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This is odd, because I've been using a system where I have enemies come through a long spiral tunnel with archers behind fortifications on the inside of the spiral, and I've never once had one of my archers dodge through the fortifications, even though there have been plenty of crossbowmen among the raiders. As far as I can tell, the crossbowmen never shoot at my archers at all--there's a trench in between the enemies and the fortifications, so while my dwarves can get right up next to the fortifications, the enemy archers can't, and that will generally prevent them from shooting at all. Only highly skilled archers can shoot through fortifications they're not standing adjacent to, and few enemies are that skilled.

So...are you sure your dwarves are dodging straight through the fortifications rather than climbing over them somehow? If you construct the fortifications, I think you might need to also build a floor on top of each fortification.

My dwarven civilization has a wombat goddess named Doren. She's goddess of the mountains.

A goblin of the goblin civilization known as the Bronze Sin founded a cult of Doren called the Sect of Amethysts. The cult is associated with the Bronze Sin, not to my civilization, even though Doren is obviously not a Bronze Sin deity. 

Over time, more goblins joined the Sect of Amethysts, but then the group was religiously persecuted and dozens of its members were expelled from the Bronze Sin. One of those who was expelled wandered around for awhile, became an abbot of a monastery for the Sect of Amethysts, and then eventually joined my dwarven civilization. I assume he was drawn to our civilization as a place where his worship of Doren would be appreciated rather than persecuted. He then almost immediately became king for some reason, and led the dwarves in many successful battles against the necromancers before eventually being struck down 20 years later in one such battle.

I just kinda like the weirdness of this little group of goblins deciding to devote their lives to the worship of a dwarven mountain goddess, with some of them eventually just joining the dwarven civilization and going native. It mirrors what you sometimes see in real-life small religious movements. Like, you can imagine that a lot of the appeal is just that this dwarven religion seems sort of exotic to them. Religious rites in an unfamiliar language feel like they might, at last, hold the answers you've been looking for.

I don't know that you can fix that one wagon, but DFHack can make sure the rest of them leave safely, which will hopefully make them less mad at you than if they lost all the wagons. The commands you want are "caravan happy" and "caravan leave".

I caught a breeding pair of giant grizzly bears and they have successfully bred! In a few years I'm going to be leading out an army of 50 hippo-sized grizzly bears to wipe out the necromancers. Plus, they are adorable in GemSet:

I think the issues with burrows might also be what annoys me most. Burrows sound in theory so promising for so many purposes, and they're really necessary for dealing with danger. But the way they work isn't ideal, plus there are odd bugs, like when dwarves start spamming 100 job cancellations per second because they want to pick something up that's currently located outside the burrow, or because they happen to be carrying a book.

The other main candidate is military issues. It's a huge hassle getting archers to actually practice, and then there's no way to get them to actually function as archers without locking them in a room with no possible way they can reach the enemy. There's no way to tell soldiers to stand their ground even after seeing an enemy. When you station a squad somewhere, then change your mind and station them somewhere else, they'll still insist on finishing their trek to the first place (which you decided not to have them go to for a reason!!) before heading to the new location. I just hate losing soldiers to stupid crap like that.

Since I saw that neobit said it worked *once* and freezes ever since, I also tried running the world for a bit, quitting, then reloading it, and that did still work. I'll admit I didn't play for long either time though.

This is *such* an exciting project. Having unique portraits for each dwarf would do more for me than any tileset or other graphical improvement that could be made to the game. And the existing portraits look *so* good!

I'm really looking forward to seeing the female dwarves. Armokspeed!