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[Knick]

Clearly I am doing something wrong.  I recently had a fort (I abandoned it in the end), where nothing really happened.  I had one siege, a couple ambushes, all of which were easily addressed by my marksdwarves and champion wrestlers.  Even the demand for bisumth bronze only resulted in one death.

What I want is to create a mass-suicide machine.  I envisioned a legendary meeting hall, with a statue garden, lots of spikes and a level on repeat pull.  Alternately, has anyone expericmented wtih  spikes in a central location/ well traveled location, and pressure pads?  I am considering a hallway of spikes with pressure pads that leads to the only drink stockpile.

Any advice?

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Judging from your description, you are playing 40d or 40d#. 31.03 or 31.04 should offer you a lot more outside challenges that are guaranteed. And half of them can be triggered by your own actions (digging), so you are not on the mercy of goblins who are too scared to siege.

I know you asked about killing your own people, but that is not something I am dealing with in my fortresses.

Deathworks

[Knick]

Yes--using 40d.  My machine is old, so things were getting slow.  One possibility that suggested itself was to thin out the ranks a bit.

Unfortunately, the little buggers were happy and did not die, tantrum, or do anything.  The solution--a Jonestown style mass suicide.

[Foehamster]

Megaprojects.  You need cast obsidian towers much bigger than any dark fortress. You need aquifers and magmafers, a sewer system. Adventure mode puzzles, and deathraps. Flood the fortress lever, Drain the fortress lever.  Glowing pits if have them should be uncovered. Also grand tombs and interesting architecture.

Once that's done, mass suicide or simple abandon should be fine.

[Beeskee]

Megaprojects FTW.

One I tried was a skyway project (not too big, more of a mini-project)

One I heard of was a orbital magma dropping device: pump magma up to top floor of a constructed system that can then drop the magma onto any point on the map.

[HebaruSan]

Try tearing down the legendary meeting hall. This can make losing a dwarf or two to sieges far more consequential, if that's what you want.

I had a miserable dwarf murder my mayor during the meeting where they were talking about his feelings, in such a fort. Which I guess is awesome in a way, but I had invested a bit too much into the architecture to see it that way at the time.

[Safe-Keeper]

I had a miserable dwarf murder my mayor during the meeting where they were talking about his feelings, in such a fort. Which I guess is awesome in a way, but I had invested a bit too much into the architecture to see it that way at the time.

I suppose you had one insensitive mayor.

[gtmattz]

I am really suprised this has not been mentioned yet so here goes...

!!MAGMA!!

[Skorpion]

Drop a few tiles through the fort, top to bottom. Punch into hell with it.

[Beeskee]

!!MAGMA!!

I suggested orbital magma bombardment. Other people suggested cast obsidian projects.

But yes, magma is always fun. And usually FUN too.

WIKI has examples:  http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:Mega_construction

[Hyperturtle]

Well I found that whoever recommended making cats aquatic to quickly eliminate a cat problem, had good advice.

However the cat owner's are not so appreciative.  tantrums, fist fights, fighting, dying, friends and wives grieving, further tantrums... good times!

[Atredies]

another idea is orcs. 
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=26858.0

that's a great mod, but you need to generate a new world to put them in as their own civilization.
what you could do in this world is just edit the goblin size and damblock, and give them [TRAPAVOID] , [BUILDINGDESTROYER:(1or 2)] and anything else you can think of, then wait for the ambushes and sieges to start.

[Josephus]

Build a ceiling across the entire map, connected to a single pillar, to block out the rays of the filthy sun.

[Illeist]

Change the [POPULATION_NUMBER] and [CLUSTER_NUMBER] of giant cave spiders to 100:100 and add [CURIOUSBEAST_EATER] and [LIKES_FIGHTING].

This means an epic showdown of the ages between your dwarves and the encroaching, hungry spider hoards.

[Skorpion]

Build a ceiling across the entire map, connected to a single pillar, to block out the rays of the filthy sun.

Did that. DF couldn't handle it when someone collapsed the whole thing.