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Self Cooking Plump Helmet Roasts! Just add Forgotten Beast!

I'll buy 15! Mmhmm, the sweet taste of plump helmet roast, with no effort at all!

Any footwear your dwarves will happen to be wearing will stop the blood going through and killing them, but they will carry it around the fortress if not properly washed off.
This is why dwarven children die so often when a FB appears and you haven't prepped a cleaning pool, they walk through the blood that the military/civilians bring in and contract whatever the blood does.

As for using FB as a potential weapon against gobs, I have no idea. Assuming you could get the blood to them by spreading it through walking, my guess would be yes, yes it would kill the gobs (assuming they have no footwear on).

The only way I know of is setting up a burrow where you want them to fire from.
I have mine set up in a sort of trap area, where I have to draw bridges set up 20 squares apart. Once the seige/ambush enters the middle, I raise the two bridges and let my marksdwarves fire away. This also ensures that my dwarves can't path to the things they are trying to kill, making sure they refill their bolts and not go charging down crossbow in hand like an absolute lunatic.

I rarely bring along any poultry, due to my opinion that they are undworfy. Instead I choose the more dworfy donkey, reindeer, sheep and llamas.
Donkeys are great for milking, meat and leather. They also don't need to eat too much. And they are stubborn gits, so they are dworfy in my eyes.
Reindeer are decent in terms of milking and leather, but give great amounts of meat so I slaughter anything that reaches maturity. They also survive the cold, rather dworfy.
Sheep are the do-everything animal. Wool, meat, milk and leather all for the loow cost of grass. They are also more dumb than I care to believe, much like their dwarven masters.
And the wonderful Llama. They also do everything, but at slightly more cost than the Sheep. They also get pissed and spit alot, something I always believed dwarves would do.

Also cats and dogs, if only for the fact that dogs can be trained and cats keep vermin out.
To limit the catsplosion that can happen, get one female and two males. If the female gives birth to a litter with a female in it, slaughter her. Now you have 2 males, and a litter of kittens. Wait until the last female (if more than one female in the litter) matures, then slaughter all but one female. This method should limit the size of your cat army.
Same works for any animal, though I find that I don't get too bad a FPS crash with lots of Llamas everywhere.

Just be careful with the traction bench. Sometimes the docdwarves won't free the patient they have fixed, and he will be left there forever.
To fix it and release the million dwarfbuck dwarf, just deconstruct the bench from underneath him. Worked for my miner dwarf who was stuck there for 3 years. Later died to infection, despite the abundance of soap and water I might add, but at least he was fixed.

I'm not dead, I swear!
The embark points for metal items is fixed.
I am hoping to make the War Altar and the Nature Altar produce the same noxious gas that the Altar does from the Advanced Mod.
Still can't get the crabs to work. The body parts they have are missing from the database, and I have to find where they are from.
I don't know the [SKILL_RATE:] tags for Mining, Engraving and Masonry so the Stone Dwarves are not working the way I want them to.
The game runs slowly on a 5x5 embark though, so I will have to see what I can do about that.
I am doing all of this while flying between airports, so with nothing else to do, things are motoring along.

How long were they in the Individual Training for? Sometimes they just have to finish what they were doing before they will follow orders.

Well lucky you. I just keep getting Stone Commoners, who can't do anything other then beekeeping.