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So glass pumps with iron tubes don't melt?  What about wood with iron tube?  Or pipes, whichever it is (I can never remember).

I take perverse pleasure in building things that should melt or burn, but don't.  For example, I use all-wood pumps to move magma, build lavaducts out of tin, and so on.  The more I can push it, the better.

For the sake of science and chill composure, I ran a simple experiment: I dumped green glass tubes, blocks, and corkscrews into magma.  It takes six frames for the item to fall after the dwarf lets go of it.  It takes three frames in the magma before the item evaporates.

Green glass is not magma-safe.

If the ponds freeze over, I've seen that message, and fish (well, turtles) come back the next spring.  But you can also wipe out the vermin; after catching roughly 10k fish (as counted by the number of bone bolts I ended up with), I've ended up being out of fish *forevermore*.

Fitting that I'd overfish the seas, given that I grew up in Atlantic Canada.

I like the idea of making apple pie by taking an apple tree to the smelter and setting it on fire.

I have seen indications that you can fairly easily mod in the ability to melt metal blocks, burn lignite blocks, and convert a block (or require it to be two blocks) to a stone.

A lever/Pressure Plate + [Bridge Formula] Rope/Chain + mechanisms = Lever/Pressure Plate adjustable lengths = godly patrol animals.

I wish I understood what you're saying, because I want godly patrol animals too.

I wish my guard dragon could be a bit freeer on its post.  My idea: build a chain with any number of ropes/chains.  An animal hooked up to a chain built from N ropes can roam up to N tiles away.

It's been discussed, before:
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=3455.0

It was rejected because it would be hard to take into account the length of the rope (notice how sometimes your animal walks down the stairs and to somewhere that shouldn't logically be accessible? same thing, but it gets more obvious with longer ropes) -- you'd get dumb dogs wrapping themselves around the tree and so on, it would be a coding hassle, etc.

But I'm not convinced I can be made to care about the rope path being reasonable: if the animal can get to a spot while never being more than N steps from its post, ignoring obstacles, I'm OK with that.

It seems to me there are two, separable pieces of code: one, requiring more materials to build longer ropes.  Two, figuring out how to path the rope and make it drag properly and all that jazz -- or not.  However part 2 gets implemented doesn't affect how part 1 is implemented (and part 1 is very similar to how traps are, so it "shouldn't be hard").  The part 2 implementation ignoring proper rope handling "should be" a "trivial" modification of the current code.  And proper rope handling can be put off to the distant future.

The quotes mean that I am, of course, not looking at the code right now.