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Nah, their butchering return data isn't just added to the wiki yet; there are lot of articles on giant creatures like that. They're about same size as giant keas, so I'd expect similar returns.

And NCommander, I meant more the mechanics of how they work (will they dig? Or deconstruct? Or both? What if they are unable to path due hanging in mid-air? Can they deconstruct walls from above, unlike dwarves? What about from below? ), though not applying to everything is surprising.

One advantage of tiered well is that if a dwarf falls in they can get out by ramps without always falling to the bottom and getting injured like with stairs.

Gold emerald-encrusted goblets are pretty fantasycal, indeed, and Archcrystals's gems encrusted with pages of gems is just stupendous, however it is somewhat difficult to get them to look at non-furniture.

Alas, for dwarves personally at least they care about mechanisms with spikes (spokes?) of diamonds, and about statues of anything.

For art of overseering, one thing I've been contemplating recently is using color for pictures without modifying the layouts. Sure, the dining/sleeping hall may have the chairs and tables in neat orderly rows that from the ground appear randomly colored....but from above, you can have the symbol of dwarven civilization in gold and fuschia, or The Fellowship of Right in teal and cyan (troll blood for coloring the beds?). Minecart tracks can also add detail beyond the standard +s of smoothed floor.

I think the simplest solution would be to wall the jeweler in with the goblets.

You could also spam cheap goblets and drop them all over the fortress, so that dwarves would be less likely to grab the gold ones. Once those are encrusted, sell cheap ones to caravans.

Do dwarves actually enjoy drinking from an encrusted/lovely material/valuable goblet, though?

The well water should be 2z deep indeed, but that just means 1 additional tile of channeling - the water can still otherwise come in from 1z below.

The spider one - I was thinking of using bait (you do have furniture and turkeys. So many turkeys, it's thanksgiving!) and then locking it in for silk production. I don't think military can capture FBs alive in the first place?

Of course, with diginvaders, it might very well be able to dig/deconstruct/teleport it's way out of it - not sure how that thing works tbh.

Eh, there are fair bit of things that work on linux that don't work in windows; for instance the .gnumeric painter worksheet I use is built with dynamic ranges, which would be really, really, really tedious (separate function for each range) to set up in standard openoffice (I looked). It just happens so that legends viewer is one of those things that requires more precise virtualization / metaphorically in this discussion doesn't have a land bridge from one shore to another built yet by me, and I don't feel like looking at what text I want to keep and what not when closing down. (I think my favourites are more versatile hotkey customization (5-dimensional tabbing, for instance) and lower ram = more things to be left open, though, since I do most things in browsers or other multiplatform things.)

However, back to DF itself, have you looked with your setup to see that with the 1-wide gap the civs do not conquer each other skipping over it, no human pits or goblin retreats?

And yeah, without trees it's impossible to get all boozes. With just a desert, I think you're limited to planting just the ones that are not freezing, or perhaps any temperate|tropical as well?

Tried to run legends viewer on linux myself, but failed to get it to run with wine or mono, so that's out unless I feel like restarting the computer (and Microsoft's yandere insistence on Win10 with data collection practices is a fairly creepy).

And yeah, I run elves on 100 savagery myself, they only go for connecting forest tiles, however they can conquer others - even expand human town "ranks" higher after becoming the new administrators, which can make them be in range as neighbours (untested if enough for visitors and war both) despite forest retreats being on other side of the world. 1-tile civs could act as time-delayed elven gateways, perhaps.

Goblins definitely spawn on evil tiles even if they're at peace with calm, but an issue is that evil is slightly random - so the size of those two biomes for beak dogs/ogres would be better if they were not used by humans or elves. On that note, all connected plains and all connected forests+taiga seem to be considered 1 region in legends mode, so elves and goblins pretty much have to have different expansion areas to guarantee evil areas for goblin-meant home in a single gen.

Still, that is a great idea! *notes*

Dead dwarven civ....if they have isolated mountain with no room to expand, it happens naturally as they dig deep and FB eats them in my experience, provided 8 caves from 8 surrounding mountains don't get them first. However, getting them killed by goblins for WAR might be preferable.

On humans: Unlike the avaricious goblins, I've had them not expand into wilderness (35 savagery resulting in a mix of calm and wild), myself. Ever since then, I use 30.

As for the animal people, can't think of anything better than what you're already doing.

Myself, I want all boozes, so tropical dry broadleaf/tropical grassland/tropical grassland/temperate grassland. Unfortunately, don't know how to create tropical dry broadleafs.

Can be demanded in moods, but only once per dwarf, and you have years even to the first one. But that z-level spread is just terrible ^^;  However, melting an ore produces 4 bars per ore by default (see the simple 8 billion from 2 tetrahedrite recipe), so it should average out back to 31 bismuthine bars, with total of 124 bismuth bronze if you dig through 34 z-levels.

The reason I wondered about bringing them at embark is because the cost is same as normal stone, while providing white color deeper check shows no and being rare. Not magma-safe, though...

Also, poor FB. I'm always slightly disappointed when one dies in combat. Dwarven quantum mechanics are always a treat to our minds, though