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Also hospital training.  In my hospital fortress, I set up a tavern ASAP and have it staffed with a dedicated tavern keeper, but no brawls yet.  I think I don't have enough idle dwarfs. 

I think worrying too much about hauling times to your kitchen is not worth it (within reason).  Lavish meals will give you stacks of 20+ meals.  Dwarfs need to eat 1 time a month.  With 200 dwarfs you need to cook 10 times a month.  This means a max of 40 hauling jobs a month (really a *lot* less because you will use meat, alcohol and processed foods as well).  Basically you have about 1.5 hauling jobs a day *max* (and plants are really light).  Even if it takes your hauling dwarf half a day to reach your kitchen, you are still going to be utilising only about 1 dwarf out of 200 for hauling food.  If you are running such a tight ship that this is unacceptable, then the dwarf will probably end up in the tavern, drinking and brawling anyway ;-)

Edit* Maybe most jobs require at least 1 day to finish.

I really wish there were an easy way to tell how long a task will take (on average).  Of course it depends on skill for a lot of things, but if something took 1 hour, it would be nice to know that you could have a job size of 10 and it wouldn't really make a difference for scheduling.  However, my take is that it is almost never beneficial to set recurring job sizes to more than 1 per workshop.

Speaking of which, one of the nice(ish) things about the system is that if you have 3 different jobs queued for a workshop and the first job finishes in less than a day, the second one will get started.  In fact, it seems to  set the job in the workshop exactly the way you would do by hand.  You can look at the workshop to see what is scheduled.

Which leads me to:

By the way, the topic just reminded me.
I had charcoal making order(refined coal at most 50) which went wrong for no reason, the dwarves keep making new charcoals despite there were alredy 1400 of them.
I had to delete the order and create a new one, that fixed the problem. I don't know if it was a bug or I accidentally changed daily to yearly.

I totally forgot about this, because I avoid it now.  If you set a job manually in the workshop, it can screw up the work orders.  The way I get around this is that if I want to add a manual job to a workshop, I cancel the work order jobs (in the workshop -- not the work order) first and then add the manual task.  This seems to work every time.  Similarly, if you remove a work order that is already activated, you have to be careful to cancel the job from the workshop, because it can sometimes just repeat forever.  Sorry I didn't think about mentioning that before now!

I had two suspected infected after a wereskink attack, so I put them in a side room. Only one turned out to be infected, and is currently devouring the other dwarf.

Easiest way to deal with this is to put the suspected werebeasts in the military and station them on the corners of the map, out of sight of the others.  You can do this 1-2 days before the full moon (but just keep an eye on them to see if they do something stupid like go to get a drink).    If they can't see anything to attack, they will just stand there.

Now that you have a werebeast, if you want to keep them alive, you just need to remember to station them somewhere secluded every month (warning: the full moon shifts by 2 days every month!).  I built a small hut (without a door!) for mine so he didn't get rained on.  You should also give them a flask/waterskin so that they always have a drink, which will reduce the occurrences of them wandering off to get a drink right at the full moon.  Also, if you get seiged, werebeast is out the door, obviously since you can't reasonably open up all the gates at full moon.

Basically, as long a nobody sees the transformed dwarf, you will be a-OK.  If you make a mistake, and a dwarf starts attacking/being attacked, do *not* attempt to save them.  Burrow your guys out of sight.  If anyone witnesses the attack, it can cause a loyalty cascade which can take out half your fortress.

I notice many people being frustrated with werebeasts, but while fiddly, they are not that hard to manage.

Am I reading this right? Will we be able to take the fight to the enemy?

To a certain extent you can already do this in adventure mode.  I've managed to wipe out the kobolds once (which is not terribly difficult, travel aside).  The one thing that would be very nice is to get a mention in Legends mode.  World generation often has battles with 4 against 20 for instance.  I've gone into goblin pits and wiped out 20-30 goblins with nary a mention in Legends.

It would be cool to have mentions like when an adventurer party kills more than X adversaries at a site, or more than Y%, or even when you manage to completely overrun the site. Interestingly, when I murdered a sleeping army (that bug still exists!) it's invasion was marked as defeated in Legends mode, but didn't mention my adventurer, or his group.

I have not managed to steal an artifact yet, but probably that should be next on my todo list.  Hard to find them in this version.  Mightily looking forward to the update :-)

You need to know a form that uses the instrument.  I've wondered if hearing a song in a tavern will allow you to learn the form, but haven't had time to experiment yet.  Other things to try are finding books with songs in them.  I've never actually seen one, but since you can write them, it should be possible.

When I get that problem it's almost always because they are being hauled somewhere or carried/used by someone.  If they are in bins, that's often the source of the problem.  If they are armour or weapons that dwarfs are using now, you need to get them to use something else first so that they drop the item.