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I found a link to some animal sprites. Maybe you can make use of them under stonesense.
http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/53552-whtdragons-animals-and-running-horses-now-with-more-dragons/

> start with two iron ore and three coal and you can make steel before summer starts. 
Hehe, I would usually embark with multiple coal, copper ore and tin ore (a little extra, as copper is common close to the surface and charcoal can be used for fuel) and have like 200+ bronze and coke bars for all my early military needs. Not as good as steel, but much better than copper and reasonably cheap.

> pegasai hauling
I never seem to have enough haulers, mostly because I divide my workforce into specialists (who still have at least some hauling enabled to have something to do when not needed) and generalists (hauling plus jobs where skill level doesn't matter much), which means they tend to walk a lot instead of staying in one general area.

I like the idea of having pegasai ranged squads. Maybe it's because while in the air, they can't be hurt by melee and have a good range over obstacles, but it doesn't work that well in practice. They tend to be low on ammo (supposedly fixed in the newest version), rush in one by one, stay on the ground or do other silly things and get hurt. On the plus side, their good speed helps with reload and firing speed a bit.

Dwarf Fortress should really have a settable job priority system. Even a simple one, like Rimworld's 4 priorities, would go a long way.

I think one idea worth thinking about for if fliers are having their flier tag removed is also having them be naturally good climbers so it is almost as if they can fly.

+1 (I did like fliers and didn't mind the ramps, but bumping into trees and dropping stuff like Derpy on booze is annoying)

If you want magic spells for Alicorns, take a look at Fallout Equestria mod. It has "bind" (slow down with telekinesis), "shield" (resistance to damage), celerity and some other spells and even a system of 4 schools of magic with most Unicorns only able to learn basic spells in one school, but some CMs able to learn all schools and use more powerful versions from their own school.

> I just realised that hired mercenaries would lay eggs. Would you rather leaves this behaviour in or leave it out?
Uhm undecided, but I guess not. Using Gryphoon eggs for cooking is undesireable.
Eggs could probably be made to work with forbidding all the nests, but which caste of Gryphins would actually hatch? It would work if you got the basic Gryphins from eggs, then upgrade them normally when they grom up in several years. It can probably be achieved by making caste frequencies high for standard Gryphins and low for the upgrades.

Oh and do give us a reaction to strip weapons and armour from upgraded Griffin corpses, like with Steel Rangers, except with a good yield. That way giving them good stuff will be less of a waste.

> Talon Mercenaries.
Sure, I can use powerful pets. There should be several tiers, with varying levels of protection and firepower. The last being on-par with minigun Steel Rangers.

> Brahmin Expedition.
That sounds like a pretty good idea, actually. Well, except I hate anything that grazes and would prefer to use a dog or a chicken, but a Brahmin makes more sense in-fluff.

> Okay, so unicorns under the effects of Steadfast Ward will be immune.
If it is a touch thing (and I'm pretty sure it is, then Hazmat Suit, Power Armour and other environmentally sealed suits should work as well. That would be powerful, but Power Armour is hard to get anyway.

> Anyway, some suggestions will be nice as to how spontaneous blisters/necrosis/whatever will be (somehow) funny.
They don't all have to be quite so funny. Something similar to radiation poisoning from ghouls would work IMO.

> Also, I'm going to add in a useless "weed" plant for the purpose of making useful plants rarer in non-good biomes to make good biomes more attractive.
Make it at the very least cookable value 1 or something. I hate it when my plant stockpiles get clogged with useless stuff, like dye-only plants. But then, I suppose, I could disable that particular plant for all my stockpiles... if I remember to do that.

> Also, testing the killing joke out finds their bodies are very squishy due to being made of plant stuff.
Then make it spawn in swarms. The particular plants will be squashy, but with enough of them, the interactions will start flying. Add something similar to bind spell and ghould rad burst, make it climb well and it becomes really scary (unless SHIELD_ADEPT and SHIELD_MASTER protect from some of it's syndromes). Also see if it will DIAF against a flamethrower turret, because if yes, then forest fires might be a preferred way to deal with it. (Well, Red Eye did use a lot of flamethrower fuel).