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Give the CLA Graphic Set a whirl -- it's a very smooth and clean graphic set which adheres to the purity of ASCII while being easy on the eyes.

Simplest way to me would be a double airlock method:

Have three rows of rooms. The top row is the top airlock, the middle row is the prison room, the bottom row is the bottom airlock. When an airlock is closed, a prisoner has access to that airlock but the general fortress doesn't. When an airlock is open, a prisoner does NOT have access to that airlock, but the general fortress does. Have a lever set up such the airlocks go between two states:

• Top airlock open, bottom airlock closed
• Top airlock closed, bottom airlock open

Each airlock contains a stockpile of food and booze. Thus while the top airlocks are closed, you can refill the bottom airlocks. Once the top stockpiles are emptied, flick the lever and the prisoners now have access to the bottom airlock while you refill the top airlock.

Note: it's probably simpler to have the lever which controls the airlocks within the prisoner's own room, so you ensure that the prisoner is always outside of the airlocks when the states are flipped. On the other hand, that might break the spirit of them being a prisoner.

Thanks for the quick update!

Hey Meph,

One issue I think which may have been overlooked (or maybe it's completely intentional! I'm asking now) is that while dwarves can now craft practically every weapon, many of these aren't actually useable since they use the same minium size requirements as vanilla. See the weapon size section of the weapon article on the wiki which states that all dwarves vary in size and all weapons require a minimum size to equip at all (two-handed) or one-handed. Effectively, it means that for certain weapons like pikes, mauls and halberds, the great majority of most dwarves cannot even equip them.

If this is intentional, that's fine by me. A little note in the manual about that would be nice though, that although all weapons can be crafted not all of them are effectively useable.

I also designed a queue, but it is more complicated and plagued by problems I'm not quite sure how to solve, like how to enqueue a cart without also dequeueing one, and how to keep the queue from migrating to the left until it jams, and how to easily clear and initialize the queue.  I might post it later.

Off the top of my head: pressure plates linked to a bridge at one end of the queue? More bridges to just drop all the carts down a level to empty it quickly?

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but your statement leads me to believe that you didn't quite grasp Calech's point:

After X years (I think the default is after 100 years) of worldgen, the game will begin to check if a certain % of megabeasts are dead (I think the default is 80%).

So, to give an extreme example with default values, if every single megabeast is wiped out before 100 years, worldgen will immediately stop on year 100. If every megabeast somehow survives to year 101 then they all simultaneously die in year 102, worldgen will stop on year 102.

Using masterworks too, I got an iridium living armor!

I think the living armor is flavour text for breastplate though.

Anyone know what saw dust/ scrap logs are good for?

You get 2 scrap logs per rough wood log. Splitting it into 2 gives you more wood at the cost of value. So don't use it to make beds or other furniture, but charcoal, barrels or paper work out nicely.