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I know, for many years, many players time after time required cooking receipts for kitchen. All their suggestions made lots of sense, but were not crucial and we never saw a single improvement in this area. Then came the psycho system in with 0.44.11.

IT IS ***CRUCIAL*** NOW TO STOP DWARVES FROM FALLING INTO DEPRESSION.

So Toady, HELP! HELP! HELP! the depression is crushing this game. Just add D-option for kitchen please, so we can add all the ingredients for easy, fine and lavish meal manually. O-be-one Toady, you're the only help, to many severely depressed Dwarves mulling mortified, ashamed and shaken over cloths rotting on them! And then over some rain and some random human dead body. Yeah, those depressive thoughts do add.

Bonus, this functionality would accidentally fix the bug with cooking with alcohol, which pests the bug report forum for last decade.

PS. It would help if z-stocks menu for prepared meals had toggle option to check for how many of each type ingredients are in these meals too. Meal name tells only about 1 ingredient. Maybe if we could pick with d-option first ingredient, the one which is naming the meal, then it maybe could help fix this issue too.
PS2. Could be something done about Dwarves not eating in the designed dining room? Eating in legendary dinning room helps with depression too.

How about Toady looking around for some musical talents to donate some copyright-free songs/albums to Dwarf Fortress? Because, why not? He could set up announce on this forum to all users. Then he could contact volunteers with their account's email address. It is doable. Imagine streaming on Twitch Dwarf Fortress game with A LOT more songs to it. There have to be few musicians, who love Dwarf Fortress too.

My issues usually result from bringing trading goods to Depot or rising alarm for Dwarves to hide in burrow during siege. Else farmers are rather tender with those wheelbarrows.

(To be fair to ToadyOne I believe that QSP's are an 'exploit' in the classic sense of being an unintended possibility of game mechanics.)

Oh, so you are also from the choir preaching QSP are an "exploit" because having 100 stone boulders on 1m2 is unrealistic? So, you imagine storage there you put one tiny sock in area of 1m2 and then second tiny sock in another 1m2 area is to contrary very realistic and indeed what people always should do... With stinking socks maybe yeah, but new ones? Come on. Oh well, I do not share this believe, though stone and wood QS could use some limitations, because how high this stockpile really is. 2m? 5m? Well, it hurts when you fall 1 level, so not 1m for sure.

• Socks <- socks and dwarves don't mix without issues. In this case most likely only one sock will be worn.

With my arrangement for uniform set up, there is no uniform issue with socks or other clothing. Dwarf always put civilian stuff first on, military second on. So my militia/military Dwarves are always wearing both socks. Only clothing made out of cloth in my fortress. Rest of clothing is made out of leather. In my current fortress, which is 15 years old, I didn't see yet a 1-sock trooper. Additional bonus is my civilian Dwarves enjoy defense bonuses from leather cloths, which in savage pocket world are useful. I had civilians on my earlier embarks losing arms and legs to savage animals. It doesn't happen any more.

The point with civilian clothing under armor is, it is out of leather. Leather brings leather armor defense value under metal armor value. So, I have strong preference for my military Dwarves to have civilian cloths under their metal armor. This is the reason why I put ban in my fortress on mittens, shoes, shirts and tunics, because they do not fit under military armor. Before I didn't care to remove them before hand, as they rot-off naturally from my Dwarves and... case closed.

Now, cloth-rot is causing major psycho havoc, because:
- clothing system is not polished
- psycho system is not polished
- military system is not polished
- tool-users system with hunters, miners and woodcutters is not fixed up
- last failed attempt by Toady at economic system implementation, left Dwarves stealing goods from stockpiles and is unfixed

Unbalanced, unpolished and lacking features (like hinting Dwarven best jobs, or stopping punishing with depression Dwarves for being miners) BELIEF SYSTEM makes Dwarven cloth replacement so extremely touchy. I surely wished Toady did not switched this system on, before making some serious overhaul on it.

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Ok. Here it comes. Right now Dwarf is depressing again. However when it was panic stricken with fear it was "afraid relieving experiencing trauma".

6. In military menu a civilian dress code. (So I can set Dwarves to not put on themselves tunics, shirts, mittens, leggings and shoes, which do collide with military dress code and which are also an overflow in cloths for a need to cover body parts. Else I would need still d-b-d for XX-XX clothing, because those rotting cloths will cause issues)

My seed cap used to be always 2000 and I grew like 6 dwarven crops and 2 surface fruits/plants for brews. Now my limit is 6000 seeds, as someone here suggested to me. Now, I grew 8 surface plants/fruits there all are for brewing besides garden cress. Most of my surface farming is from harvesting wild plants, but lately I've got some berries from human caravan to expand that. I guess if I had elves, they would provide a lot more of surface berries and plants. That makes me almost wanting to start on new world that takes advantages from raids. One with a lot of civilizations and very populous, though still pocket size. lol

Systems I wish badly would get overhaul by Toady are:
1. Stress (dampen emotional reactions a wee, specially for rain)
2. Clothing (5 years instead of 2 years for wearing off)
3. Smelting (1:1 ratio of make to smelt metal items)
4. Automation (location pasture for animal automation? seed stockpiles giving to farm plots alternatively farming locations?)
5. Economy rework, so Dwarfs are not stealing random items, just to feel better. (special depot, there dwarves can acquire stuff from fortress, and nowhere else from, so I do not need to reposes their stuff with d-b-d)

I do not ask for reworking entire systems, or creating entire new ones. Just small adjustments here and there to what we have already in. In other words... a feature polish.