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Its generally prudent to provide a variety of foods. However, what constitutes a different food?

For instance, butchering an animal usually yields about 10 different kinds of item, meat, fat, eyes and brain and lung and heart and organ and so forth. Suppose a dorf has just eaten yak heart, if he then eats yak lung will he consider that to be a different meal? As far as i can see as long as you have a steady supply of butchery animals there doesn't seem much point in farming, apart from alcohol and clothing and the like.

Obsidian is all very well but it would be cool to be able to create natural walls in situ. It could be straightforward to make a reaction at a kiln using flux and clay. Plus it unlocks my dream of huge concrete brutalist structures, or effective above ground damming.

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My sea of magma is frequented by magma crabs. I want to do fun things with them like force all my enemies to walk past them in single file and arrive precooked at my front door. Heres the run.
How do i catch them?
I've opened up the magma sea, left a path open to my fortress and cage trapped it but none of them want to path into my fortress. Can i bait them with kittens? How can i get them?

I have a pet necromancer. He turned up on the first tower siege and he's been an invaluable addition to the fortress.
Recently I chained him up next to a pit with fortifications between him and the pit so he can reanimate all the carp I dump in there. In order to put him on a combat stance I dug a pit on the other side, carved a fortification and dumped a dog in there. Now he will reanimate whenever, not just when there are folk in the Lazarus pit.

Fast forward 3 months. He's stopped showing the blue exclamation mark, he has a brown one now. What does this mean? Has the terror driven him mad? Can non-fortress-citizens be stressed? He can't be tired because necromancer don't tire...

For reference my texture pack is obsidian

So...
my clothes pile is pretty big, thanks to a heaving clothes industry and a shit tonne of invaders (2 years, constantly). Naturally worn clothes get stuck with the pristine ones, and i trade them out at the caravans. Problem is: that necessitates shifting a tonne of bins every trading session to the Depot.
My idea was to sort the clothes by wear, having one stockpile for pristine and one for worn, drastically reducing the amount of hauling that needs to be done. But in settings there are no options for different amounts of wear. Are there any ideas you guys have for seperating different levels of wear?

I usually put a screen of war dogs on the the entrances to my fortresses. They used to maul the Carp out of thieves and make very good meat shields if a Were-beast or an ambush turns up. Except a siege recently turned up and a goblin jumped the wall and landed, one armed, in the dog pen, and they didn't react. It even started laying into one of the dogs and reading the reports it didn't even fight back. What the hell is going on? Why are these dogs now useless?

They also all seem distracted? is this a cause of their newfound pacifism? Is there anyway I can cure them of distraction, or at least mod it out in the raws?

I embarked not 10 squares from a cluster of pits and fortresses, with only forest between them and me. Embark screen says they have access. Their civilisation is doing wonderfully, attacking and taking over plenty of neighbouring sites. It's been 3 years, I have 100+ dwarves and enough wealth to attract the attention of two forgotten beasts and a few (now dogfood) 'bolds. I'm suffering serious FUN deprivation guys. What gives?

See title. The game slows to a crawl as you approach the fortress and once you enter it in proper the game reliably seg-faults. The fortress was quite a busy one, with many animals, magma and items of all stripes. Has anyone else had problems with large item content maps leading to crashes? i've experienced slowdown in adventure mode before, but not crashes. I use the Lazy Newb Pack 40.24 for Linux.