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I've encountered the sparring with crossbow bug before, but I haven't been able to reproduce it.

Also, I've seen soldiers get "stuck" when attempting to pick up gear. It'll fix itself in time however. Once the pickup equipment job is interrupted, such as having to eat/drink/sleep, the soldier will go back and do the job again, and it almost always works.

More to the point, I think healing for non-dorfs is simply broken. I've had dogs running around with hurt tails for years. Lizardmen and antmen with wounds that never heal, and so on and so forth.

Rain is indeed useful in 39e.

No, this could be very bad. It removes a lot of control from the player, and potentially could be disastrous.

What happens if all of your dorfs are roughly equally skilled, and then all of your farmers decide to join the military? Oops. No food. What if your forge dorfs all join up? Hope you didn't need any more weapons/armor!

The current system with manually recruiting seems to work well enough.

Another way to increase their stats is to create a very tiny meeting zone. Have all of your dorfs socialize with each other, thus working on many skills all at the same time. Their stats will skyrocket.

The downside is that tantrums are more likely should a few dorfs die, but tantrums can be so fun.

I've love a built in template to assign jobs to dorfs, such as getting a new immigrant wave.

I usually only have a few preset jobs for each "caste" of dorf.

Peon -- butcher, tanner, farmer, miller, brewer, wood burner, furnace operator, plant gatherer, woodcutter, cook
Builder -- mining, masonry, architecture, stone detailing
Craftsdorf -- carpentry, leatherworking, stone/wood/bonecrafting, glass making, crossbow making

Then I'll have soldiers and nobles. My broker/sherrif/bookkeeper is also my main metal smith who works all four metal jobs. He's a noble, so he's immune to the executioner, same with the dungeon keeper. All immigrant stoneworkers and metal guys will be drafted right away. If they get a fey mood and become a legendary mason/engraver/metal worker, they get spared military service to churn out masterwork steel plate or weapons.

Its a real pain to adjust the jobs of every single immigrant, and if for some reason I miss the immigrant wave, such as immigrants arrive at the same time as a siege or I'm dealing with some other crisis, trying to sort out who's an immigrant and who's not when they've mixed into the general population can be horrendous.

A way to assign preset job list would be awesome.

I don't have much hope for it when it mentions the producers developed Children of the Nile, Caesar IV and SimCity Societies. These games weren't as good as their earlier games.

Yup, Tilted Mill does very uneven games. They've done a few good games, but also a bunch of very lame games. Not the best studio in the world, but I give them props for at least attempting a game in this genre.

A central 4x4 stairway with a vertical fortress design makes for a good, efficient fort.

However if you want to be excessively efficient at the expense of all else, simply designate the entire map to have up/down stairs dug, thus dorfs can walk from any place on the map to any other place using straight lines, but such a thing will be greatly lacking in aesthetics.

I tend to try to build my fort on a single level. Storage is done on different Z levels as it doesn't need any maintenance, usually just a simple stairway below the workshops, but everything else is all on the same screen for easy management.