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So I've had a pretty busy year and am just getting into the 2012 version of DF.

I had a mason roasted by a fireball and burned up so I'm trying to memorialize him so he doesn't come back to haunt me.

I constructed some slabs in the mason's shop. They are in the stockpile and are constructable so not flagged for hauling or anything like that. I set up the engrave memorial job in the craft shop and it is immediately cancelled because "needs unengraved slab". What gives?

I've never been able to get my dwarves to train in any other way than individual combat drills. Furthermore, they seem to level up one or two skills(like fighting and dodging) to legendary pretty quickly, while things like weapon skills are still dabbling. Most of the time they are using the correct weapons and armor, although they seem to switch them out a lot. So how does one get dwarves to do demonstrations and/or sparring? I'm not really interested in things like danger rooms.

My fort was going along pretty well when my first wave of immigrants came along. Of course they had to follow the river's edge as they came. Then..

Cue ranger joke here.

Elephant of the deep.

With a limb fetish.

The last image is edited a little to show the riverbed and bank at the same time. That bridge is the only entrance to my fort, so I'm pretty much under siege at the moment. Guess I need to train some speardwarves.

Is there any way to remove those mud/dirt tiles that remain for years after a portion of your fortress has flooded? They seem to be preventing the human caravans from reaching my trade depot.

I have a single batman holding my entire fortress under siege. He's hovering one level up just outside my gate and none of my dwarves will go near him other than the marksdwarves. They've shot off all their bolts long ago and now just stand around underneath him scratching their beards. It has effectively brought my fort grinding to a halt.

The problem as I see it is it is way too hard for marksdwarves to hit something one level above them. They have no problem hitting the same creatures on the same level as themselves. Other than building archer towers all over there seems to be no way to deal with flying enemies.

I tried using the flow.exe utility on the wiki to change a magma-filled channel into a magma flow. However it only changed it into "magma". It is now neither a flow nor a channel. Has anyone else had experience with using this utility? Is there a way to fix it now or do I need to just write the fortress off?

I searched the known bugs for this so forgive me if it has already been noted.

My bookkeeper is so good he can count the webs of spiders in an undiscovered cave inside my mountain.