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This does work, however stray tame animals cannot be butchered. When they explode they do generate a lot more bones than a simple corpse would generate, as every splattered body part will decay into a single bone, thus this is great if you plan on decorating everything with bones.

But they won't butcher the corpses.

Dwarven pathfinding to goblins is a bit broken. If there is not a clear and direct path to the target while they're trying to chase the goblin, they get stuck. This even happens if there is a path around the channel that is clear but its too far away.

Put them on stay close to station so they don't get stuck trying to chase unreachable goblins.

My cats go beyond just opening doors themselves if they are outside the house and the front door is shut they knock on by headbutting it until you open it.

My cats let me know if they want in by meowing or pawing at the window. The door is on the other side of the building however, so they seem me leave the room to head to the door, but they know what I'm doing in the house, as they walk to the door at just the right time to reach it at the same time I reach the door. They can also track my movement in the house by looking at the lights on in various windows at night.

Quote from: Tormy on October 09, 2008, 11:36:10 am

Quote from: PTTG?? on October 06, 2008, 11:36:19 pm

That explains my (RL) cats perfectly... They just think I'm starving.

Are you serious that your cats bring the stuff what they catch to you? I thought that this is not possible, considering that the cat is a very dumb animal.  I always learn something new! 

What, are you serious? Cats are pretty smart. It's very common for them to catch birds and mice and things and leave them on your doorstep/in your shoe/on your face as you're sleeping. It's considered a "gift".

When the cat sees you leave for the day and come back with food for them, they think you were out hunting and then brought back some extra food for them to eat. No, they don't understand food processing and stores and the Friskies company, all they know is that you leave for most of the day and when you come back, you fill up their food bowls.

So when they go out hunting and catch something, they're returning the favor by bringing it to you.

By the way, is it me or do people sparring with blunt weapons cause FAR fewer major injuries? I had a squad of hammerdwarves go all the way to champion status sparring each other, but when the axedwarves tried it, about halfway there two of the three had spinal injuries.

They cause just as many injuries, but blunt weapons rarely damage internal organs, whereas slashing or piercing weapons can easily skewer all the internal organs in one hit. Blunt weapon injuries are just far more survivable. Rather than lopping off limbs, its just a broken leg which will heal.

You can easily limit how many barrels are used for food by simply limiting the food stockpile size.

For example, I use a 5x5 stockpile for plump helmets. Once that is full, all extra plump helmets simply rot in the field. Similar story for other crops. There's really no reason to have tens of thousands of plump helmets or pig tails laying around. All other barrels are then available for booze.

Yes, but it would generate little mist and be prone to flooding.

The thing about waterfalls is that you want to make water pressure work for you. Thus, having the reservoir be a single Z level below your dining hall won't work. The room will flood. Instead, have a deep reservoir even if its not completely full, such that water falls a few levels before hitting the floor. In this model, you can build a single spire in the middle of the waterfall. Dig a 3x3 pit for the water to fall into. In the center, you'll want a floor at the level of your dining hall, with 1 square of empty space between it and the area the dwarves will walk on. Above that floor, have the single square be the source of the falling water.

It will take several pumps to get the water up from the reservoir before it'll fall, but the act of it hitting that floor should produce ample mist without it flooding the room, because it will have several Z levels to fall before it begins to pile up, and liquids can pile up faster than they can move horizontally. With several levels, the closer the water gets to the rim the faster it will move horizontally, thus preventing it from flooding the room.