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It's yet another proof of the versatility of burrows. However, one should be able to tell the dwarves to decorate mugs and low quality clothing with common animal's bones and green glass gems, if so inclined.

As a complement to the mine and channel commands, the undermine command. It digs a tunnel, ánd removes the floor/ceiling of the tunnel as well.

Alternatively, it replaces the rock with a support that can then be triggered to collapse, and the floor above will certainly fall down, attached to other stuff or not. This gives your dwarves time to get out, and the floor can cave-in normally.

It's pretty simple to decide what the standard is: a tile is the cube circumscribed around a dwarf. Presumably then long humanoids can walk in 1-square tunnels crouched (with all the disadvantages that implies). Dwarves, kobolds, short goblins can run freely. Which makes sense, they're the underground dwellers after all: they would be 1 square. I tend to see the long humanoids as two squares in height in that scheme. So a square would be appr. 1 m³. That's 150 liters per level, and that means 15 buckets. Workable.

Displaying it would be a pain. Determining how high creatures are vs their surroundings can be a pain too (eg. a dwarf stands on a square with height 2 while adjacent to him is a silk sock on a square with height 5. Can he grab it?)

Besides being a logical step, it carries a lot of disadvantages, not the least of which is the hassle of updating almost every game interaction. And if that doesn't happen it wouldn't be worthwhile anyway.

For brooks there are other potential solutions, like using the floor cover tile on its own as a floor tile, without requiring water to be under it in worldgen. In addition, ramps could be considered half full instead of completely full, so they too can serve as shallow start points for brooks.

Lastly, check out the Depth by Darkening thread. When that is in, you'll be able to see and enjoy more of the already existing terrain. There is terrain variety now, it's just poorly displayed.

If he doesn't like his job, he'll get a minor bad thought, I reckon. But just for his dislikes. They are, after all, dwarves who engrave for a living and work for clients (in casu the expedition leader, presumably). Bohemian l'art pour l'art types should exist too, but that's something different than your regular engravers.

The giant aphids could get their energy from giant mushrooms. Let's assume they can digest mushroom fiber. Where mushrooms get their energy, remains a puzzle to be solved.

I actually loathe lists. You can't tell by the thread title what it's about, and most of them are ignored anyway.
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