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Night trolls are the original witches. I don't see the need for a Disney witch in the game.

but night trolls are opposed to all life (or at least to all adventurers) so you can't get their procedurally generated stuff in cauldrons without killing them first (which would also mean you can only get once batch of it)

I have to say the oak leaves falling in the fall made me think the surface had caught fire. But they're beautiful.

i thought it was raining some kind of blood

Your dwarves are either storing something in the bedroom or picking something up. Try checking their equipment before and after.

on that note, are they always in active/training mode before you issue this order?  if not then you need to set their equipment to replace clothes on the military screen or they will have to run and get their equipment every time you activate the squad by giving it an order?
(but yes they can be pretty dumb about kill orders sometimes, most reliable method in my experience is to use stations to get wherever you need to go, in the case of melee dwarves they'll just chase down whatever gets close enough, for marksdwarves use kill orders when they're in range and the AI seems to work ok)

If they drop anything then it's likely because they couldn't equip it.

couldn't or WOULDN'T?
I took the cap off one of my buddies once and gave him a helmet to wear but he always thanked me and dropped it :\ (yes it was his size)

I've embarked on a few dead civs in .04 and i consistently get a monarch appointed after the first migrant wave (but never other positions, except mayor of course, although it's worth it to note that retiring will let the ai appoint all that stuff so you can have monarch, count, baron and mayor with 7 dwarves if you want!)

yeah it's not like you ever REALLY need it if you have a volcano, it's just really easy if you want another hole for some reason away from the volcano

Also some stat enhancing foods and drinks like coffee, coca and what not but I doubt Toady would ever implement performance enhancement drugs.

why do you doubt that?  it sounds pretty fun, I'm sure toady can be convinced if you add an eternal suggestion thing for it

I think the problems this suggestion solved are better overcome by changes to how fear works at present.  of course it makes sense in some situations for creatures to be "overcome by horror" and flee (like when confronted by a vicious rabbit or aardvark) but in other situations maybe a more appropriate description of the effect on the creature is apprehension or dread.  imagine a dwarf is going to perform surgery on another dwarf, he sees the dwarf has particularly horrific injuries (maybe the initial reaction is disgust/revulsion), he (probably) wouldn't run screaming, but rather become nervous or otherwise disturbed, maybe he is less sure of his surgical abilities or other skills in such a state, and of course gains a bad thought.

All that said, it does make a lot of sense for medical expertise to inure dwarves to horrific injuries or the presence of corpses, but if they simply gain discipline it also prevents them from fleeing from a fight in cases where they're simply outnumbered and horrific injuries aren't involved, which doesn't make much sense.