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Well, not so much wanted to as actually did... joined the Wiki and sent in my PM yesterday.

If that doesn't help, it may be a bug and you may also want to try drafting and undrafting him. To quote the wiki:

This process is a bit buggy -- if the mayor is interrupted during the meeting, the civilian will sometimes get stuck in the "Conduct Meeting" labour. Drafting and undrafting the civilian might help snap them out of it.

(They can get stuck in "Attend Meeting" too. My mayor was stuck that way for half a season once before I hit the wiki for help.)

My fort was going really well, until five of my warriors died in a goblin siege. I'd left them off-duty so much that they'd acquired lots of friends, and, well... I'd had 130 dwarves before the goblins came in late autumn. By the time spring came around and some new nobles immigrated in, I was down to 15, although fortunately it stabilized there.

One of the survivors was a dwarf child who went into a fell mood, killed his own father, made a leather skirt out of his father's remains, and remained ecstatic for the rest of the spiral. He kept getting into fights with tantruming adults and pulping them. As soon as he's grown up, he's getting recruited.

I don't generally use custom names, but I do always have a few Nurses, dwarves with only health care enabled.

Also, with my latest fort, once my expedition leader/bookkeeper/miner reached Legendary for both bookkeeping and mining, I decided her badass level and founder status meant she deserved a custom title and named her Mother of [Fortress]. She also got the best room and tomb in the fortress--the latter came in handy when she eventually berserked during a tantrum spiral and killed seven dwarves and six war dogs, unarmed and unarmored, before going down.

Death, mostly. The more death, the stronger the messages become. I recently lost 115 dwarves in a single year and, that autumn, got "Nobody even considered making the journey to such a cursed death-trap this season."

I first learned about it when someone posted to another forum I was on with a class assignment--she'd had to write a clear beginner's guide for a computer application, and had picked DF. She wanted people who'd never tried the game before to start using the guide, to see how good it was. This was back in the 2D days, so I plunged in and was immediately hooked by the concept of farming underground. >_> Yeah, that's what did it for me.

"Oh, awesome, I can farm underground! And there are trees along that river? I can be COMPLETELY SELF-CONTAINED!"

(Only later, when I'd lost two wood-cutters, did I realize it would be easier NOT to be. The same motive is why I'm trying to build a tree-farm in my current 3D fort, though. I like never having to go outside.)

Because I had that guide (which was, in fact, quite good), I did not fail at my first fort. I just lost it when that computer died. By the time I finally got around to downloading DF on my new computer, it was into the 3D version. The concept of Z-levels threw me for at least a month before I got the hang of it.

I'd like the ability to mass-select in lists.

That way I could highlight a bunch of dwarves at once and then activate them, or a bunch of <narrow iron low boots> and then melt them. It'd be especially handy with the trading screen, so I don't have to go through all the left-over goblin clothing one by one, hitting enter each time, to get rid of all the useless junk my siegers leave behind for me.

To travel between Z-levels, you need a down staircase and an up staircase adjacent to each other - that is, the down staircase must be above the up staircase.

I see now! This was my problem--I was building them next to each other, not above/below each other. Thank you!

*trots off to dig a second floor*