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Wards are immobile animals, like mines, I believe. Pasture them, and your dwarfs will drag them in place.

The majority of changes in the Masterwork Settings application require a regen.

The ones in the "Settings" tab don't, they specifically say that they don't need a regen.

I'd be ok with a spoiler section of some kind, with big warnings about "PROCEED ANY FURTHER AT YOUR PERIL" or something, that then provides all the necessary information.

Then you can document the changes you might have made to HFS or other stuff you may not want to mention upfront, and people that want to figure things out for themselves can still do so.

A hint. The passage to the circus is ALWAYS 4X4. As in, if you mine any of those 4X4 blocks, you enter the circus.

However, the passage only moves by one block in any direction between z levels.

As such, you can eliminate blocks that won't open the circus and safely mine those by either taking ones that aren't part of a 4X4 block, or by comparing to other 4X4 blocks on the lower z-level.

In the meantime, I just work with the bog standard Still "Brew Drinks" command and never build an actual Brewery. That, at least, we know works.

I've recently been trying to get a fortress going with a fairly standard setup, and no danger rooms at all. The problem is, it takes my militia forever to get anywhere with training, and I only rarely have anywhere near enough metal to outfit even a meager squad of 10.

Add to that that my dwarfs are pretty much always Partying or have No Job due to general uselessness (fishers on a map with no fish!), and therefore everyone knows everyone, meaning a tantrum spiral if someone dies, eliminating the "zerg rush, train the survivors" method, and I can't really get anything working.

So, yeah. How do I get a working military without the use of danger rooms? I've tried with danger rooms, and all that happens is I have 10 Legendary Everythings that obliterate sieges single handedly. I want a balance between "lololol crush everything" and "tantrum spiral".

Make use of the manager. Label the dwarf(s) you want to sacrifice, give him the Strand Extractor labor, then make sure he/she/they are the only ones allowed to use the temple. Eventually, they'll go down to the temple and sacrifice themself.