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In the past, I made basic use of minecarts mainly to save haul time moving heavy raw resources from top to bottom of the fort. This time around I'd like to better integrate minecarts in my industry design.

I usually build my forts as multi z around central straircase but I am looking for any examples of minecart use that improve production workflow (industry/stockpile etc). So that I can have a rough idea how much space to pin down.

Not sure about DF save compression, I am using the lazy newb pack with default settings.  And the region folder in 'data\save' is a couple of hundred megabytes large, which isn't a great thing for my weak upload here. Will using 7-zip make a dent here?

The entry I read about savegame seem a little confusing, i'd rather not waste time on this and have the most optimal compression. Is there any easy to use tool that archive a savegame?

@Romi: Note that you can achieve it without DFHack by manually designating each sub standard tile for smoothing again (which of course is a pain, but if you're hard into perfect, that's the way to do it). It would presumably be possible to write a script that designated all non masterworks engravings for smoothing, although I don't know the details. In both cases the dorfs would actually do the work themselves, so it wouldn't be "cheating".

I didn't know that, I much prefer this safe and sound method, Thanks!  There is no need for the script i'll just redo everything.

After putting a little more play time, smoothed natural stone definitely can be climbed. Enemy siege troops consistently walk to the walls and climb them.

Here is some images: https://imgur.com/a/IvAL6mi
You can see the goblin spearmen at bottom left of z3.
The curving designation on z0 is to show its indeed all smoothed natural stone.

Also enemy crossbowmen love to turn the fortification against me. I think this ability to operate a crossbow while scaling the wall and use the embrasure from the opposite side seem a little bit too amazing. Only rivaled to the mid air fighting (I avoid this by limiting access to everywhere but the tower.)

If you have dfhack, there is option to enter and find a name, type in part of the first name to narrow selection. If there is no one with that name, then that's probably a vampire or some other miscreant.

I have DFhack and I used the search (q) to check the unit screens, trying both first and last name (in case there is some weird letter) I also tried dwardtherapist (with nothing hidden and no filters) same.

I accepted the petition just for fun, still don't see the name anywhere. Also I use custom profession for everyone, so usually anyone new stands out and I don't recall anyone (forgot to check unit count before to compare.)

If the applicant doesn't "exist" it's someone who uses a false name, which typically means they're a vampire or a spy. However, if you accept a spy as resident->citizen the resident acceptance immediately severs the ties to the old civ, and creates a new one with yours.

If so then its a spy, because I just used the option to check if there are any cursed units and there are none.

It is the cursor. no floors or anything else, that whole side has been channeled down into the rock layer and smoothed. I even smoothed over gems and metals to keep the shape along the whole perimeter. The wall/fortifications on top (several z higher) are built from common shale blocks.