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true dwarves die horrible aquifer related deaths and throw their friends into fits of insanity.

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I finally figured out how wild animals keep getting loose...  trading them at the depot is bugged; as soon as a dwarf grabs their cage, the critter is set loose.

Mildly annoying with unicorns; genuine Fun with cave crocs, herds of elk birds, and giant rats.

you can stop this from happening by choosing the animals you want to trade from the pets list instead of from the "all" list (or any other list for that matter).  I forget how I found this out, but it works fine for me this way.

I've gotta say, this is the most interesting thing I've read in a forum game section in a long time.  I just wanted to say keep this stuff up!  MY ENTERTAINMENT DEPENDS ON IT! *gasp!*

9/10 pylons
you must construct more pylons

Dag, what a submissive population.

H'ok so, My fortress has very recently (after 6 years)developed an issue.  I get unending spam from multiple dwarves, be they attempting to eat or drink or equip gear, where I see "urist mclost cancels _____:  cannot find path".  I can't figure out what's preventing all of them from doing their seemingly unrelated tasks.  They have clear routes to everywhere on the map, and as far as I can see there is no hidden cache of junk that they're all trying to get to but can't due to magma or it being underwater or somesuch.  I would just shut off job cancellation warnings but, y'know, I kind of like knowing when someone's running from a herd of cave beasts that need to have justice visited upon their miserable, stinking cave-heads.  I don't expect that this is an issue you'll be able to help with too much without being able to see my fort, but I was hoping that some of you have had this issue as well, and could tell me how/if you resolved it.  If there's a post on this already, I couldn't find it in the search, and the wiki didn't turn up anything immediately either.  I searched under "could not find path" and screened the results, but nothing seemed especially relevant.  So, sorry if this is a really dumb question, I'm still only at adequate skill level for fortcrafting and all my social skills are stuck at dabbling. 

*edit;  after some further experimentation, I've found that the dwarves generating the issues won't move to do anything, even in a squad with a station command.  It is as though they've been stricken with rapid onset dwarven retardation, which just raises further questions for me.*

I'm sort of wondering about that, too.  I see them occasionally leave their posts at the top of my tower to go get more bolts, but it seems like more often than not they just sit there and wait, or worse, try to *shudder*melee.
As far as the bolts go, someone in another thread a while back suggested forbidding the bolts you want to save until you want them to use them, but I think that would be a bit too inconvenient.  I don't know about you, but I usually don't have a whole lot of time to shuffle around and trick dwarves into picking a certain ammo while a FB eats all my woodcutters.  Also, if they carry a quiver full of forbidden bolts, I would imagine they might just stop shooting completely until you free them up again.