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I looked at his body and put 'dump' on, I have a refuse pile, AND a graveyard, and I don't know what to do now. Help?

Assuming nothing's changed in the new version, you need to zone a garbage dump for anything to happen to the item marked for 'dump'. The body is reserved for dumping and there's no designated zone. If you remove the dump instruction, they should take it to the refuse pile (otherwise create a zone for garbage and they'll dump him there).

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Not really, it's a lot of luck. Also try to avoid biome pairs where one isn't terrifying. Try to be deep into the terrifying lands, and you'll get more "terrifying" creatures.

This is the situation I've experienced; the only evil thing I've seen on my Terrifying/Untamed Wilds mix were a pack of dark gnomes.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen many savage things either.

Haven't played in a long time but I have this vague memory that only 1 dwarf can drink from a barrel at a time. If you don't have much booze then while a few drink, the rest make a path for water. They don't turn around if a barrel suddenly becomes unoccupied, and I suspect they won't attempt to drink booze until they are thirsty again. So you may have a long period when noone is drinking, and then everyone comes in at once and most end up on water again.

Well according to the wiki, if they touch mist they generate a "waterfall" thought. That is to say, there is only 1 thought - mist is the event and waterfall is its name. That's probably the cause of the confusion.

You could try changing its stage by e.g. encasing it on obsidian, or collapsing something on top of it. 

He already said he needs 1024x768.

NP. How did you end up capturing him? What tactic finally worked?

Capturing him was never the problem. A simple trick of forbidding the food/booze to make him walk, and a cage trap at the door. Initially he would go insane in the cage, or die of thirst (because he was already dehydrated in the earliest save) so I'd given up on trapping as a viable method. Once I got him watered via the well, and happy via assigned rooms and offices, caging was possible.

As part of his new facility I have an airlock in which (by locking and unlocking doors) I can easily place him on the cage trap, which is much more efficient. He has a private well, and keeps working even when hungry since he can't path to the food, so I only need to trap him when he is starving. Unfortunately for every period he spends pumping, he spends twice that time unconscious, so it will be a very long time until he is tough enough to eat on his own.

This made me laugh:

Meng Olinoddom has been ecstatic lately. He is happy to be free. He has complained of thirst lately. He received food recently. He admired a splendid Trap lately. He admired his own fine Door lately. He slept in a great bedroom recently. He received water recently. He was unable to find somebody in charge to yell at lately. He has been starving lately. He has complained of hunger lately.