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Unfortunately I think ice just acts like any other rock when that happens and will just create a giant ice pillar one cube at a time. An ice pillar full of the corpses of your enemies on display, however, which may be an appealing alternative.

Okay, that one needs a serious answer.
Honestly, I'm not completely sure, but it seems to be a pathing issue because I've found everything from ducks to cows up in trees whenever they're on the surface. It doesn't seem to be exclusively combat-triggered, as essentially anything that's on your side can end up in a tree, but there's a chance it's related; I've found that my surface-training soldiers have been ending up in trees a lot more ever since they've started to spar.

Though the distance at which they were found tells me this pathing issue might be a lot more screwy than just jumping into trees. I've found animals pastured near the center of my map up in trees right in the corner, too, so it might be something else entirely. Either way, the cause isn't certain so far, and your options are chopping the trees down, making a connective network between trees so they can get back down, or just leave them to starve for their idiocy.

I understand Gorlaks are smart enough to have bards and others, so I imagine the dwarves know that as well and are a little overzealous in burying things, due to the ghost problem.

Same way we value our Legendary Weaponsmith, Armorsmith, some of our champion warriors, etc. We just let them think the D-classes are their friends, we know better.

Hmm, last time I had crabs they only killed one guy. The rest got punched to death by my woodcrafters and a miller who laughed at them afterwards. Can they spit across up/down stairs, vertically?

Even if this is just a bug Giant Shrikes should probably be added just for this reason. And regular shrikes but we all know what we want: Savage biomes with highwoods full of mangled corpses.

That's a bit odd, the biggest bug I had with the medical system nowadays could be chalked up to idiocy (plopping the patient in the middle of the hospital floor when there was a bed), but nothing like that. Even the priority thing wasn't too troublesome, with enough dwarves the job gets taken up eventually.

Make sure your chief medical dwarf's active and not busy doing something stupid.