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Especially now, that we have a great multitude of creatures (that can be turned into corpses) it would be great if we had a button for the stockpile creation to allow only butcherable corpses to be stored in a refuse pile (so that we can make a refuse pile for butcherable corpses near the butchers workshop/s that doesn't get flooded by unbutcherable corpses)

At the moment it seems to be a PITA, as you have to consult the DF wiki to find out (the many) non butcherable creatures and then search the non alphabetically sorted refuse-corpses list in order to find them and disallow their storage

As the topic says ...
coming from deep down below the soil one would assume water in wells to still remain fluid (soil is very good at keeping warmth, meaning that already a few centimeters below the surface it gets warmer than above thr siurface).

Considering the fact that the water in wells has only limitzed access to the outside air (more exactly, the part that is at the well shaft) and that most of the water that supplies the well is groundwater that is warmed by the soil deep below the surface, one would assume that the water within the well remains fluid.
One would also assume that the short travel of the bucket from the water level to the surface isn´t enough to turn all of the water into solid ice.

Therefore it would be nice if a well in Adventure mode (maybe also in dwarf mode) would supply us with fluid water, even if you have freezing temperatures outside (for example because it is winter)

At the moment in adventure mode it is rather cumbersome to navigate the trade screen of shopkeepers for items you are looking for,
as they are displayed in a long list and often (for example with leather items) their name exceeds the displayed number of characters (often forcing you to use (v)iew to check whether a certain item is of the needed category.

It would be helpful if the shop lists were ordered acording to categories, similar to the Fortress Mode trading system.

A clothing/Armor shop for example could have categories like
[Headwear]
[Bodywear]
[Legwear]
[Footwear]
[Gloves]

I am sure that this (if you are searching for certain items) would shorten the time you need to search for items by 75 %
(and yes, I am one of those people who really don´t get all of their items from catacombs and bandits, but (at least initially, until I am powerful enough to not end with a bolt in my head in case of bandit ambushes) try to buy my initial items from shops )

So is it me who does something wrong or is butchering in adventure mode somehow broken?

My adventurer (pikeman) has a companion who is bowman.
While traveling rthrough the wilderness we met a Tiercel Peregrine, which was shot on sight by the bowman.
I took the corpse into my left hand, dropped my pike and got my large copper dagger out of my backpack (and placed it into my right hand).
Then I tried to butcher it (x -> b -> enter) ... but nothing happens ... there is no option to select an item for butcher and the corpse stays a corpse instead of turning into multiple edible parts
I also tried to put the corpse on the ground and butcher it (while being in the same tile (and in a third attempt while being in an adjacent tile) but with the same result.

So is this tasty peregrine corpse doomed to rot away in my backpack with me being unable to butcher it, or is there any way that I overlooked? 

Lets say I want to build a channel that has a water source of a higher z-level,
but also an efflux out of the map by carved fortifications at the maps edge,
and also walkable tiles at each side of the river.

Something like this:
Sideview
S~
|~
|~
|~~~~~~~~=
----------
Channel from above
|++++++++++
|~~~~~~~~~~=
|++++++++++

Rear view
_   _
 |~|
  -

+ : walkable tile
S : water source (pressurized)
= : Fortifications at maps edge
~ : Channel tiles/water flow

So, which of the 2 possible scenarios will happen?
1. Water pressure will cause the channel to overflow and flood the walkable tiles next to it
2. Due to the efflux out of the map pressure will be drained off and the water willremain in its channel bed (without causing any floodings)

Normally I would build it myself for +science+, but maybe someone else already has tried this and therefore already knows what will happen

My fortress had a visit by a nice kobold thieve...
so, while he was busy fleeing, I thought, well, let a dwarf operate the spikes at the entrance of the fortress...
well, kobold thieves comes to the spikes and gets heavily wounded in the upper leg, with a fractured bone,
an opened artery and a severed motor nerve.
Kobold thieves stumbles for forward into the next tile,
which s full of weapon traps.
Kobold thieve falls and gives in to the pain
and afterwards gets hacked to tiny pieces by the giant steel axe blades of the weapon trap

Looks like the kobold trap immunity can get disabled by severe pain (and probably unconsciousness)

As the topic says:
At the moment, when you want to equip your soldiers with individual equipment,
all items of the type selected are shown (i.e. all weapons, all helmets...whatever you selected)
even those, already assigned to or equipped by other persons.

At the moment there is no way to distinguish equipped from unequipped items in this screen, so that it might well happen (and has happened to me), that you individually equip one dwarf with a weapon/armor and another dwarf to which this item originally was assigned loses this item from his inventory list (even if he already equipped and used it). All this happens woithout you getting informed.

Well, all in all this makes it almost impossible to really individually equip your military darves (especially if many of your items have the same quality level...if yor example you have 5  +steel battle axe+ you cannot distinguish one from another, especially as the list order in which equipment appears always is dependent of the distance from the individual dwarf, which you have selected).

So, what I would really like to see would color codes in the lists of the military equip-screen for armor already equipped/assigned to dwarves (for example red = item already equipped, blue = item already assigned, but not equipped yet) 

As stated above...
I wonder if DF2010 has any negative  effects from freezing  Biomes.

I embarked to the northern tip of my world and founded a fortress that is obviously freezing
(eveyrthing covered in snow all year long and the river permanently frozen).

According to the DF-Wiki from the last version freezing Biomes should pose certain dangers to dwarves and animals outside,
even being ableto kill them.

Well, almost a year has passed without anything bad happening, despite the fact that my meeting area is still at the wagon
(and, whereas my dwarves often go inside for jobs or hauling things there  should at least a few of my unowned animals who are constantly (or  nearly constantly)  outside).

So I wonder if maybe temperature effects for cold temperatures in DF2010 have been nerfed (or are buggy)