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I just found a way to transfer a hostile creature from one cage to another, without it running loose in your fortress: just build the two cages directly adjacent to each other and you can savely assign the creature to the new cage, reusing the old one in your traps.

One of the last updates had "enlarged coin stack sizes and decreased coin non-currency value". Was it realy intended that coins now all have a trade value of 1$, no matter what material? This somehow makes it rather pointless to make anything other than copper, maybe silver coins from time to time to keep the bookkeeper from going nuts.

I got a mandate for doing some carpenter's guild jobs. So my legendary Carpenter started to make some beds, but the mandate counter didn't decrease. After putting a normal dwarve on the job it worked fine. I'm not sure whether this is feature or bug, it could well be that it's intended that legendary dwarves are a kind of freelance artists outside the guild. But it's a bit annoying nevertheless to have to turn your best crafter off to get the job done.

It just happend to me (again): At the end of winter my dwarves started to starve, completly ignoring the nearly 100 prepared food items - just because those were stuck in the kitchens and not in a fitting stockpile. I finally realized that the reason for this suicidal ignorance probably is that all those meals appeare on the job list as part of inactive (i.e. waiting for a dwarf to perform) "hauling to barrel"-jobs.

At the moment items that are part of those inactive jobs seem to be off-limit for the dwarves when looking for food/materials etc. Would it be possible to make a dwarve that looks and doesn't find an item scan through the list of inactive jobs for a fitting item, snatching that item and cancelling the inactive job?

That would probably help not only with the starving  but with several "stupid behaviour" issues like lye rotting in the ashery or plants being dropped for some reason just lying around, as those all seem to be parts of inactive "hauling to barrel/bag" jobs.

In my last fortress I suddenly found myself in the posession of a "ruby amulet". As it doesn't have the <brackets> indicating that it's from outside, I somehow must have crafted it myself, but to my knowledge there is no "make gem craft" in any of the workshops.

Just to make it clear this was not an amulet encrusted with rubies (and I actually encrusted it later with some other gems), but seemed to be just like a "onyx" or "horse bone" amulet but made out of a ruby. Has anyone seen this before and knows how to make it?