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I think most players, if they bother, trade for the exotic animals they somethings bring.  I mean who is not going to want a giant tiger for the front entrance.
I personally feel elves as trade partners were nerfed a few releases ago because they used to bring good quantities of food and wood if you were running low.   Then they stopped leaving only the animals as an interesting trade item.

Was the stream or river on the bottom level still frozen?  I've heard of situations before where this would mean the waterfall keeps falling and there's no river in which the water can go,  hence it floods.

Well.  I personally find dorms to be a good temporary solution.  I'll usually dig out some basic dorms quick and put in like 10 beds.  This should reduce the bad thoughts to a reasonable level while giving you some time to prepare other more pressing matters like food water booze and protection.  After that's in hand I usually circle back and dig out nicer bedrooms.  But this is just my playstyle.

Couldn't agree more.  I'm personally very much looking forward to creating the Dwarven library of Alexandria.   Gonna put everything on papyrus scrolls for realism too.

I second shonai_dweller's comment.

While I know that df and Tolkien's world's aren't necessarily the same, I'm really surprised that no one has yet referenced the Arkenstone from Tolkien mythology in this thread.  While it's never really explained what it is or what it does, it had value to the dwarves. It could easily work its way into religious scenarios and or wars to possess the stone, or to rescue it from a dragon.  And there were several instances of alternate jewels or artifacts in the literature, such as the silmaril, the rings obviously, necklaces, etc. Some of these obviously had power, but was largely uncontrollable by any mortal - supposedly the wizards might be able to wield them,  but they were basically gods given human form. I love the idea of super jewels by the way. 

I was just in a similar position because I started building a bunch of cage traps without the cages to load them with.  I was getting a lot of cage not available spam and my idlers refused to do other jobs until the cage traps were filled. Once I got enough cages it took care of itself.  Did you do something similar recently?  Maybe not necessarily with cage traps but anything where they couldn't complete another task?

Can you be more specific in terms of how much armor they have on (so much they are slow doesn't help) and which skills you are talking about.?