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I believe they would probably be best in the savage group.  While you are creating a valid player civ, I don't think the drow or succubi would see them as allies, and possibly not even as civilized.  Succubi are demonic artisans, and I believe they would view the waspen as either a barbaric and unworthy civilization or even  just as tool wielding animals or possible pets, but not as allies.  Same with the drow.   

Trees in .04 now drop branches that penetrate 3 z levels into the earth, killing random dwarves and stunning others from the "dust cloud o' doom".

Thinking new forts should be established in the rock layers to avoid... unpleasantness.

Also, trees grow stupid fast, and overpopulate their biomes.  EVERY area quickly becomes "Thick"-ly forested, regardless of what biome it starts as.

Does all this mean the elves have now successfully weaponised trees for use against dwarf forts? 

Thanks for the replies.  I origionally wanted my main entrance to require walking through the waterfall.  But now, I'm going to go with the suggestions of the waterfall hitting a floor.  So I'll create an overhang with floodgates at the end when the river freezes, with the gates being used to prevent the water form falling onto the bridge.  Then use floors at entrance level to create a step layer for the waterfall, with a gap inbetween from the overhang part of the now modified waterfall.  This should allow a floor tile bridge to cross a chasm and be the main means of underground entrance, mist thoughts, and allowing everyone to path properly and remain relatively safe and dry.  As an added bonus, I should be able to link up the floodgates and allow the water to be dumped onto the bridge to sweep some invaders off when I want.

Some real life castles have multiple rings of walls, so employing several layers could be potentially seen as a legitimate castle defense as well.  Moats work well, even dry ones, although I like filling mine with either water or magma.  Rember fliers can path right over your walls, so you probably want to build a sealable keep for your below-ground entrance.

Dwarves can survive off of just alcohol? I guess my puny human liver is nothing compared to those of the great dwarven race.

Hello, I'm only responding because you sound quite new to this rather complex, but !!FUN!!, game.  So I'm uncertain if you're already aware that Dwarves also need food, just less of it per season than alcohol.  I believe the wiki says dwarves need two units of food a season, and four of alcohol.  Food can be either meat or certain plants.  So growing certain crops can both feed your dwarves and allow them to brew their opwn booze.  The wiki can tell you a lot more.

I'm uncertain if this is a bug, and if so, if it's LFR related or just something more related to the current DF version itself.  I had a Shedim seige show up at almost  the same time as a Nephilim caravan.  The Shedim chowed down on a bunch of camels, then just turned around and left.  I've checked the reports, and the Nephilim guards didn't engage them, and as far as I know nothing else inflicted any casualties on them either.
 

I can't build a Machine Shop, because it keeps requiring rock chains, instead of metal ones.

Yay, glad to see a new version of LFR!

When future bug fixes come out, will we probably be able to keep using a 20.a save, or will we probably need to gen a whole new world for 20.b?