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[ISGC]

you'd need a great many repeaters, demon chasing for eternity, perhaps carp
we need to decide on who the Hammerer will be, though, and maybe a dwarven Charon, to guide ne'er-do-well dwarves across the copious amounts of magma there sure will be!

[Jacob/Lee]

Half of those sins occur on a day-to-day basis.

[Djohaal]

Sobriety: Being forced to (not) drink dromedary milk forever and ever.
I really should get a copy of dante's inferno to think about this stuff... 

[Loyal]

Why would the Dwarven Inferno be the same as Dante's Inferno?

We need different circles for different crimes... In no particular order, and off the top of my head:

- Those who take breaks or (in previous versions) stop to eat or drink during critical moments. These dwarves are forced to work Masonry outside for eternity, for a fortress constantly under siege. Their constructions are brittle and fail as easily as a door, and upon death will reincarnate just outside the fortress, forever trying and failing to erect a protective wall.
- Those who make mandates and demands for things their kinsmen simply cannot reasonably provide. These dwarves are compelled to fulfill frequent, impossible mandates ("Make (3/3) Granite Beds") from an unforgiving Power That Is, being punished with hammerstrikes and additional mandates when they inevitably fail.
- Those who break covenant with the elves; It's fine if you kill them all on sight out of principle, but if you meet their diplomats and agree to uphold your woodcutting quota, you are expected to enforce it. Those who fail are forced to shave their beards and live quiet, peaceful afterlives in trees. Without beer.
- Those who cripple their brothers in sparring. These dwarves get their Lower Spine mangled every day by a Mining Pick guided by an unseen hand, and the pain never vanishes, the wound never scarring over.

[Pickled Tink]

It's nice to see that player cruelty extends to dwarves as well

This reminds me of the time I built a concentration camp in 40d.

It was great. All the migrants after the first 40 would be dropped into the camp. Any invaders would be stripped and dropped into the camp (Whereupon a violent brawl would break out). The map was extremely hot, the dwarves had a farm that they could only grow non edible surface crops on and had to eat vermin. Every now and then, I'd drop a few dozen tiles of water in for them to drink (Which fell into a water bowl constructed for them, which I could remotely drain if I as feeling evil). The only workshop inside was a butcher shop. The only job of the dwarves inside was to toss the corpses of the dead down a hole where the camp workers, living in luxury, would bury them.

If you really want to torture a dwarf, dig a channel 13 tiles long. These tiles, in order contain: Wolf, Hole, BEER!, empty, empty, empty, dwarf victim, empty, empty, empty, FOOD!, hole, Wolf.

Urist McVictim cancels drink, interrupted by wolf. Urist McVictim Cancels Eat, interrupted by wolf. The perfect fear trap (unless toady fixed the AI when I wasn't looking).

[Max White]

Reincarnated as an elf.

[Jetsquirrel]

Reincarnated as an elf.

OH GOD! How about a whipping machine?

[ISGC]

Reincarnated as an elf.

OH GOD! How about a whipping machine?

you could put whips in a weapon trap, right?

[darkflagrance]

I once read about a guy that stripped captured goblins and threw them into pits with a single, no-quality copper whip located deep within a glacier, causing them to freeze to death while being slowly flogged.

So the answer is yes.

[Evil One]

The punishment for all Dwarven crimes should be, to be chained in the booze storage with the booze just out of reach.

[NinjaE8825]

Actually, for nobles making unreasonable demands, I figure they're given a pick and told that they're fair game for demons until they're done, but they're free to dig themselves out
Of hell.
And we all know what Dwarf Hell's made of.

[TBot Alpha]

I once read about a guy that stripped captured goblins and threw them into pits with a single, no-quality copper whip located deep within a glacier, causing them to freeze to death while being slowly flogged.

So the answer is yes.

As I recall, he mixed in freezing water, too.

Basically, build a 10x10 room with floor grates dotted around, and pour freezing water from above through the holes. Cover all remaining floor tiles with whip-equipped weapon traps, and drop a prisoner in. They will then blunder around slowly being flogged to death as they wander from trap to trap, and the only safe spots pour freezing water on them.

Bam. Instant torture chamber.

[FreakyCheeseMan]

Whipping machines sound decent, but would only work if they passed out... though, I suppose I could cover the level in them, and only "drop" food down from a higher level.

Who thinks I can do this without a "demon" class of untortured worker-dwarves running the place?

[ISGC]

Who thinks I can do this without a "demon" class of untortured worker-dwarves running the place?

definitely, but it'd be tough
you would need to have your starting seven being "the artificers", with whatever you need, then repeaters for eternal torture chambers, magma mist fountains, oh, and make it a desert (maybe next to a goblin fortress for free obsidian and prisoners)

[Cal]

I would request a change of 'sins'
Liars Impossible Demand makers
Defilers Cat lovers
Thieves Party throwers
Betrayers of kin Slow Miners
Betrayers of state Doctors using Adamantine thread
Betrayers of god Armok
Mutineers Thirsty Millitary Dwarves
Murderers Nobles
Routers Booze wasters
Slavers Elf lovers