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In possibly the silliest mistake I've ever made I breached the side of a magma pool to get a quicker look at the extent of the magma sea, and that was fine. It started leaking magma into the 3rd cavern but I channeled some ditches and built walls on the far side to halt the flood, problem solved.

Fast forward a bit and I'm getting "No water source" cancellation spam. A quick check of the well reveals it's dry. That shouldn't be possible, it's fed by the small edge of map pond in the 3rd cavern that is the only source of water on the map. Said pond is currently covered in magma, because for some reason I don't think magma had pressure, and that it would stop if it encountered something it couldn't just flow down over the edge of.

Now I'm organising the controlled cave-in stone plugs I should've have made to begin with. I sure hope we can mine out our water source again... 

Haven't found its entry on the tracker but I believe you may be suffering from an old bug mentioned in this thread.

For brevity though the relevant part is "Because of a bug in fortress mode, only the racial average specified in the raws will be taken into account when a dwarf goes to choose a weapon, as opposed to the dwarf's individual size, so they will never take a weapon with a minimum size of over 60000, even if they would be large enough to use it just fine."

Someone who is less inept at using the tracker should be able to find it's entry and figure out if it ever got fixed.
As also mentioned in that thread though, lowering the size requirement on the weapons by a fraction would probably be the least game breaking fix.

Quote from: muldrake on April 20, 2018, 10:12:46 pm

Spiked balls because they can turn wood into something worth more than its weight in gold.  As well as actually being used in traps.

I don't understand this.

Referring to trap components being a high value basically weightless trade item. Spiked wooden balls are dirt cheap to make on any map with trees and start at 126 dorfbucks each, compared to the 3 bucks each log is worth. A decently skilled carpenter will soon start pumping out masterworks worth around 1500 dorfbucks each. Like prepared meals they're valuable to the point of being exploity.

A quick search fails to find any info on the wiki, but there's a theory that dwarves only spar when their weapon skill levels are relatively equal.
With the Drill Sargent being so much more skilled than the rest of his squad could that be causing them to put off sparring until they've caught up to him a bit more?

I can help with the dumping.

Hit d-b-d and then mark out a rectangle, everything inside is now marked for dumping.
In the same d-b menu you will also find mass forbidding, reclaiming and melting. All very useful to have.
Can't say if they're DfHack or not, since I don't play without it.

This happens if temperature is turned off, area remains hot forever, to fix turn temperature back on in the init.

Tometowers keeps on keeping on after another lengthy break.

A useless hunter got killed by a wolverine.
Goblinite delivery let me test the new bunker and its working great, would be better if idiots didn't insist on hauling the gold doors they finally got up the mountain halfway back down it. 
Palace throne room is 80% done, as is the royal quarters. Monarch finally living in mountaintop palace as was the fort's goal all along.
Human caravan exploded self again. Bizarrely in the one area I can guarantee there are no body parts. 
Got another artifact floodgate, that makes 3 artifact floodgates and two grates. I guess this a sign from the gods I need to build some sort of unnecessarily complex plumbing system.