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Does anyone know how the calculations work for these things? I don't really need the scientific details, but I would like a to have rough idea of how many soldiers, with how much skill and equipment do I need to send to raze/conquer a site, depending on it's population.

Whenever I retire an adventurer in my fortress, and unretire the fortress, the adventurer is considered a citizen but can't have any labors assigned, be put in the military or appointed to noble positions. The adventurer is from the same civ that the fortress group. However, when I create a new adventurer from my own fortress, he can do everything and behaves like a regular citizen.

Is there a way to make the adventurer not originated in the fortress behave like the one who is?

I've been looking for a way to make milk drinkable, and the best I could find was this

[REACTION:COW_PROS_MILK]
      [NAME:process cows milk]
      [BUILDING:FARMER:CUSTOM_N]
      [REAGENT:A:1:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:CREATURE_MAT:COW:MILK][UNROTTEN]
      [REAGENT:B:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][CONTAINS:A][PRESERVE_REAGENT][DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
      [REAGENT:C:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][EMPTY][FOOD_STORAGE_CONTAINER][PRESERVE_REAGENT][DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
      [PRODUCT:100:5:DRINK:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:DRINK_MAT][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150][PRODUCT_TO_CONTAINER:C]
      [SKILL:MILK]

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It seems good aside from one thing - it must be made from cow milk. Is it possible to just make the reaction use any milk?

EDIT:
Thanks again to everyone for their help. With some tweaking I managed to finalize the reaction. Since I think it's a question that keeps getting asked I'll just leave it here

this reaction takes 1 bucket full of milk and an empty barrel
returns 1 empty bucket and a barrel with 5 "drinks" (they work fine)

add this to the bottom of reaction_other.txt

[REACTION:PROCESS_MILK]
      [NAME:process milk]
      [BUILDING:FARMER:CUSTOM_N]
      [REAGENT:A:30:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:NONE:NONE]
         [REACTION_CLASS:MILK]
         [UNROTTEN]
      [REAGENT:B:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][CONTAINS:A][PRESERVE_REAGENT][DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
      [REAGENT:C:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][EMPTY][FOOD_STORAGE_CONTAINER][PRESERVE_REAGENT][DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
      [PRODUCT:100:1:DRINK:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:DRINK_MAT][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150][PRODUCT_TO_CONTAINER:C]
      [SKILL:MILK]

Add this to whatever entities you wish in entity_default.txt

   [PERMITTED_REACTION:PROCESS_MILK]

I know that calculating the sieges in worldgen would be hard to implement but all I'm asking for is that they should always fail instead of succeeding. It's not a good solution, but it's better than what we have now. A lot of people are complaining about this, and this suggestion would fix the problem until a better solution is implemented.