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[Warlord255]

Just a question; when you explore old Fortresses, what carries over?

Do bones/corpses/dwarves stay where you left them? Items, if locked in a room? Do monsters spawn inside the fort, or do ones captured there stay?

Also, is there a way to make a fortress lever or somesuch require an item to be found in the world, such as a key?

I know Levers and associated mechanisms remain in place, but beyond that...I dunno.

I ask because I have some rather epic plans for when the Army Arc comes out.

[Jay]

All buildings stay.
All items stay, but are scattered if they're above a certain wait, no matter where they are.
Creatures in cages die AFAIK
Creatures are spawned depending on where your fort is located, goblins will be spawned if you abandon while there's a siege or ambush that's visible to you.
Bones/corpses decay.
Dwarves will stay but will leave very soon after you start Adventure, so you have to be fast to catch them if it's even possible at all.
No way to make levers require something.  Keys don't exist at all.

[RebelZhouYuWu]

Creatures in cages do not die but instead have a chance to escape, causing them to leave the fort, also only some of your dwarves will stay and those that do will be scattered around.  Abandoning near a chasm or when you frist breach HFS is the best way to fill your keep with monsters.

[Reasonableman]

Keys'd be hella kewl. You get a locksmith, he makes a key at a locksmith's shop out of one mechanism, you get him to assign a key to any item, door, lever, etc., and he uses another mechanism for the lock. Then you assign the key to a dwarf, and only he can open the door or use the lever, unless someone else takes the key. A locksmith with equal or greater skill than the quality of the lock can unlock it, and one with greater skill can fashion a new key. Opens up all kinds of possibilities: pickpocketing is one of them. Lockpicking is another. Be kinda useless until adventure mode is more interesting, though.

[Jay]

Keys'd be hella kewl.

Ohai.  Should send that to suggestions forum.

[Warlord255]

Keys'd be hella kewl.

Ohai.  Should send that to suggestions forum.

Indeed.

In a rather circular bit of logic, though, adding keys - and perhaps allowing players to, say, construct elaborate temples to be unlocked by Adventurers searching the world for keys - would be one way to make adventure mode more interesting.

[Reasonableman]

I'm willing to bet it's been suggested before, and perhaps is already somewhere in the planned features list.