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This may not be a bug.  Remember that all items on reclaim are forbidden. and you have to unforbid them before a dwarf will touch them in any way.  This is to prevent all dwarves from immediately running into the fort filled with monsters to retrieve all the various items.

Have you checked to see if the items are forbidden?

False ribs are the name for the bottom several ribs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_ribs

Moss doesn't really do anything but sit there.  But it's really hard to actually see it in Fortress mode - you have to have a fort that lasts something like 15-20 years (my 13 year fortress doesn't have any moss yet).  So it took a long time to discover (since most forts don't last longer than 5-7 years).

Moss only grows on constructed structures, outside, after a long period of time.

Quote from: Protactinium on March 13, 2010, 11:29:36 pm

Also, surnames have often been of professions if not of place of origin.

See:

Joe Carpenter
Joe Smith
Joe... uh... Patel? (Farmer)

Carter, Tanner, Fisher, Shepard...

. . .Cooper, Trader, Sterling, Baker. . .

I think the devlog helps a lot.  I know with games like Cortex Command where - even though I know that logically the guy is working on it - there's no way I'd donate because there's no tangible way to realize the game is progressing until he releases a new version (and that seems to happen only once every year at the most).

That's a good idea (the benchmark fortress idea).

I'm playing on a mac, and I seem to be getting pretty similar performance to what I was getting with d18 - which is much higher than any of the previous d#s. 

I'm an atheist, but I'm always down for some hagiography.

What about St. Chad?  He's the patron saint of good losers.  He seems like a pretty laid back guy. 

Also, FWIW, I think that the religion of the dwarves of Dwarf Fortress would fit in well with something like Catholicism - awesome chanting and old ceremonies and massive vaulted stone caverns (like cathedrals) and candles and lots of old, traditional religious 'tools' (like ancient saint relics & old crosses &c.).

I dunno.  When I think of dwarf religion, I either think of the dwarves as being very practical and not generally having ceremonies (even if all the individual dwarves are actually quite pious), or as having elaborate ceremonies with lots of gold and with religious costumes & such (more like Catholicism).



Also, lets try to avoid turning this into a religious debate thread.  Some people are religious, some aren't, and that's all cool.  And it sucks when someone insults another's belief (or lack thereof).  And we all love Dwarf Fortress, so it shouldn't really matter anyway.