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So the thing that has bugged me about this game from the start is the appearance of the workshops.  I can't tell one workshop from the next, I can't even tell where the workshop starts and ends because it's a mess of random characters.  I hate how the workshops look.

Does anyone think there's any way to make workshops look... you know, like a building, with a wall around the outside, or some sort of cohesive look instead of the random jumble?

Not sure if I'm being really clear here.  I'm wondering if anybody has made a pack that modifies the appearance of workshops, or if someone knows how I could go about doing this myself.  Even if I can just change the characters that represent a workshop, that would be good enough.

I generally play without graphics so somethign with just the ASCII tiles is what I'm looking for, but if somebody already made a graphics pack that modifies the workshops I'd be willing to use that, or at least check out how they did it and do it for myself in ascii.

My dwarves have a nasty habit of falling into water/magma when fighting off creatures and being unable to get out and drowning.

They don't do it normally, they just fall a lot when they are fighting.  On one map, a couple trogdolytes pushed two entire 10-dwarf squads into the magma that they were fighting near.  On my current map, my first kobold thief drowned my 2-dwarf squad in the pools on the surface.

Why do they fall in SO MUCH?  It didn't bother me so much with the magma and the trogdolytes, but on my new map I've finally gotten the hang of squads and my fighters were legendary before they "fell".  And how do I prevent it, short of walling off said pits of liquid?  It's the worst bummer when you know you have an awesome army and they aren't able to fight because they just keep drowning themselves.

Is it a bug? Is it new? Should I report it? Or deal with it?   

Hey could I use burrows for this? Or will they just chase after the enemy no matter what burrow it's in?