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Consider yourself lucky, a good chunk of the deaths in tomeburies before the fps death set in were to me not noticing as someone got stuck somewhere and dehydrated to death (normally up a tree)

I've found it's worth doing a health check on the z menu every couple weeks.  If you have a dwarf hungry or thirsty, especially with no task, it's worth checking if they're trapped somewhere because they often are.

Another trap I've seen is weird shaped workshops (like the bowyer's workshop) where there are inconveniently located impassable spaces.  If you put workshops into 3x3 rooms with doors, often the dwarf doing it traps himself inside.

Dear writers: An observable and measurable phenomena isn't anti-science or anti-logic no matter what it is called.

Because here is the difference between what a REAL scientist would do and what a fictional scientist would do.

A REAL scientist would seek to understand the phenomenon and conduct experiments to measure, quantify, and categorize the phenomenon.

The fictional scientist would immediately declare that because this phenomenon doesn't match their definition of science or logic... that either it must not be scientific or logical... OR that science and logic are inherently wrong.

You mean that's the model of how a scientist would optimally behave.  Scientists are human like everyone else, though, and even when they should know better, very often actually will take a hostile, close-minded approach to some novel concept.  Often, this is actually reasonable as a general purpose nonsense filter, but it can degenerate into rigidity and behavior that ignores actual evidence the older idea is actually flawed or outright wrong.

At its worst, it takes an entire generation dying off before a new concept reaches acceptance.

Fictional scientists may be more inclined to this kind of deliberately dumb behavior, especially if they're in some villainous role.

Dorfs eat at the "closest" free table. "Closest" usually means closest, as the dorf digs, to the location the dorf was at when deciding to eat. Thus, you should build your library so it's usually further away from working dorfs than the tavern if you want them to eat at the tavern rather than the library.

Depending on the layout, you could probably use traffic designations to make the route to the library look further away.  They add travel cost per tile, so by modifying the size, you could discourage travel to the library so they'd only go there if they were specifically looking for the library.

Oh, yeah, and biofuels are fucking stupid, by the way. At the moment most of them are literally just wasting carbon. Costs like a liter of oil to get 0.7 liters of equivalent energy biofuel.

Not all of them are.  Some of them are from material that otherwise would likely go to waste, like waste cooking oil.  Clearly, that isn't a large enough source to make much of a dent, but it's probably worth reclaiming on a small scale at least.  There's also cellulosic ethanol, with plants like switchgrass that aren't otherwise useful and require very little cultivation.  That's not yet practical on a large scale but certainly has potential.

I agree with you on most forms of this, though, especially corn ethanol.  Not only is that inefficient, it's literally burning food, and the alternate use of corn as a fuel source has raised prices of corn in Mexico and other countries to the point it has inadvertently exacerbated already existing food problems.  It's essentially a government subsidy to large corn companies like Archer Daniels Midland and Pioneer and the like, which already get entirely enough tax money.  It's one of the biggest boondoggles that routinely makes it into the usually boondoggle-filled Farm Bill in the U.S.

You know what would be great? Better then any new idea that could be implemented right now? To be able to have a fortress with hundreds of dwarves and livestock and visitors! Build without worrying about path finding, cat explosions, building without a children cap.

How do you suggest just doing away with path finding?  It's an absolutely central mechanic and it isn't like there's some mathematical solution that just makes it all go away.

Office access: Yes, she does. It's attached to her bedroom, the door is unlocked. She was in her bedroom.
It is an office; she has a separate dining room designated.
And there is a table next to the chair.

That having been said, she did, eventually, start managing. I just can't for the life of me figure out why she wasn't. I don't like bulk job orders simply getting queued being at the mercy of an in-game unit's whimsy.

An unskilled manager seems to be very slow.  As she skills up, it should become faster.  Also some dwarves lack personality traits necessary to gain manager skills and will literally never get any better otherwise, which will result in bad management.

The incentive itself is fine. The lack of leniency for special circumstance is perverse

It's perverse under these circumstances because it discourages anyone from putting resources into future such incentives, seeing as they will also be likely to be handled in an incompetent way that disregards changed circumstances and instead punishes those who cooperated.

If they consider it important enough to maintain the purity of the value-increasing free range label that they aren't going to change that, it seems it would simply make sense to do something to offset the resulting harm (at least partially) and keep people who acted in good faith from being unduly punished and, more importantly, ensuring they don't simply abandon the project entirely.

Not forgetting altruism, they might be raging violent sadists  but detached from their civilisation they indeed still have hopes to be decent and even kind members of society with a better chance at life & overwhelming positive features.

Also for some reason, they seem to get elected mayor a lot.