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The question remains: why dye thread.
It is woven automatically into cloth, which can be dyed, there are no other uses for thread.
finished goods (clothing) cannot be dyed, fine they are made from cloth.
sew cloth image is made from cloth.

It must be something which has planned features still missing...

When you do, dwarves will try to use it to get water.
Even when something blocks the wellshaft, it then generates a message along the lines of "Alrast cancels job get water from well: no water".

tasks that take them into water of 3-4 deep also scares them.

(I'm currently dumping animal corpses in a ramped pit near my butchery, the message the cancellation generates is nice because I can then go to the pit and un-dump the meat for processing. Benefit: Dump designation reaches the whole map, while the butchershop has only a small effective reach.)
Also, I just found out having the same dwarf hunt and butcher is ineffective, she will run around the map killing everything and let the abatoir turn into a putrecene factory.

[ May 14, 2008: Message edited by: Areyar ]

You a biologist Chtulu, or just a fascination with the macabre?

sorry spam. I'll try to rectify it with some relevant biotech babble.

Anyhow You are right to point out the rotting imp in magma, it should by logic just decay without smell or melt. ...on the other hand, if it floats, convection would enable smoke etc to dissipate from the corpse...smell of burning chitin..hmmm. noxic smoke: fumes from some smoldering fire retardant materials can actually be quite toxic. unsure if carbon monoxide and similarly reducing anoxic fumes are an issue with magma...in open air oxygen supply is no problem, but in a cave?

Or perhaps with their long lifespans they get all philosophical and ponder the meaning of rock or the many shades of grey in antracite, alcohol would blurr these intriguing thoughts and leave a dwarf in a mood to do something physical.

Dwarves can be very focussed (as demonstrated by the various strange moods and obsessions), alcohol may dull the brilliance of dorfs just enough to get some work done during the day. (without running off muttering to themselves and selfishly claiming all sorts of stuff)

I tried killing the monster sturgeon named that lives in the tastiest pond, but managed to lose 5 dwarfs. (I cheated with a hard reset)
The carp have grown fat on dwarf chunks and the river is positively bursting with carp now and is stained red for two seasons in a row.
This was after I tried to build a pump in order to drain the pond, but the builders were terrified to get near it(unless thirsty).

experiment in using a grate to filter the river didn't work: grates are built at surface level...putting it in a tunnel might work, but I doubt it. Would vertical bars do the trick?

I just robbed a rope off those haughty elven traders, for some reason they were offended by me selling them corpse clothes of animal derivated materials and I really wanted that rope.
Probably I should build a defensive wall inside the moat to defend agains possible  punatitive actions from them.

anyhow. nighty night.  

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