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I'm trying to haul magma up to my fort, and my minecart is stuck. How is this supposed to work?

My current setup uses a roller on the highest setting in the tile next to the ramp up out of the magma and an iron minecart. (Here's a picture.) In testing, before I flooded the loading area, the cart popped back up out of the hole without a problem, but now that it's flooded, the cart is mostly just flashing back and forth between the roller tile and the ramp tile. Interestingly, it did get out once after being loaded, and was brought up and dumped as planned, but I'm having trouble repeating the trick, and according to the wiki this shouldn't be happening at all - if it worked once without magma it should work again any time I want it to.

Help?

On a whim, I modded the animal-person template to give all animalfolk the [pet] tag. I was expecting them to act like regular animals, or perhaps like tigermen used to. Instead, I got a bit of a surprise with my trained wrenfolk and bushtitfolk:

* They can be butchered, but the products won't be eaten, tanned, or even hauled, despite the fact that there are entries in the stockpile interface for them. The products also don't show up on the z-kitchen list and don't show up under 'meat' in the trading interface (haven't checked whether they turn up on search). I don't have a bonecrafting industry set up, but I expect that the bones won't be used for that, either. Eggs appear to be hauled as usual, though.

* They can be assigned to both pastures and burrows. I've confirmed that they respect burrow assignments; I believe that they respect pasture assignments, but I'm not sure what happens when they're assigned to both at the same time - their current assignment is an overlapping burrow and training-enabled pasture, just to be safe.

* They get thirsty, and will seek out water when they are. I suspect that they follow the same rules that dwarves do regarding thirst and burrows - I had a thirsty wren man in a burrow with a stagnant pool, and he declined to drink from it. I removed him from the burrow, and he went to the non-stagnant lake I'm embarked on and drank from the edge of that. I haven't checked on whether they'll use a well or not, and haven't tested whether they'll break their burrow or pasture assignments to drink.

* They get hungry, and seek out food. I've seen one (a wren) eat a fish-based roast. They appear to be able to take food from barrels.

* They get tired, and sleep. So far, they're sleeping on the ground in their area; I'm still putting rooms together for my dwarves but will be giving them some beds soon. It won't surprise me much if they can have rooms assigned to them.

* I think I saw one removing some construction - at least, he was in the right spot for it at the right time, even though it was well outside the burrow area and not someplace he would have been as a matter of course.

I've never kept tigermen, so I suppose I could be wrong about this being mostly new behavior, but I'm pretty sure tigerfolk care instructions were 'make sure they have water they can stand in to drink, and you're golden', and that's not what I'm seeing here at all.

What do we know about interactions?

Do we know what will happen if I change GCS'    [CAN_DO_INTERACTION:MATERIAL_EMISSION] [CDI:ADV_NAME:Spray web] [CDI:USAGE_HINT:ATTACK] to USAGE_HINT:GREETING?

I have a dwarf who got caught in a cage trap and dehydrated to death, and I can't seem to get the corpse out to bury it.

I know this comes up regularly, but I've tried all the advice I've seen about it, and nothing's working. The corpse has been marked for dumping, and I made a burrow for the cage and the garbage dump area and assigned all my dwarves to it with all the hauling labors active - no go. I tried building the cage and hooking it up to a lever - no go. I even tried forbidding all the other cages and building a cage trap for it to be installed in, since someone on an old thread said that their dwarves emptied a cage that way once. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work.

Is there anything else I can try, or is my fortress doomed to be haunted forever?

I'm trying to mod in stone hammers. So far so good, except that my military is now sparring with ☼sandy clay hammers☼. How do I make it so that they can only use actual stone?

I'd like to have a plant that can be grown from seeds, but that doesn't produce seeds when eaten or brewed. (The seeds would be produced by a special reaction.) Is that possible?

I'm considering making an creature raw template, with all the tags divided up into coherent sections and notes on everything, so that someone wanting to make a creature can just go section by section deleting anything superfluous and modifying the remainder.

Has something like this been done already? It seems like it'll be a lot of work, and I'd hate to find out that I'm just duplicating something.