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My military managed to kill a forgotten beast without a single injury, really proud of them, I went ahead and setup a schedule for them to have some free time every season, so they can pray and be with friends, but most of them just want to train anyway.

Scheduling military training only sort of works in the current version in my opinion.  As long as a barracks is designated for the squad, military dwarves will prioritize individual combat drills over other leisure activities (socializing, reading books, praying, watching demonstrations, etc.).  This is arguably the opposite of how you would expect the schedule to work since the idea of a schedule would presumably giving them time off of military duty.  If you want your military dwarves to do other leisure activities while they are on leave, you need to un-designate their barracks.  Since you can't automate the undesignation of their barracks, training schedules are not terribly useful. 

So they just arrived.  The outpost liaison acting like everything was normal and the caravan coming with a modest load.  It's been 11 years since I saw them last.  No real explanation as to what made them come back. Some merchant was stuck and eventually died or went insane, maybe.

Polar bears have obscene alcohol tolerance.  A polar bear just guzzled 100 units of alcohol and is still walking. 

Thanks for the help all.  I was aware that getting dwarves to marry was a chore and have a lovemaking suite set up for this purpose.  I actually just use two bedrooms each with their own door and a common hallway with a third set of doors.  I assign one bedroom to each dwarf in the couple and lock them in when they come to sleep (have to unassign any bedrooms anywhere else). Sometimes the simple act of assigning the bedroom will make them move some of their stuff there even if they aren't sleepy.  Once both are locked in their beds, I lock the door to the common hallway, unlock the bedrooms, and designate a tavern (food and drinks have already been stored in the hallway.  Then I just wait for them to get married.  If after becoming lovers they don't marry after a few months I assume that at least one of them is not the marrying type and let them out.  So far 5 couples have gotten married this way 

However, I didn't realize that even after getting married dwarves are still bad at finding their spouses and making time for their family duties.  I have started calling them back into the lovemaking suite and so far a baby has resulted.  The same process for calling them into the suite still works when they are married.  I just assign both of the bedrooms in the suite to the couple.  Once one of them comes and gets locked in, the other will choose the other bedroom when he or she gets sleepy. 

So I am not getting any migrants at the moment so I am trying to grow my population the old fashioned way. I have 5 married couples in my fort, but they don't seem to be getting very busy.  Does anyone know the exact mechanics of what causes pregnancy?  I have plenty of food and drinks, little stress, a light workload, the married women are kept from danger, and they all seem pretty happy.  Do I have to make sure that the married couples idle together? Socialize together? Sleep at the same time? Is it really just spores and there is nothing I can do? I have a 1 year old and 2 four year olds and some older kids.  So some births are happening, but it's not the one baby per couple per year that is rumored. 

One of my weaponsmiths likes maces and decided that the proper material for her artifact was adamantine.  It's worth almost 1 million dwarf bucks, but I doubt the efficacy in battle. 

I really would like to see artifact gauntlets and boots come in pairs.  They are underwhelming as it is, but the fact that they come in singles makes them specifically unsatisfying.