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[Arkenstone]

IDK, but it'll probably stun it long enough for the cage trap it's walking on to spring.

[VerdantSF]

IDK, but it'll probably stun it long enough for the cage trap it's walking on to spring.

I could've sworn that I read that certain mega/forgotten beasts are now stun immune and thus cannot be trapped at all. I sure hope a direct hit in a cave-in still manages to kill!

[Arkenstone]

Really?  That's Fun....

[HmH]

Shrike, 1) Fortifications prevent cave-ins, use buildings instead.
2) Cave-ins still instakill, regardless of their material.

RNG, just in case your fortress design did not account orbital bombardment, build the traps on additional wall layering. They-mess-design-up problem solved.
Problems with reusability should be solved by loading more than one cave-in charge and recharging your traps frequently. To do so, use hanging supports(example is in spoiler).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Side view:
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_ is floor, I is support, & is target.

[Quantum Toast]

I thought constructions break apart into their materials if you drop them?

Still, even if they do, I guess there's always obsidian-casting to load the trap.

[HmH]

Yeah, they break apart if dropped, but first they break apart everything below them. Figuratively speaking, because cave-ins don't harm any items and leave corpses intact.

[Dorf3000]

Perhaps as a compromise with the people who don't like to build traps or any kind of 'doomsday device' style defences, the FBs and other really epic superbeasts should spawn less often.  Getting one every year kind of lessens the "OMGWTFRUNNN!!" factor.  In my mind, when they come it should be like opening the HFS in the last version: difficult to defeat without serious preparation, but definitely possible.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Shrike, 1) Fortifications prevent cave-ins, use buildings instead.
2) Cave-ins still instakill, regardless of their material.

RNG, just in case your fortress design did not account orbital bombardment, build the traps on additional wall layering. They-mess-design-up problem solved.
Problems with reusability should be solved by loading more than one cave-in charge and recharging your traps frequently. To do so, use hanging supports(example is in spoiler).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Side view:
    _____
____I____
____I____
____I____
____I____
____&____
_ is floor, I is support, & is target.

Ohh... that's a good idea. Thanks.

Still, even if they do, I guess there's always obsidian-casting to load the trap.

Good idea, but if you have obsidian casting, why not just encase them? Other than that... yeah, it could work.

[Satarus]

Stun, unconscious, and web are the 3 ways to overcome TRAPAVOID.  If they have explicit immunity to all 3, there is no way to cage them.

[HmH]

Stun, unconscious, and web are the 3 2 ways to overcome TRAPAVOID.  If they have explicit immunity to all 3 2, there is no way to cage them.

Fixed.

[Satarus]

Coulda swore stunned creatures set off traps.

[highholyme]

If your not adverse to modding, you could use dfhack to drop magma, then water on it.

Pyrogenic Freezing. Cures all ills.

[HmH]

Coulda swore stunned creatures set off traps.

They don't, just checked it on .31.