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How is it that you have over 1k Urists of plants but only 157 Urists of prepared meals?   Your layout looks good otherwise, gonna need to start building vertically.  Also, mind that you don't keep too many dogs in that corner.  Despite the reduced stress factors of the current version, your animals will still flip out if confined for too long.

Thanks for the info   Although I avoid over-building Traps for the sake of challenge, I do employ all varieties.  How many walnut wood spiked balls does it take to cripple a goblin wearing an iron helm?  The answer may surprise you!   Guess I'll wait for the next version before I start a new Fort.

I personally use Staal's Armory and Terrible Weapons.  Grimlock is very good in its' own right, I just was never feeling the RP scenario of Dwarves with guns.  The Terrible Weapons addition is especially fun when you draft the entire population and set weapon preference to 'individual choice melee'.

The thing DF misses in damage assessment is "recruitment". Each body part is its own entity, and it doesn't "pass along" the stresses that pass over a certain threshold to the body parts attached adjacent to it.  Blunt force trauma is different from cutting or piercing trauma because of that very reason: recruitment.  When your fist strikes someone else's leg for instance, there is a "bloom" effect around that wound where the impact damage is lessened by the various tissues adjacent to that area taking some of the damage "load" off of the point of impact.  The affected area becomes the entire body via systemic shock with a large enough blow.  The rib cage is specifically meant to shed blunt force trauma into less important areas of the body because of this specific mechanic.

See, that's something I love about Dwarf Fortress.  You learn stuff.

Before I really commit to a new Fortress, I check the bug reports for the current version.  As of 43.03, seems that every weapon trap can insta-crash the game, with the exception being spikes.  I know Toady mentioned this being fixed in the next version, but I'm wondering how common or rare the bug is in 43.05.

Sounds like you might need to take a breather for a bit mate.  The work you've done so far is top-notch. This is seriously the most stable version of MW I have ever enjoyed.  That said, it is the culmination of many years of work.  Meph himself has always worked in bursts, so expecting that you can keep going without a break is unrealistic.

Lastly, on a business note; Do you know offhand how the MW-specific additions like Carpet & Decorations are displayed in other tilesets? (if at all).  I got to wondering after I noticed that Plump Helmet Men (the mod, not the vanilla ones) appeared as amorphous purple dots in the 32x Meph tileset.  Although my monitor is nowhere near 4k, so that might have something to do with it as well.  I'm also wondering if there an option to set the Invader & Visitor cap.  LNP has this, but I don't see it in the MW menu. Edit: I found the visitor & invader number settings in the 'd_init' file.

also you might wnt to make sure there isn't an access error occuring... I've come across this several times, that for some reason certain shops will produce goods and the goods wont be available to the units.  check the shop and ensure its not full of items even though your counts say 0, if it is then deconstruct the shop and use D-B-C over the goods that fall out, and the dwarves will suddenly stockpile it and begin to use it...  I' don't know what causes this bug, but it seems to have something to do with setting a zone(such as a meeting hall) that includes the shop area or building a shop inside of such, an previously established zone.

You're a wizard Harry.  I had piled the contents of my wagon (including critters) in front of the entrance, for fear of the local wolverine population.  I deconstructed the kitchen, and ~60 biscuits exploded outwards in a great rain of foody goodness.  Unfortunately Thankfully, no Dwarf was injured by the flying biscuits.