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so, out of left field question, if I were to give dwarves the [FIREIMMUNE_SUPER] token (which I already kind of did), and were to add that "string" (kind of new to modding DF, sorry, don't know the term) that makes all of a dragon's tissues nigh invulnerable to high temperatures (which I kind of did too), and I were to also give male dwarves the [SHEARABLE_TISSUE_LAYER] (which I haven't done yet), could I make fireproof clothing out off dwarven beard wool/hair? Is it possible to shear dwarves, or any other sentient, if given the tokens?

I ask because I gave dwarves fire breath, and it went as well as you'd expect. The embark tools turned bursts of metal steam were an amusing surprise. If this works, I guess next thing I'd ask would be, can you make a wood that's fireproof, and would beds made out of it keep that property?

Ok, so I've been playing around with adv. mode more than usual lately. As a result, I get careless, and my adventurers suffer rather serious wounds more often. To which my response is using the task manager to close DF and start from a previous point on the save. "savescumming".

Thing is, when I save the game later down the line, a small dialog window shows up and say an error was detected, DF has to be closed, yadda yadda. Usual crash, I guess.

I use uncompresed saves because I read those get corrupted less often. Thing is, I'd like to know if the crashes happen because savesumming corrupts my save, or if it might be something else (I think trading coins or visiting the town's keep does it...)

So, I had trained a legendary swordgoblin hero adventurer. Using a macro to slap a bear's tail (I like to think it was his ass) with the flat of a sword is super fun btw.

Anyway, I traveled to a nearby human town to learn of the location of bandit camps and stuff, when out of nowhere I got ambushed by a vampire lizard woman. Or some other kind of reptile. The thing was fast, dodging most of my legendary sword skills. Sometimes I was able to land an attack of opportunity that did some damage, but not much. Then she got a lucky hit, bit my right hand, broke a bone and pulled a tendom  and made me drop my shield. So, things could go south pretty fast now.

If only I could be as fast as she. And then I remembered, I could! All I had to do is drink her blood!
So that's what I did. I ate the blood coating my sword... And nothing. Filled a waterskin with some of her blood that was on the floor and drank it... Nothing.

I eventually stabbed her through the face, but I couldn't use her blood to turn.

So... Why couldn't I become a vampire that way?

Did my adventurer reach an observer level high enough as to be able to spot the game's code?
The only mod I have on my game is the one that lets me use goblins from goblin civs as adventurers.

Ok, so, I reclaimed a world generated fort. Waited till the dwarves made some candy artifact weapons and pieces of armour so I could, you know, use them on adventurer mode. Thing is, I cant fast travel without losing the artifacts. And when I go back to the fort, at least one of the artifacts was back on the workshop I took it from. (a perfect gem on a jewelers workshop near the surface, easier to check than the weapons on the maze that world-gen dwarf architects call forges-level.)

I forbid the artifacts the moment they were made on fort mode, because I didn't want them ending up wherever when I went there as an adventurer.

So, my questions are: are all artifacts linked to the place they were made, or is it because they were made on a world gen fort, or because they were forbidden at the moment I retired the fort? (the adventurer I made is from that fort, so maybe she can't violate the "forbidden" rule?)

If it is because they were forbidden, is there any way to store them on a stockpile on fort mode without them being moved somewhere else by the time I get there with an adventurer?

Ok, so, I have a 2z levels deep hole on the first cavern that refills itself with water from the map edge. Dunno if I should call it a lake. Anyway, I've read that you can pierce the floor under a body of water without drowning your miners by using drawbridges and ramps, but I don't understand how. That's question one. A step by step would be awesome.

Question two: I've read that if you use water's natural preasure, you can get it to flow upwards. And that if you make the water flow upwards through floor bars, building destroyers (there's a nightjar or something FB with firebreath lurking the cavern) can't break the bars and into the fort. Question two would be, does that work?

After the water goes through the filters, it'll feed a 10 or so z levels tall pump stack that will fill a reservoir for some wells on the heart of my fortress. I have experience with that last part from an older fort where I didn't implement a filter for monsters and a flying FB with toxic blood broke in.

Thanks in advance.

So, I've been reading a lot about the military, squads and stuff (mostly the wiki).

But I couldn't find much on how to set it up to meet my needs. Or rather, lack thereof. I dont want an army of legendary soldiers ready for deployment 24/7, I just want my craftdwarves to satiate their inherent lust for violence against each other (non lethaly if possible) on their own and then to go back to their work stations ASAP.

How could I accomplish that? One month training session once a season, three times a year or a whole season each year?

So, I use 2x4 plots, each dedicated to one kind of subterranean crop (I dont plant dye, and the plots for quarry bushes and pig tails are bigger to produce more food and cloth)

I'm aiming for a 250-300 dwarfs fort, relying on meat and fish bought from caravans and quarry bush leafs for food, but trying make all the booze I need myself... Problem is, the stills produce more booze than what's needed. What size of plot should I use, how large should my booze stockpiles be, or should I just brew a shit ton of alcohol and then just farm and brew when needed?