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For future generations, one can pick better livestock to live. For some biomes, one can increase the food output with necromancy. However, a third avenue I've seen largely gone unexplored is boosting body size of meat while it is alive.

Given that Strength seems to increase body size by about 0,1% of "standard" size per point, it follows that getting 1000 of it with average strength will double yields.

The remaining problem is actually get the animals to exert themselves.

Option A: Siccing large predators onto something that is not likely to die but won't hit back. I've seen mention of using unconsicious wild water buffalo.

Option B: For benign small creatures, one can danger-room them with minecarts. However, in my experience this increases strength really slowly - like, weeks per increase. 1000 weeks to max it out seems like it would kill most animals of old age.

Option C: For very large benign creatures such as water buffalos, danger-rooming them with spears is less likely to horribly kill them in first few strikes. However, no idea if this will raise their strength at any faster pace, if at all.

Things I've found do not work: Swimming chickens. No strength increase in 3 weeks of 6/6 water.

Thus, in the spirit of dwarven child care, I ask thee to submit more, faster, better, stronger, easier ideas and designs for hulking out pets (for eating, though defensive ones do get a benefit as well I guess).

That url... It's like 3 redirects and and a site who loves php a little too much.

Aw. Bye bye, goblin liason. You were cool while you lasted. Though I recall trade depot used to be in center.

Still, looking at those screenshots, it looks like the ocean catcher has unnecessary channeling ruination in it? I can't tell what the first one is supposed to indicate, though.

Isn't the whole point of dorfing RPing?

*Fleeting Frames doesn't really understand the practice.*

So this is the end result of that tweaking? Well, my paintings certainly aren't so picturesque!

You're missing 4 wheats, Sorghum, Fonio, Teff and Artichokes from full theoretical compendum of 78 spirits. Checked how many you have with region-pops? Though, on the flip side you got wolf packs, for instance...Probably something else as well, wiki biome articles are rather incomplete on what is present.

One idea that came to me for making every one of the present boozes was to use workflow plugion/43.03 job manager system so that every distillation causes the brewing of next plant in cycle.

Setting up those dozens of orders would probably best done with spreadsheet, though actually implementing that dynamically would be something of a challenge :p (FYI workflow saves into historical figures).

I'd suspect it to be something of a bug, tbh, on account of how I do manage to get Artichokes in 33×33s (dry Temperate Grassland). And yes, that 15 tiles does get divided into 2 smaller ranges with an equator.

Incidentally, this should mean some biome combinations are only possible through hacking for now, such as all 3 broadleafs forests in 1 embark.

Quote from: Fleeting Frames on June 29, 2016, 12:06:28 am

with 600 elves on library embark,

What a heap of leather!
How do you embarked on the library?

DFHack plugin: embark-tools ; enable embark anywhere. There were about 10000? books according to my bookkeeper, and despite being marked as hostile, no conflicts with either civilians or stationed military. They didn't visit my new library either though, sadly.

Incidentally, said dwarven civ has no dwarves.

Which brings me to another discovery:
Queen position isn't necessarily for life. This one was Queen for a day, then became expedition leader again.

Still, motivation to give everyone royal furnishing :p

E: Good motivation. It yoyod daily till someone else became expedition leader.

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Wow, I had just two tree-loving beards climb several zs up and then down a tree. Oddly, this didn't give them any climbing experience, but I didn't know they could do that.

They then proceed to go back in the next step of the cycle of "climb in submerged meeting area, realize it is submerged, get out, climb trees, get down, proceed to climb in said meeting area again". Same steps every time.

Idling dwarfs are weird. Kinda reminds me of how animals path though, same counter-clockwise cycle, albeit returning to origin. And it is only those dwarfs who got submerged in meeting area - only they return into water and then climb again.

E: interestingly, dwarves can hold onto things in their sleep if forced by (say minecarts).

Once, I got trapped dwarfs by them not crossing over ramps - shouldn't ramps act as floors? to stairwell to fort.

Did you test that you could get a dwarf from fort centre to their location, perhaps by station order?