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Feature suggestion: make it actually impossible to place a workshop build order if there is no way out afterwards.
(In practice such a check might be a bit expensive, I dunno, but it would be nice to avoid this kind of newbie confusion.)

Oh, on another side-side note...in the main entrance hallway, there is a corpse of one of the Original Seven. It's still there, doesn't rot and no one will clean it up. I've checked, it's not forbidden. It is marked for dumping and there is a 'g'arbage dump zone.

Dead dwarves go into graveyard stockpiles, not garbage.

Quote from: MMad on September 23, 2008, 07:41:42 pm

Never really noticed before (I hate managing the military and try to avoid it in general) but this does sound like an important missing feature or unintended consequence, or perhaps even a bug.

thats what i said with the first line

Quite. :p Brevity was never my strongest skill.

I haven't built any floors with the resizable square thingy so I could be way off - but perhaps the problem is that the squares in the middle aren't connected to anything (hanging in mid-air, as they are) and therefor the entire thing fails?

After all, from how I understand it the uhkm thingies only facilitate a bunch of construction orders at once - and they're built individually and can be cancelled individually - so you don't actually order the construction of a square as a whole. So the floor pieces in the middle cannot be built, and therefore the whole square can't be built.

Does that seem sensible? I dunno if it's actually correct, but it makes sense to me...

I support the gendering of names and clothing (would give something for the "Loves to defy convention" personality to do), but I would argue against stat-nerfing and the implementation of gender roles. Basically because it would get really annoying and, since they're dwarfs, it's got no basis in reality.
As for the Gender Species Difference thing; most aesthetic distinctions need to wait for whatever bloat or core handles that; now all Toady could do is make them different creatures, which brings it's own problems.

Seconded again (Thirded? :p).

Differenting names would be useful; differentiating stats or preferences would just add one more layer of annoying complexity that would mess up your plans. More importantly though, IMO one of the really cool thing about DF style dwarves is how bitchin' hardcore warriors the females can be. Go gender equality!

However, even though I don't like the idea of harsh limitations on the player races (or at least not on dwarves), it would make a lot of cool sense to make it possible for the two sexes of any species to behave very differently though. Especially for randomly generated races and stuff like that.

I've wanted to do this exact thing before, placing Skull Totems as, well, totems outside my fortress.

The thing is, the ashy surprise came before the first fire, and none of the fires completely covered the whole map. I suppose I could have just missed an epic burning, I am not very observant.

The idea of a giant forest fire enveloping the entire local area and noone in the fortress noticing until several days later is hilarious.