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I'd like to be able to see the summary screen of the area after embarking. I often get in and set about digging and then realise I've completely forgotten the approx. location of the features I wanted. I also like to see some of the facts again, like which civs are accessible and what stone I'll find.

All I'd want is to be able to place a stockpile over an edge.

I've really been thinking that the inability for dwarves to simply drop items off designated edges onto stockpiles is a strangely limiting factor in fortress design. I don't know how much damage goods take from falls, but I would be willing to risk it for certain things like ore and wood. This one thing would mean you could designate a wood drop from the surface to underground, with a stockpile at the bottom which could either be the final storage place, or it could be designated to move wood from that stockpile to another on the same level. I think many players have tried tweaking dump zones for this, but it seems time to allow the player to do this using stockpiles instead.

Simple but effective, no?

Regarding the weakness for tides that children have, does the restricted pathfinding zone apply to animals as it does to dwarves? Does it apply to children? The above example would be fantastic if you could stop children going near.

Dear dear. How did Adventure-mode skills get so low? Do we not need more things to do between releases? What about voting for things that increase Df's longevity, things that multiply the possibilities to the greatest extent? 

In hindsight, I'm still glad we've got this system here.   

These were fantastic podcasts, Rainseeker'n'Captntastic! After hearing the great recording and interviewing quality, it made me really proud to be part of this community. In Oz we have a great show I've been getting into called Q&A, which centres around audience, email, twitter and webcam users submitting questions to political and intellectual panelists. This show is a great example of how citing the authors of questions and quoting them verbatim seems like an honourable and respectful thing to do. While I love to hear how comfortable the interviewers and Toady are with one another, I'm more interested in hearing Toady's responses to the great questions put forward to him. I don't mean disrespect to Rainseeker and Captntastic, but I actually mean respect to the audience and the purpose of the podcast.

Keep it up!

P.S. I am quietly amazed and paranoid at how easily cats get their owners to sing for them! My own tune is "Tirrem is a cat, and he's very, very fat. He is a fat cat, fatty cat cat!" It is both classy and eloquent as you can probably tell.

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I just saw that bath tubs are in the dev notes - bloats. I've always felt three rooms for residences was always odd (mind the pun) for this square game, ie, bedroom, office, dining. A bathroom would even things out a bit and make apartments more like a bedsit.

I haven't suspended any constructions, no. I think the most likely answer is that it was marked for use in a previous attempt and never got properly removed from the job list.

There is no garbage dump in that tile, no, nor any of the others. The thing is, WITHOUT it being forbidden and WITHOUT a 'dump' tag next to it, all dwarves treat it as though it isn't there when ordered to use it (in the screenshot, the craftsdwarf is locked into that area and all OTHER stones are forbidden - he cancels his job instead of using the Cursed Rock), but when it comes time to build a workshop they suddenly remember it's there.

And...yeah, I tried channeling out the area but nothing came of it.
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Anyway, I figured out how to fix it using Tweak. I simply set the temperature in that tile temporarily to 65535, which caused the stone to instantly melt. Then I set the temperature back to normal. I don't like using a third party program like this but I can't find any other solutions... So if anyone has a similar problem, just melt the bloody thing and move on.

Do remember to set the temperature back, though, because dwarves are stupid.

With all that you've tried it definitely sounds pretty bugged to me.

But one last dumb question: When you say "There is no garbage dump in that tile, no, nor any of the others", then where IS your dumping zone for them to have dumped it?