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[Drakeero]

What if I want to get all those delicious underground tree/bush spores spread throughout my fort early?  So I go to an exact OPPOSITE corner of a LARGE embark map, dig a twisty search tunnel and hit a cavern.  Will the creatures then proceed to come out, journey to the surface, across three miles of jungle, and then through the front door of my fort?

[LoSboccacc]

depends on creature tags. mostly, yes.

[FleshForge]

In practice, if you set everyone to do mason labor, you can pop the cavern layers open and brick them up again before anything comes to bother you.  I've had stuff get through maybe one time, which taught me to be a lot quicker about securing whatever cavern space I'm going to try to hold.

[Vehudur]

Yes, they will.  And they will be angry, because you made them walk that far.  How rude.

[Pan]

 This reminds me of this: You could dig down into the clowns via a tunnel from the surface nowhere near your fort, put up a raised drawbridge (before breaching the circus). Whenever a tough siege comes along, pull the drawbridge lever. Hehe... worth a try.

[Rastaan]

This reminds me of this: You could dig down into the clowns via a tunnel from the surface nowhere near your fort, put up a raised drawbridge (before breaching the circus). Whenever a tough siege comes along, pull the drawbridge lever. Hehe... worth a try.

I'm not sure Toady intended us to use the scourge of all life as we know it as a defense mechanism.

[Zaerosz]

He didn't intend for us to do half the stuff we do every other day.

[Vehudur]

He didn't intend for us to do half the stuff we do every other day.

^

[Pan]

Every other day? That's how often you do crazy stuff? Kinda little, isn't it? 

[WrathNail]

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Dwarf Fortress: Redirecting the legions of Hell to protect the booze stock

[Shoku]

People are full of crap. The underground life won't try very hard to get at you. The most aggressive stuff will just attack anyone that goes near it except for specific things that don't show up until around a year in and you get that warning message for them anyway. You can open the place up, go in, chop down some trees, maybe dig a channel for magma someplace, and then wall it off.

Toady didn't want us finding the underground and then walling it off for later when we had some big army to deal with it. It's useful right away and only rarely more dangerous than being out on the surface. One guy can probably wall off a 10x10 area in the underground before you have any troubles.

Sure, sometimes you will break into the place right next to a tribe of antmen and they will rush out at you but the vast majority of the time you won't have to build a wall to keep vile death from flooding out of the place.

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Only the slade cavern works like that and it has no benefits so it is really just there to end your fort after you dig out enough adamantium. Or for you to kill the swarm and declare that your fort has withstood every challenge, which is also the end in a way.

[FleshForge]

I don't think anyone told him to brick up any breach the instant he touches the caverns, we're all kinda saying the same thing here.  However if you do leave the caverns unsecure, there's a strong chance that some FB with fire breath or poison gas will stroll into your fort at some point and fuck it up pretty nastily.

[Shoku]

"if you set everyone to do mason labor, you can pop the cavern layers open and brick them up again before anything comes to bother you"
Sounds a lot like "brick it up right away" to me.

[dragonshardz]

"Anything" likely refers to said big nasties.

[Shoku]

You don't need to enable masonry on everyone to seal it before those show up. You just need masonry on one dwarf or if you somehow get one that never leaves his workshop to go make your wall then on two of them. Enabling it on all of the dwarves is what implies that you have no time to spare.