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I just downloaded 31.21, applied the Dwarven Higher Learning mod and genned a new medium high-volcanic world.  Worldgen took a bit longer than I remember it taking it 31.18, but no biggie.  I find a decent looking volcano to embark on but then notice that something is very wrong with my neighbors and my "dwarves" are looking very, um, scaly.   Did I do something horribly wrong when I applied the mod or did I uncover a !!feature!! of the new release?  Here are my world gen parameters: and here's the save if you are interested.

spikes, check.
hanging rings - I think there are two in the back on the right.  check.
random sock/shoe wearing, check.
And I think we also got a glimpse of a fey mood on the left.

http://i.imgur.com/wNQXT.jpg

Background:  I normally make one of my starting 7 dwarves a lumberjack (Carpenter/Axedwarf, then add woodcutting duty).  He' handles bed, bin, and bucket creation and serves as the "on call" dwarf in case I need something disposed of before I get a proper military in place.  My current fortress was generated in 31.05 and recently upgraded to 31.11. 

One of my dogs flushed out a kobold outside of the wall, and Urist Lumberjack happened to be cutting trees nearby - much closer to the kobold than my military.  So I made him a militia captain, set his squad to clothes and personal choice melee, and ordered it to kill the kobold.  He immediately drops his axe and charges after the kobold.  As it turns out he is slower than the little thief, so the kobold makes a clean getaway to the map edge.  I try to return the lumberjack to his chopping duties but he just sits there with "no job".  I have tried the following:

standing his squad down
deleting the squad
removing him as militia captain
adding him to my regular military squad and removing him
creating more axes (they just sit in the weapons storage bin unused)
turning off woodcutter, advancing time, turning it back on
saving/reloading
designating more trees for chopping

He will happily perform carpentry or hauling duties, but won't cut down trees.  Is this a bug or is there something I'm missing?

Since the perfect site is hard to find, and admittedly somewhat hard to unambiguously define, I tend to set the finder up with a partial list of requirements - specifying the more important ones to be part of the search.  But even when all the search criteria goes green it still keeps grinding through the rest of the zones.  So two requests really:

1) Can I interrupt the finder once all criteria have been met to see what location was found instead of having to wait for the scan to finish?

2) Is there any way to make the finder cough up any additional matching locations found during the scan after I see the first? 

Now that my engraver has finally gotten legendary, I've set him to engrave the bedrooms in the Legendary dormitory wing.  The first one is a exceptionally designed image of a plump helmet - fair enough, it is considered the town's symbol after all.  But the second engraving - was it of the army gloriously slaughtering the first goblin siege?  The bravery of Feb Shorastgikut the hunter who with only his hunting dog at his side slew six ambushing goblins before finally succumbing to an arrow in the chest?  (The dog survived minus one eye).  The cruel deaths of every female kitten that made the perilous journey from the mountainhomes only to wind up impaled upon +menacing bronze spikes+ by their owners?  No, he chose to commemorate this...edit: halved image size

This looks similar to bug #140 - masterpiece bins.  I had a carpenter go fey, and make an artifact highwood bin.  This wound up assigned to a leather stockpile.  The artifact bin will not show up on the trade good mover screen.  The only active mandate was a prohibition against exporting lead.

I started up a game in 40d and have twice gotten the dwarven caravan but haven't seen my liason yet.  The game's worldgen parms tweaked to encourage high resource density so I could start 5x5 with all necessary resources and more live megabeasts (my start year was 50) but is otherwise vanilla. 

Is this a bug, expected but unusual behavior (re: I'll get a liason eventually), or did I screw something up by changing my parms?

bug: bins of leather from the trade depot are moved to a newly created stockpile that doesn't allow those types of leather.

setup:  I'd bought several bins of high end leather from the caravan last season.  However, since my leather stockpile was full they sat there.  Then my countess started demanding groundhog leather items.  So I decided to create a secondary groundhog-only leatherwork shop.  After digging out the area I mark the stone for dumping and create a leather stockpile restricted to groundhog leather only.  A few (game) days later when I come back to build the leatherworking shop I notice there are full bins of spider chitin, giant olm leather, and alligator leather - taken from the excess bins waiting at the trade depot.