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 Toady stated there is a local moisture value, which trees take up. Thus around each tree is a ring of space where trees can't grow.

 Interesting how Toady tracks the moisture of the soil.

I'm getting solid mass trees too though.
It's been a few years and they are pretty much cluttering up all space (trees growing right next to trees is a norm here).
I'm guessing I'll have to equip my dwarves with axes pretty soon if I want them to do ANYTHING outside.

Yes, but this takes away the fun of getting nonsense artifacts.

What fun?
It's rather anti-climactic if you ask me, just having received another steel diamond-encrusted toy axe.
If I could only sell it to the traders or something... Or give it to toddlers to play with.

Hello!

Actually, in my current fortress, only my nobles have rooms at the moment as I am busy preparing my defenses and work on the nobles' rooms (Hammerer and Tax Collector still don't have any rooms and the baron's wife doesn't have a tomb yet).

The unconscious/conscious thing does not seem a likely explanation:

Originally, a recover job is spawned.
This job is cancelled because of a cougar.
The cougar is taken care of by the dwarf who tried to recover the wounded very quickly after the notification.
Many months pass and no new recover job is spawned.
A bed room is created and shortly thereafter, a new recover job is spawned.

In the meantime, I had another injured dwarf (probably slept on a trap and was lucky) who got recovered immediately, even though he didn't have a private room. But I think that dwarf was not hunting at the time. So, I think that hunting has something to do with this.

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Did the dwarf that got recovered in the meanwhile take up the last unassigned bed per chance?
Meaning a bed that isn't a barrack, room or whatever.

I believe only those beds are listed as hospital beds.
Whatever the case, there's mostly a logical explanation if dwarves don't carry wounded away, even if it isn't always the most obvious.

All my wounded dwarves were always hauled to safety, whatever the case, only sometimes I had to puzzle for a bit to get them to do it (tiny easily-overlooked reasons stopping them).
And sometimes they just take some time to do it (especially if they have other important jobs).

You could transfer him to a bed at the gates to your fortress, as a sort of sentry. If anyone attacks they have to get past the dwarven cripple.

Believe it or not, this was my initial idea.
However, I just can't find a way to let the dwarves carry the wounded to exactly that bed.
They mostly stuff him in another barrack bed once I deconstruct the one he's lying in.
I even designated the bed near the front gate as his own, but still they throw him in whatever other bed is closer by.
Do I have to deconstruct every single bed in order to get them to actually carry the cripple to the front gate?

Make the pain stop!

They have aspirin for that, you know. Consult a farmacy.

Giant Bats are worse than Giant Cave Swallows.

What? I dare you to say that again!
Just 20 minutes ago from now I lost 5 good dwarves to Cave Swallows. 2 others were gravely wounded with mangled body parts.

During the entire length of my fortress I've lost 7 dwarves to Cave Swallows.. 2 isolated incidents, and 5 in the massacre that just happened a few minutes ago.
One time a lone woodcutter was attacked, but he got in a lucky slash and survived unharmed.

However...

Shortly after this, a group of immigrants arrived from the north, and as such they had to walk around the chasm. Usually all activity is from the south side.

All looked good and well... what I didn't notice was that 3 Giant Cave Swallows had seen the migrants arrive and trailed them towards my fortress, or, more importantly, towards my more experienced dwarves that were busy collecting lumber that the woodcutters left behind a little to the west of my fort entrance.

Suddenly I noticed one of the swallows chasing a migrant away from the group, and I immediately set my army to go outside and help the guy. While they were running outside, another migrant got torn apart by a Giant Cave Swallow more to the north that I hadn't even noticed.

A group of archers arrived, but it was too late.. Just as they arrived the migrant got torn apart as well. The first (unbelievably agile) archer arrived first, and took stance, but the Swallow swooped high, dodging his shots and swooped down again, breaking the archers arm instantly.
A legendary miner was nearby, and I activated him to help the archer. Together they killed the swallow, but not before the archers arm was mangled.

Meanwhile more to the north, the other swallows were swooping down on two other workers busy carrying lumber. I set my other archers on a detour to help them out, but once again they arrived too late.

One archer loosened all his bolts and ran towards the swallow, which was still busy tearing an experienced leatherworker/weaver apart. Just as he arrived there, the Swallow was done ripping limbs off, and turned his attention to the incoming archer. The swallow charged, but the archer dodged... Right into a chasm. Nothing was ever seen or heard from him again.

The left-over swallow was shot down quickly, as was the other, that had just started hitting on the last migrant (mangling his arm before being shot down).

I had to use up half of all my new-come migrants to replace the casualties.

The one and probably only problem with this community.

How is humour a problem?
... even if it's rather awful. xD

That doesn't make the bad puns any less hilarious.

You people do know that "Giant Cave Swallow" and "Giant Cave Spider" both have the letters 'GCS', right?

I'm guessing all the GCS mentions here are towards the spider, and not the swallow. But I think it's causing some confusion. ^^;