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And I don't mean idle dwarves hooking up.

My last migration consisted of 19 children and 10 adults.

considering my population is now 44, things do not look positive.  Unless I get a ton of successful snatchers.

I wonder it the all mighty toady, happened to turn on recording when testing the minecart launch, goblin fight...

If so... Please release!

I was reading the dwarf checkerboard thread, and long story short the author created a large number of HFS encased in obsidian.

Anyways, It inspirired me to suggest that it could be awesome if blocks of encased units be treated as special.  You can put them on display, or carve a memorial into them.

Other cool stuff could be done in the workshops, crafts, tools, statues etc made from encased blocks could have special properties, especially if the encased are increadibly powerful.  Maybe a statue from encased HFS could "wake" up in the future and walk arround as some freaky HFS Ghost/Golem made out of obsidian, or ice. Cursed stone swords could also be made

Do Goblins run from Magma?

If so you could line a hallway with traps, then release them at one end, with a slow surge of magma behind them. The goblins might run for their hides from the magma through trap after trap, maybe make them wooden training weapon traps to limit damage.  Also you could line up crossbow dwarves a z level or two to add to the gauntlet

I'm in a freezing biome, with an aquifer and cliff. I'ld like to provide drainage for the aquifer off the cliff, but the wate keeps freezing in the pipe.  I've built a couple layers of floors above it, but that hasn't helped

I see a couple advantages...

Minor point: There are a freely available parsers for XML that might provide more efficient parsing, and could simplify his code. Granted, Raw file parsing peformance wouldn't likely be noticable. And I doubt Toady's had to touch his parsing code in years.

3. The real benefit would be that an XML version of the raws would be much more readable. Not only in structure, but also most text editors built for writing XML provide text formatting, that make it easy to identify tags, and values.

Awesome, it's gorgeous.

Hey probably stupid question but... why isn't Toady using XML for the RAWs?