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Dont use stone stockpiles. Use a quantum garbage dump for your stone needs, and only designate metal ore stockpiles. When your stonecrafter/mason needs more materials, simply dig out an area of the needed type of stone and use d B d to designate them all to be dumped. Preferably in a garbage dump next to your crafters.

Some people might see this as cheating, but I feel that it's the only way of dealing with the HUUUGE amounts of stone you will have laying around, even with unskilled miners.

ooh, I didn't know they'd collect from dump sites.  I like this idea.  Much easier to manage.  Thanks.

I have turned off dwarves collect minerals because the dorfs spend far too long hauling unwanted stone around instead of doing important jobs.  I have a single stone stockpile that collects cheap stone for use in crafting and masonry.  When it gets low, I turn mineral collecting back on.

The problem is, mineral collecting also blocks metal ore collecting.  Is there an easy way to tell dorfs to only collect metal ores?

Uneven squad numbers causes lunacy...
I had 3 guys in a squad set to training, but one guy would lead a demo, one would watch, and the other would sit in a "waiting for demo" state.  This waiting guy stayed waiting until eventually he went mad.
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Also, add me to the people for whom the military screen crashes a lot.  Seemingly at random.  Sometimes I can open and muck around with settings for a while, then it crashes.  Sometimes it crashes the instant I the screen comes up.
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Hunting seems worthless now - with the reduced x/y space, animals simply run out of the area and are never seen again.
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I keep getting an "unnamed material" listing in the glass smelter.  If I select it, I get the usual list of glass products, all listed as "make unnamed material item X".  about 2/3 of the time I get the normal glass listings, the rest of the time I get the unnamed materials instead of glass names.
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add me to the pile of people suffering from pathing problems.  Seems most common when digging out or building ramps.
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and also I suffer from the lack of fish...anywhere.  I've started about 5 forts so far, and every time there's no fish in the rivers.  The only time I found some fish was in a murky pool.
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burrows act funny - I made a burrow thinking I could set it up as an alert state to direct my military dwarves there when under attack, but every dwarf and animal in the fortress decided this burrow was home.  They all went there and promptly went to sleep because all of their jobs were outside the burrow area.
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jobs manager / fort manager doesn't want to do anything.  I was sick of my jobs not getting completed, so I took off every labour task from my manager, thinking he would go to the office to work, but instead he just sits in the meeting hall with "no job" status.  Meanwhile my long list of jobs can't even reach validated status.
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kill orders don't cancel after completion.  I ordered a dwarf to kill a raccoon, which he did, then he sat over the corpse doing nothing.  I had to manually cancel his kill order.
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refuse pile orders are being ignored. I turned on refuse in a stockpile, but denied various corpse types (like flies, roaches, etc) and still the dwarves filled the pile with these corpses that the cat dragged in.
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trade at depot priority is too low.  Every time I get merchants, I have to build a burrow over the depot to force my broker to trade instead of hauling.  I could turn off his labour tasks, but then I'd have to muck around turning them on again afterwards.

that's all I can remember for now

Hey.  First of all - great utility app.  It's damn useful at times.  Secondly - a question:

How can I get the ForEachTile plugin to work with this new version of tweak?  The xml memory files are split up into general, creature and map files now.

I tried adding the memory locations as listed in the dwarf wiki (foreachtile page) for 40c, and added the addresses to whichever file seemed most appropriate (eg added the view state address to general, and added things like temperature/occupancy to the map file).

The problem is, any attempt to use FET results in the error that it thinks the look menu is not active in dwarf fortress.  I assume this is the memory address of "view_state" which according to the wiki is:

<address name="view_state" value="0x009FB368" />

which I have tried adding to core.general and core.map, without any luck.  In desperation I also made a file called v0.28.181.40c.core.xml with all the updated addresses in, thinking that maybe FET reads the file directly.

Obviously, I haven't yet figured this one out, so any help you could give me in getting it up and running would be much appreciated.

I don't think it was red because of a mandate.  There were no export mandates in effect.  Also, all the items in the bin were brown, only the bin itself was red.

Ah well.  I'll just have to wait till my next fortress to rob the elves 

There's definitely something screwy going on.  I now have 4 dedicated animal care and health care only workers, more food than I have room to store, and piles of food and booze in the jail.  Yet every dwarf that has gone to jail in the last year has starved to death.  The death count is up to 5 now.  I'm desperately trying to fill every mandate now because going to jail has become a slow and unpleasant death sentence.