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I dunno about hunting really, I haven't found it to be quite as effective in .12. Plant gathering is a pretty solid fallback though.

The most recent world I genned I don't think had any living goblins, but I didn't really look that hard. I know I haven't gotten any ambushers or sieges yet but my current fort is only population 7 with very little wealth, exported or otherwise. Admittedly it's like three years in but /shrug.

My FPS tends to be around 50ish, but only drops to like 35ish with a population of 100-120 dwarves. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong to make my initial embark so slow if my PC can obviously handle vastly increased pathfinding relatively well, but  the end result is that I tend to play with about 100 dwarves most of the time.

I've been considering doing a generational fortress though, just for the fun of it. Unless you choose an abominable embark an experienced player almost always does well enough to get the ridiculous migrant waves that come when you're starting out. With all those workers it's trivial to specialize, and with a bit of digging and some forethought you can pretty much have every industry your embark supports running full tilt by year three.

If you limit yourself to a much smaller labor pool though, you'll still have to be making tradeoff decisions well into the middle of the game. It also makes each loss of a dwarf something to be feared, since they'll be wearing a lot of hats.

I could swear that it didn't used to work this way. I agree that it certainly seems to behave this way now - but as of like 40d ish I seem to recall that objects linked to the lever's current state. At least, I thought I'd arranged a situation almost exactly like the OP is describing without any special considerations.

I don't have any of those old saves anymore though, so maybe I'm just crazy.

While having 7 states to work with would be interesting, you have to take noise into consideration. Same applies to real-world stuff.

There's 8 states for a tile in terms of liquid, if you include 0/7. But since I don't know how you'd make that trigger anything, I think you're correct to say there's only 7 states available for computing.

Realistically though, noise is a pretty big problem with DF machinery. Also processing speed - particularly for complex computers it can take a while for it to do its business. If your pressure plates were trying to differentiate between 3/7 and 4/7, you'd get a lot of random signals coming from the fluid's motion.

Also, magma is a horrible idea for any sort of practical computer, since it's soooooooo slow.

War Elephant: Oh, I say there, Bert, it would appear that somebody is trying to make off with the Master's remains.
War Elephant: Not a worry, William, I'll deal with it.

This made me laugh. I hadn't imagined them with posh British accents, but I'm sure it fits. Now we just need to mod in elephant-sized monocles.

I just tested mixing water & magma at the top Z-level of the arena, and the resulting rough-hewn rock walls stay in place. I'll leave testing this in Fortress mode to DF players more experienced than me, but this is tentative support for myth #2 being real.

Edit: There was nothing under the walls to support them, and nothing around them. The only place they could have been getting support from was the Top Of The Sky.

I think the only thing to do now is find some intrepid Proficient Architect/Mechanics and make a cast-obsidian Dwarven Space Elevator.

I wonder if there's any Hidden Fun Stuff on the Moon.