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I didn't think it could be done the way I'd like, but I was hoping.  *sigh*

FWIW, I do have a peasant permanently restricted to the Hospital Burrow, whose duties are purely feeding the wounded, retrieving injured and cleansing wounds.  With the custom profession of "Orderly."   She's permanently ecstatic, because everything in that burrow is masterwork/artifact and when she's idle she walks around staring at the walls & furnishings, blissed out of her pointy little head.

The hossie also doubles as my "Guard Barracks," for the Cpt. of the Guard's squad.  To be eligible for his squad, they need to be legless.  Well...  can't stand, anyway.  Mainly for ex-military types...    If they're permanently stuck in a hospital bed anyway, I may as well add them to that squad.  They don't do anything, but it does make them easy to find.  And one can hope.

I really don't want to assign any other dwarves there permanently or give them only medical duties; with <40 dorfs total in an obviously violent area I already have a serious labour shortage.  (And new migrants rarely make it through the gamut to the Fort.)

I'm thinking Brucemo's is probably the best way to manage things.  It's very close to how I'm already managing it and would make it easier.  :thumbsup:

I have built a Stairway to Heaven.  That terminates in a drawbridge... hanging several dozen z-levels over my fort entrance.  Which, in turn, is basically just a floored over magma pit.

I store my prisoners there in cages hooked to a lever.   When the entrance is under siege, I release the prisoners into the drawbridge room, then open the drawbridge.   Creates a lovely magmasplosion!   

Takes a bit of time to reset, of course.  But that's all part of the fun.

A hock of venison.

Not what I wanted, but next year I'll move the bear-traps closer to  the chimney.   

As said, all dwarves will eat vermin when they're starving.

However, I've noticed a few of my more...  "odd" ones have developed a taste for vermin even when there's plenty of tucker.  It can be a right pain in the arse when you're trying to catch/tame a small animal and a hungry miner keeps dropping in looking for lunch.  *sigh*

So it has been a while since I last played DF...  and it has taken me a while to get my head around 31.12   (Well worth it, though!)

But now I'm being spammed big time by announcements about inaccessible items. I think this is due to large cavern system, but I want to check that I haven't stupidly unforbidden something in the bottom of a well or river or...

So, I looks at the error.log and most of the items are this msg over 'n over again:

path fail: dwarf,Pickup Equipment,97,108,174 -> 5,152,133: Id #4934:Path Goal Grab Uniform:Station Mill Building at 68,94,173

OK. I assume 97,108,174 is where the dwarf currently is, 5, 152,133 is where he's trying to get to and 68,94,173 is...?

Come to that, how are the co-ords interpreted? x,y,z?  Is the bottom LH corner 0,0,0? 

My brain hurts... 

Discovering how ramps actually work.

Or, more to the point, discovering that - under certain conditions - a ramp will not support that large multi-level area I'd been mining out with future intent to collapse...

I like it just the way it is.

That's the way they work here in Oz, anyway... turn to face the wind and then start spinning.  For a top-down view, it's already as accurate as it gets.  Except, perhaps for the wind-vane to do the orienting.

I'm against the idea of having it as a vertical windmill.  Sure, it'd look cool but it'd increase the CPU loading.  All 9 tiles would have to be animated constantly while the windmill is running, instead of the current 3.

I'd much rather put the CPU cycles to getting some decent FPS from my 100+ fort than to try and make my windmill farm look... "pretty."   

(And before you write off an extra 6 tiles as "negligible," don't forget that some of us have windmill farms as large, if not larger, as their forts...)