 babies and 3 lame artifacts.
* We do not yet have any sort of cloth industry.
* We have yet to dig down to magma. I built a smelter that runs on cokes, for now.
Delphonso, good luck!