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[LegoLord]

Well, thankfully I have plenty of iron to work with for this on the map.

I am gonna try and avoid altering the cave as much as possible.

Oh, for those a bit curious as to what can show up in caves, here are some of the more interesting caves I noticed in a text file the game gave me after exporting an image, and the source for this fun idea.

Cave 1

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Opiutesh, "Covercrevice", a cave
   1 dragon
   1 giant jaguar
   19 troglodytes
   26 naked mole dogs
   18 ratmen
   18 antmen
   3 giant cave spiders
   376 bats

Cave 2

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Siminrushan, "Entrancecavern", a cave
   1 cyclops
   23 naked mole dogs
   16 giant rats
   25 antmen
   1 gremlin
   7 giant cave spiders
   463 cave spiders
   312 bats

Cave 3

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Becors rek Idgagugosh, "Temptedechoes the Subordinate Hollow", a cave
   3 giants
   19 giant cave swallows
   4 giant cave spiders
   24 ratmen
   27 giant moles
   13 giant bats
   273 bats
   265 cave spiders

I do have to say, depending on what and where things in a cave show up things could become quite interesting. None of these are from the world I am  currently playing in, just a teaser of how challenging addapting a cave to a fort could be.

I had no idea that could be done.  This should prove very helpful.
It's weird, I had the idea for a pressure plate regulated reservoir just after reading the OP but before reading the first suggestion.  Strange I didn't think of it before, it's a problem I had been wondering about for awhile.

[Andir]

Can anyone give hints on finding such caves?  I've found a few caves embarking at random, but they were no more than a 10x10 area at most.

[Aqizzar]

Can anyone give hints on finding such caves?  I've found a few caves embarking at random, but they were no more than a 10x10 area at most.

There's a worldgen option to make caves visible, and up their size and frequency as well.  But you have to do it at worldgen.

What I want to know is where you guys are getting all these way cool creatures in big caves.  I've embarked on a few of these and the best I got was a little bit of cave with three trolls.  I know there's the option for cave sizes, but I've never seen a big one in the new versions.  (I'm certainly not hoping for the old-style mating-octopi caves, but something a little larger than a half-dozen rooms would be nice.)