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Wandering merchants may come to your fort and give your dwarves some weird products. Such as magical masks, magic lamps, lamp oil, ropes, bombs, "hearts", wool, weapons, wood, ammunition and some strange looking "pills". The merchants would always appear in convenient places. They would be seen walking in the desert, near evil biomes infested with zombies, in some long forgotten caves, or inside immobile caravans.

Merchants now only accept rubies in trade

(CLT) is nowhere near the number of items you had lol. you would have reached max clutter level in a workshop with under 300 of your coin stacks. I can't say for sure, but the game seems to have a lot of trouble handling the "weight" of many small stacks of small objects. Pick up say, 1000 gems in adventure mode (do not actually do this it takes hours and hurts your hands) and things start getting really confused. your container will suddenly start weighing more than it should be able to hold or than it should actually weight at all, but you will still be able to put things in. Im not at all surprised that suddenly spawning so many items caused something weird to happen for you. That number is so high I'm surprised the game was even running.

As for why it decided to burst into flames, i don't know for sure but I can make a guess. Merchants drop items they cannot hold after receiving them in trade, which I'm pretty sure applies to your broker too. I guess that dropping works the same as dumping something in a pit and has some form of physics? Coins are pretty infamous for behaving badly with physics so I guess the staggering volume of insignificant interactions made something in the code do a stupid? Either way you outdid the edge cases I've seen for "many small objects acting weird" by an order of magnitude so it could be anything.

Great story btw.

So they're just really damn rare now I guess? that should probably be fixed as I looked through something like 20/30 different worlds (advanced gen, med 100/150 years, no major changes aside from no "periodic erosion" and insanely high beast spawns (as in 3 digits of semis) for what I was testing) before writing my post and didn't see a single one. Also adding labyrinths to night ghouls make them build them? Cool, didn't actually know that.

"Regardless of population" technically is correct. The trigger only controls already crazed werebeasts being summoned onto your map a la megabeasts. Attacks from other sources, such as visitors/migrants/random NPCs on the map who just happen to have been infected in worldgen are unaffected by it. I don't know if that's intentional or not but you can 100% be attacked by werebeasts before even the first migrant wave happens. You can sorta prevent that by not opening any locations to the public until you're prepared, and one thing a lot of people don't seem to know is that building destroyers (werebeasts specifically) are horribly bugged and very easy to stop with regular old locked doors (just leave the door unlocked until they're about to go through then lock it in their face and their pathing breaks. Or just make it impossible to get out of your tavern without having to go through the bottom of a hatch cover.).

That said I don't think the fact that the same few exploits that trivialize literally every other threat in the game work against them is a good enough reason to say that werebeasts aren't overtuned ATM. I think it's fair to say that werebeasts are a more real threat that just about everything else you can randomly encounter short of like, a flying steel blob with dust/webbing related to death and nightmares showing up

Locked doors are handled by a flag on the item IIRC, and you can change the prisoner's position and entity links to have the game actually consider them a prisoner. That said I don't know if they'd actually stay in the locked room once the site was unloaded.

Is how, uhhh, religious worlds tend to get with age intended? I know dwarves doing stuff like being members of multiple organized religions is a bug, but older worlds also have a huge proliferation of priests, to the point where a bit before the necros take over everything almost every npc you talk to is some sort of holy crystal or sacred smoke or something.

I tend to do 100/150 years to test new reactions and stuff myself, with a few 3 to 6 hundred year gens thrown in here and there to make sure nothing goes wrong in older worlds.

I believe the token NIGHT_CREATURE_NIGHTMARE actually does exactly that. Same with making the creature a type of boogeyman.