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Also sieges now are pulled from entity populations, whereas previously they were generated from thin air. So in prior versions, a goblin civ that was down to its last 10 members could still throw a 100 goblin siege at you every year, while in the current version, you're unlikely to ever see a goblin from that civ.

Sieges work fine (albeit differently than in previous versions). the DFHack command to trigger a siege hasn't worked for any .40.xx version.

Mango Chili is their best current flavor. I liked the Jalapeņo ones back when they made them, though not as much as the mango chili. Really though, I've liked most of the flavors they've ever done that weren't intended to be gross (and even a couple that were, like black pepper)

Correct, that GCS are not trapavoid. And a diagonal that crosses Z-levels is the most likely culprit for how it got in, if you've looked for diagonal breaches. The ones that cross Z-levels can be hard to spot.

So I ran a fort with all of the [KILL_{something}] ethics set to [PUNISH_CAPITAL]. So far, I haven't gotten any sieges so I can't say whether it will work for [KILL_ENEMY], but my dwarves happily kill animals, chop down trees, and kill elven traders/diplomats, without any crimes showing up in the justice screen or anyone getting a visit from the hammerer.

The only observed effect in fortress mode of setting [ETHIC:KILL_PLANT] or [ETHIC:KILL_ANIMAL] to [PUNISH_CAPITAL] is that if I offer any items containing leather or wood to the dwarven caravan, they get pissy and leave, refusing to trade any more until next visit. The caravans still bring leather, meat, and wooden items for trade. And my hunters still hunt, butchers still slaughter, and woodcutters still cut trees.

When the elven traders came, I recruited an unskilled dwarf into the militia and had him attack an elven trader. Once the fight started I disbanded the squad, and my civilians dogpiled the elf. Eventually one of my miners got a killing shot. The dwarves happily went about the business afterward, and no crime was registered as having been committed.

A Japanese company makes a radish wine (from daikon, a Japanese radish variety) which is reportedly pretty good, though I haven't had the opportunity to try it myself. Information here

If you want to be fairly sure of seeing goblins in the current version, you pretty much have to check legends before choosing where to embark. For example, I once generated a world with 3 goblin civs. Just looking at the embark map, they looked fairly similar in size. But in legends mode, it could be seen that one of them had 15 sites and about 13k goblins, one had 11 sites and about 9k goblins, while the 3rd had 13 sites and 57 goblins. If I embarked near either of the first two, I got regular sieges. But if I embarked near the 3rd, I never saw a goblin at all.