in all fairness though they're very cute and there's nothing wrong with making the entire outside portion of your fortress a giant equine/goat/cat/bird sanctuary for your animal trainers to frolic in while you send miner after miner to their watery graves (after all three of the fortress' military squads were killed or maimed fighting two forgotten beasts that made their way out of the caverns into the hallway leading up to the fortress) in the cavern fifteen layers beneath all the unicorn vomit....we're rich in rope reed and barley
i always build drawbridges to block off the hallways leading to the caverns. even forgotten beasts can't break drawbridges.
i was a fool to think that the winding, narrow hallways and single tile stairways leading down to the cavern sea would protect me. rip like 40 dwarves but we march onward
ah yes, forgotten beasts are very big but all creatures take up exactly one tile so they still fit, unfortunately
have you put them in coffins and inscribed memorial slabs? if not you're going to have 40 ghost dwarves, soon
:') the third pic in my OP has the previous hammerdwarf leader of one of the militias just standing there amidst the forgotten beast bones and other decomposed corpses that have yet to be added into the never-ending coffin construction waitlist like
Can you still atom-smash anything out of existence with a drawbridge?
yep, drawbridges still transition instantly from "closed" to "open", and anything caught underneath when it opens back up will be rendered incompatible with existence and erased before it even has time to realize what happened
except for forgotten beasts, which i think prevent it from opening?