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You can't trust dwarven health insurance. My uncle urist was insured, paying his premiums like clockwork, but that didn't help him at all. When a zombie bear took both his legs and he needed surgery, the insurance company ignored his letters. He sent a friend to the insurance company's headquarters to argue his case, but the place turned out to be a smoking ruin because some clown had sunk a shaft too deep and opened up the depths of hell.

Minerals sure are common. My first and current fort, on a hastily chosen mountainside, is merely a hall and a 1-tile shaft going down into the depths. I can see hematite poking out of the mountain everywhere, and my solitary shaft revealed rich deposits of gold, copper, flux and even more iron.
This may be a good idea, because it means we can now spend less time genning the perfect plot of land and more time building awesome forts.

Restricting SparkGear to players deemed worthy by some council of "DF experts" would miss the point of SG. All of the previous SGs, including this one, were at their finest when the fort was at its worst.
An exclusive succession game for experienced players with SG-like turns could be nice, but it wouldn't be Sparkgear

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are free, unless I missed someone's request.
Let's keep this game rolling, we're this close to finishing without people seriously considering euthanasia.

That is 4chan, so you must have missed the part where his mother gets scared and forces him to move with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.

Please, no drama. I didn't know about dumping through the stocks menu, so all I saw was a bunch of outside items that could only have been marked for dumping intentionally. The fortress is kept open, so the dumping order sends dwarves out of the fortress to dump the items, and the dwarves that exit the fortress trip an ambush and die almost immediately. This is a frustrating situation, and you'll see how this situation and my lack of experience with the stocks screen lead me to reach a bad conclusion.
The combination of an open fortress and an outside dumping order leads to a lot of damage in the form of ambushes, so it's obvious that the situation couldn't have existed for a long time in your turn, as you'd have noticed and fixed it. This leaves one option- outside dumping orders and an open fortress were combined near the end of your turn. Now, I didn't know about a plan to clean out the traps, so I saw no reason for you to close down the fort. This left me wth one conclusion- the dumping order had been placed just before you saved the game, and this act seemed inconsiderate and hamhanded at best, and malicious at worst. This could only mean sabotage, either in the literal sense or in the sense that you attached to design incompetence in your earlier posts.

Now that I know about your trap cleaning plan, and see your past request to close down the fortress, it's obvious that you had closed down the fortress to clean up the traps, and then opened it up before giving the me save. All of that was done in accordance with the rules and the exceptions I allowed, so you didn't do anything bad. The only thing that irks me about the situation is that I hadn't known about the dumping orders before I started playing, so I could not cancel them before shit started hitting the fan. The damage was caused by the lack of information, and not by malicious intent.
I'm sorry for blaming you for sabotage and suggesting that your save be skipped. Your turn contributed a lot to the fortress, and the dumping order issue can be fixed with a few simple commands, so there really isn't any reason to do that.

Now, to avoid this kind of stuff in the future, players should make sure to note down any standing orders or incomplete construction projects. A few simple sentences could reduce the amount of savescumms and time needed to reach a point where the fortress in under control.

This is insane. Dwarves walk all over the landscape to get to and from the magma pipe area, instead of taking the secure paths. I've been getting ambushes at a rate of about one per minute.
I've got to fix that.

Edit: They do take the shortcut, but the also have a dazzling array of other errands that involve going out of the perimeter and into goblin territory. What the hell are they doing?
Alright, I found the problem. You designated some stuff for dumping outside the fortress limits. Now I have to look for the stuff and undump it.

Where is the new water factory?