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Lure, kill ASAP w/sharp objects

17 (15.6%)

Wall/fortify off, hope they don't come out

44 (40.4%)

Dogs are expendable!

4 (3.7%)

Cage them

27 (24.8%)

Other (specify)

17 (15.6%)

Total Members Voted: 109

[CobaltKobold]

What it says on the tin.

Post your expected losses, too.

Usually make steel picks (- to *) and lure them out/kill with miners, lose about three quarters of a dwarf on average. Could probably lower this if I took extra time to make some way of dousing a victorious but burning dwarf.

If dogs are brought, and they don't dive into magma, it seems to cost about 1 dog per imp.

[Karik]

I use marksdwarves, who usually have wardogs assigned, and kill all the imps with no losses, occasionally a dog if it decides to try swimming in the magma.

[Skorpion]

Other.
Route the caravans over/around the magma pipe. Let them do the killing for you.

That's only for an aboveground pipe, though. Underground, just wall 'em off.

[TKGP]

Initially I just wall it, then wrestle those assholes to death when I've got a bunch of champions.

[ungulateman]

Live with 'em, or wrestle them to death with miners.

Generally one miner at most dies, if I don't have channels to prevent them from walking in a straight line.

[derekiv]

Set them on fire. It always results in a giggle when I scroll down the units list and see deceased !!fire imps!! 

[They Got Leader]

I leave them be, usually. If its underground then i puncture the pipe, then seal it in. When I access it for my magmaworks, I just use a fortification-straining method. If above ground, I wait for them to come out and kill them one by one. Or wall it in (depending on various factors).

[Creaca]

After I have my forges supplyed with magma, (With fortifications to block the critters entry) I pump some water over the top layer of the pipe to create the future site for my Forts temple.

[Bauglir]

-snip-

[Quietust]

Other.

[CobaltKobold]

Quietust: text explanation, please, DFMA hasn't been working for me recently.

The main reason I made this poll is, it seems like most people tap the side of the pipe and ignore and then lose a non-insignificant fraction of their fort when a fire imp pops up.

And that seems strange to me.

[Rico21]

 I dig out the magma forge workshops very early in my fortress, usually the first rooms I dig out.  Then I set up 3 or 4 war dogs which are tied to ropes within the room that's then sealed by locked, tightly shut doors.  Lastly, I dig a channel tile and eventually the magma critters come and get killed by the dogs.  Usually the fire creatures are long gone by the first winter.
   If the top of the magma pipe is near my wagon at the beginning, I just tie up the dogs right next to the magma in a group and that's that.  Putting the dogs all close to each other usually ensures their survival, and then I remove those ropes and tie the war dogs near my entrance to stop thieves.

[Beanchubbs]

I usually dig into the side of it, and build a single exit for them. I chain a dog near the channel into the magma pipe and station a drafted lye maker in the cage trapped exit. When they see it, they pop up, and kill the dog, charge at the recruit, and get captured. I set them into a breeding chamber (modded them) and use a cage trap method to get some of them into the arena.

[darthbob88]

Quietust: text explanation, please, DFMA hasn't been working for me recently.

Standard cave-in trap, applied to the magma pipe. Dug out the ceiling over the magma trap, which was held up by a single support attached to a lever, then pulled the lever. Everything in the pipe was crushed fairly quickly.

[Quietust]

Granted, this was long after I had actually set up my magma workshops - I basically just used a screw pump to fill the magma reservoirs beforehand, and the pump's intake was also sourced through a fortification.