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Check out this micro water reactor. I made one the same as the one in the first graph. It's been working for years. I haven't tried multiple reactors linked together yet.

Gah, I'm not a fan of minecarts.  But if this works, maybe I will be.  It sounds doable, I'll give it a try.  Thanks for the help.

EDIT:  It worked.  Practically solid state.  Thanks again.

I have a goblin citizen in my settlement.  Assigned him to armor making.  Took me a while to notice that all the armor he's produced is sized for goblins.

I’m pretty sure goblins will only drink when force-fed by a poisoner.

Darn.  Apparently they're keeping themselves from alcohol and complaining about it.  I know people like that.  Thanks for the answer.

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I disagree with the idea of "generic" meditation.  From a gameplay perspective, meditating on a particular concept is a lot more interesting of an activity and tells you more about the belief system of the dwarf in question than simply "meditating".  Whether all meditation is, in fact, meditating on a concept - even if that concept is "emptiness" - is a philosophical discussion that goes beyond the scope of DF.

Meditating as a military order seems weird, but if meditation works the same way as worship, there probably should be a way for religious orders to schedule prayer gatherings, as scheduling gatherings at specific times (during which sermons, etc., could take place) is one of the primary functions of religions in the real world. For non-theistic orders, these could manifest as scheduled meditation.

Thanks for the feedback.

I think "scheduled meditation" is a good summary of the suggestion.  The player being able to get a group of dorfs in a room all meditating.  I was thinking generic meditation for simplicity's sake, and because it's a stereotype, but I'd be fine with them individually meditating on whatever they wanted to meditate on (after all, no one can tell what meditators are really meditating about).  That could be hilarious, actually, especially if one option is "Meditating on <favorite food/drink/acquaintance>", for example.

If the player could influence specific religious fervor somehow (lavish temple, more images), or the other things mentioned, that would be good, too.  But religion in DF is thick soup, so I didn't want to go there.

I truly hope those monks get a chance to meet that hydra.

Me, too.  The best possible addition to the temple, and the monks can find out if rebirth is as real as necromancy.  Biggest problem will be keeping all the legendary ax monks from mobbing His Exaltedness.  Good incentive to keep playing this one.

EDIT:  After hundreds of statues (a major export) and decorations, I got an image of Nongnob being struck down by an unnamed human over a hundred years ago.  Rest in peace, you rampaging devourer and object of belief.  Your cult will live forever!  (Note: With Nongnob decorations and statues all over, the number of Nongnob worshippers in Learnvault has gone up by one, without any new immigrants or residents.  Maybe it's working.)

EDIT2: It's not working.  My dorfs have sold over 1500 Nongnob statues and countless cloth/silk caps with Nongnob decorations.  No Nongnob worhippers, pilgrims, prophets or suspicious-looking hydras have manifested.

Tired of early game, decided to run a 100+ year fort.  "Creatureland the Monastery of Scholars" is a war animal research / breeding fortress for "The Theater of Wanes", the smallest of the three remaining dwarven civs, beset by goblins and badly in need of high quality war animals and (according to the Queen) "dogs the size of grizzlies".  Embark with a lot of dogs and some barely competent dwarves, only scientist is the book keeper, a math dwarf.  We'll get better scientists later, we're sure.

Things go well, we survive the wild life, set up crops, industry, clothes, defense.  Get two small immigrant waves, gives us 21 dwarves total.  Elf and human merchants drop by, bringing some promising creatures.  Lose a few dwarves: Drowning in the well, failed mood, miner killed digging out the pit.  Migrants pass us by for some reason... bump up the bribes to the merchants, keep going, lots of progress, no attacks.  Migrants pass us by again... huh?  Realize we've never seen the dwarven merchants.  Never seen any diplomats at all.  What?

Only one continent, so we're not isolated.  Civ/holdings map shows The Theater of Wanes is still there, although they've lost some ground to the suddenly more numerous gobs.  No new gobs between us... look at the civ/civ page.  Looks... isn't there a lot of W's on there?

The Theater of Wanes, our home civilization, has declared war on us.  Civil war, apparently. 

According to statues and stories in the tavern (seriously), the Theater of Wanes started when time began and has seen new king/queens on years 53, 56, 100, 110 and... midsummer 125.  Right after we left.  And the changes in 53 and 125, at least, were preceded by military events, or changes in military leadership.  Looks like we just missed a civil war – possibly a holy war, based on the new King Likot's past career as a “holy walk” in a popular religion.  Now we're refugees, or expatriots, take your pick.

Darn.  So immigration has stopped.  Remember the three casualties?  Two were each half of the only two couples in the fort, so no kids for a while.  Looks like we'll be recruiting out of the bars and library, then.  Unfortunately, while there are apparently plenty of bards, there are only three wandering scholars in the entire world, and while they visit here, they don't stop.  Better offers elsewhere, apparently.

Not exactly how I expected to start a hundred year fortress!