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OP Dude, why don't you set the flag SET_LABOR_LISTS in d_init.txt to NO. This disables all main skills from migrants so they are just left with the default hauling skills and feed wounded skills (which you probably want on noobs anyway). However they keep their titles, e.g. Fisherdwarf in the units screen. So whenever you need extra labour for an industry, it is easy to go down and pick an unused dorf, enable the required skill and add a customised profession name, e.g. fisher* (so that you can quickly distinguish in the units screen who you have and haven't assigned skills yet).

Using this simple system, I find no need for Dwarf Therapist, hence the LNP, because I can handle fortresses of 200+ dorfs with ease.

I have been trying to play adventure mode exclusively these past couple of months. I am used to following the advice given in the Powerplay guide, but now I am wondering if the real challenge is to do things by the book so to speak. If you power farm your skills in the beginning without facing real danger, then things become a bit too easy later I find.

So I was wondering, how many of you have played "iron man" mode and what is the furthest you have got before getting killed? What I mean by iron man is basically you do not do most things as recommended in the powerplay guide, including but not limited to:

repeatedly doing low damage strikes to defenceless animal training dummies
repeatedly throwing objects like mud and coins into thin air to level up the throwing skill
very selectively choosing the character traits so as to end up with the most easiest to satisfy needs as possible
stealing armor items at your starting location, ie just walking out without paying for them
the use of macros to level up skills when and wherever possible
using strategies, while not being outright exploits, feel a bit cheaty such as sneaking everywhere, using the OP status of throwing, etc.

So basically, a squeaky clean adventure. How far have you got?

In legends viewer I spotted a fortress ruin with a population of 1 forgotten beast who had settled there and presumably killed off the locals.

So in adventure mode I went there with a party hoping to find and kill the resident beast. However I search the entire fortress top to bottom and didn't find a single soul. I think this is the second time this has happened. I was playing a different map a few months ago and couldn't find a resident forgotten beast. Is this a bug?

Trying to make my way in the world as a bard. Just wondering why it is so painfully slow to level up skills in poetry and music. I have been standing in a tavern for a few days giving constant singing and poetry recitals and my skills in the various forms level up oh so very slowly. Compared to being a warrior and levelling up combat skills it is all very tedious. To top it all, when I try to concentrate on giving performances for musical forms that I started out skilled with, the game ignores those skills and creates a new separate line on my status screen at the Dabbling level. So I am now levelling up Dabbling XXX where a few lines above I already have a Skilled XXX of the same name. Is a career in the performing arts bugged in general and should I just stick to being a warrior type?

I have never messed with DFHack, preferring just to play vanilla DF. Could I ask what main things I am missing by not doing the exportlegends info command thing. Just to give me an idea if its worth going through installing DFHack or not. Is the amount of information available doubled? Or is it just minor embellishments that come with the expanded file?

It wouldn't use the kinetic energy of a moving liquid, more like geothermal energy, so converting the heat of the magma underneath to usable power. Systems like this exist in the real world.

It would be good if we could designate items as a group for moving to the trade deport. So we could have d-b-t and use it in the same way as mass claiming or mass forbidding items. I usually set up stockpiles right next to the trade depot for things like worn clothes and this would make it easy when the caravan comes. For more consistency, maybe it should actually be d-b-g as the g key is used by the depot itself to transport goods.

Just to let you know that I downloaded the 1.15 .dmg and it gave the same problem. I am running MacOS Sierra 10.12.6. However I tried downloading the .jar file and that runs ok. Thanks very much for developing such a useful tool for us Mac DF players.