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So, if there is a largest embark with huge 3 caverns with literally 100k spider webs, then game will crawl to stop? OMG! Lag death OMG! So I need floor those webs. I can ignore the useless upward slopes though? I do not think they are counted by the game like construction blocks, or are they.

You could keep wild animals cages, so you can train all your crossbow Dwarves into hunter profession. It makes simpler, when looking for them in u-menu, when they are civilians. I do this to guard squad lead by guard's captain.

Else civilian soldiers do pop up all over place in u-menu, unless they are peasants, which can be confusing sometimes when you look to assign some free Dwarf with new profession. An alternative is to make militia fortress. Then all Dwarves get to be soldiers and craftsmen. Though sending them out, can be detrimental on how your fortress work. The positive is all Dwarves get barracks quality time for focus and happiness.

This is depressive. Barely after 2 seasons I discovered 2 more stressed Dwarves. I disabled hauling on those Dwarves and will see, if that fixes the issue, again. This rain is a murder.

- Dining hall in tavern, drinking in temple, ensuring all dwarves will be No Job in both. Downside is waterskins interfere with the idea.

I tried this solution. I still have dining halls in both tavern and library and barracks in the tavern. Dwarves do not seem to idle much in libraries though. What I do not have any more is drinking stockpile in the temple. Great idea and works superbly, but with one issue. Socializing is relieving stress, while praying is only satisfying focus. So, I put these apart. I never got any priest on any of my embarks, even on latest 0.47.04 embark, but I guess this would help with this combo drink+temple issue.

Military does not need waterskins or backpacks. Those even create issues, so I disable those in supply in military menu. Military in active training will go to temple for a drink, but they will return asap to tavern, where barrack is, to keep training.

It might be a good idea to mention that your embark started in DF version 0.40.24 (released in January 7, 2015) when you post about stress, because my embarks in 0.47.04 seem to be a much different experience than you had. I'm just a little concerned that others who didn't see when you mentioned 0.40.24 will get the wrong idea about stress balance in the current version 0.47.04. There seems to be less need for adjusting PERSONALITY:STRESS_VULNERABILITY in 0.47.04. Thanks in advance!

Good point. I made embark in 0.47.04 and after 5 years the largest embark zone's bug killed its play-ability. I did not provide any sleeping rooms and just basic Dwarven alcohols. Still, despite rain, I had not a single depressed Dwarf. Toady supposedly made test and run fortress with 20 types of booze for 5 years with not a single depressed Dwarf until sieges arrived with dead bodies and gore.

However, this old embark was already played for 5 game-years on 0.40.24. I played on 0.47.04 this embark then for additional 27 game-years. This is not covered even by Toady's tests. Majority of mechanics are working. I copied raws from 0.47.04 into my save and tweaked them, so I have functional library for example with 2 books so far and 1 copy and Dwarves keep reading those just fine. Guildhalls are working also as advertised for socializing. Still all 271 Dwarves are vastly affected in personality changes almost exclusively by rain. Maybe this rain issue has been addressed in last 5 years of DF development, but then why it still affecting my old embark, when I play it on 0.47.04? A rain is a rain, right?

I am sure some new players' embarks will have lots of noob issues, which will cause even more stress on Dwarves, then some stress relieving features missing from this old embark. Won't you agree? That is, specially if they keep playing it and playing it for a long time.

Outsiders of any race will also have a large dagger (20 E/P) to resell, while human-civ will have some type of 10 E/P knife to resell.

Do not sell the large dagger to any Dwarf in your starting settlement, or every single return will cause crash to desktop!

I just  go for skills and stats too. Peasant needs it all. lol
Anything else can be looted from dead corpses or made through perfect fucus giving smashing 2 stones.

I disabled all hauling on the Dwarf. I got it focused by performing 2 armor making jobs and,,, drafting into military, stationing into temple, because she was stuck socializing in tavern, despite all social needs for focus fixed.

Month later stress went away. I guess this is all temporary thing on this Dwarf.

Still, fixing focus made stress go away. Focus is impacting how fast stress goes away. Dwarves are really really bad at managing their temple/tavern/library own needs. Very very bad. It seems the location Dwarf somehow ends in, when out of job, glues them to that location, despite all needs there satisfied and in other locations needs are not satisfied.