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I'm very sorry to hear that, Amostubal. Your work on the project has been invaluable to me and i have appreciated (and looked forward to) every single update.

I hope that whatever the future might bring for you, it is great. Stay amazing!

My standard set up is a medium island (i've found regions make a few to many islands).

I typically up starting points to 4000 (but only ever spend some small fraction of that - it's mostly just if i want to do something radical or different).

I turn off aquifers just because i don't like the mechanic of them.

Other then that i leave it more or less at default.

I wonder if Teldin would be upset if someone updated the mod to work with the latest versions?

Or if we as a community could set up some kinda guideline for that, as a general concept.

I've ran into blendecs. It's a mixed bag: sometimes i wipe them out easy, sometimes they rend me apart. Total luck of the draw and circumstances, i think.

So far as strange encounters, the worst was a skeletal polar bear on a glacier. I'd assumed i could sneak up on it and nail it. I was horribly wrong, thing ripped pieces out of me i didn't know i even *had*.

I generally don't run into odd things, for whatever reason.

I employ a multi-Z level design, as such:

Ground: trading post. 2X2 downward shaft covered with hatch covers and surrounded by cage traps; this goes all the way down. If the magma comes up, it's walled off, floored off, and then turned into my magma work area.

Z-1: food production. Work shops. Storage for at least finished goods (easy access to trading post).

Z-2: usually nothing; i skip this to avoid "damp wall" syndrome, and sometimes to get to rock vs. clay/soil.

Z-3: Habitat level. Such wonders as barracks, rooms (2X2), Noble Room (20X20 usually), etc. All smoothed, engraved. Where i install artifact-grade furniture.

Z-4 and below: miscellaneous. Mostly strip mining, some other tasks.

The key is actually Z-1; all production is carried out there save magma works, and it's typically very fast. Since the shaft is well secured (usually cage traps, sometimes weapon traps) it's where most attacks fade out. As well, it's close to the depot, so it's fast to get stuff to the depot.

My other big innovation is the "noble room". What i do is establish a single large room, put all the nobles in it, and all the dining room stuff. The size makes it valuable; any artifacts or masterwork items just make it more so, and the engraving ups the ante yet more. As well, it's a nice place to put my show piece items and such. I'm *slowly* transitioning towards having several 20X20 bedroom areas, with beds packed in tightly. I figure i can fit something like 15X9 per room easily, having room left over for other value-boosting items. While this design does lose a little in terms of ease of killing dwarves who are injured/upset, it does gain in security and quick defense - only one door to lock.

I tried the "dropping a cavein to blow a hole to the chasm" trick, to no avail. It basically just had a huge pile of rock (and grass!) down at the very bottom level of my fort, sitting there staring at me.

Most unfortunate. Now if only i could find a way to get some spider silk naturally on this map.

I've often wondered this as well. It seems beds work that way in barracks (ie, any bed placed in the 'area' of the barracks will work as beds), but I'm not sure about dining room tables (and it would be a lot easier to hit Royal if this were the case).