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Hmm it seems that things are actually quite different. The elves have almost no jobs available to them, except for healthcare related stuff, mining, stoneworking and hauling. It seems that with the listed jobs, I won't be able to produce food, or in fact, anything else. I did however bring a fisherman and fish cleaner and both seem willing to do their jobs even though they're not listed in the job menu, I will have to keep those two alive if I want to survive here, and hope that migrants will bring more usefull Elves.

Maybe elves should have some additional jobs available to them, like milking and cheesemaking, or other stuff that is in line with their nature friendly lifestyles. Anyhow this will be interesting...

Elves are actually marked as Civ Controllable. So it's entirely possible there is no dwarven civ in your world.

Ah that would explain a lot. Also, I was wrong about them needing alcohol, I just doublechecked, and apparently they don't. My elven herbalist however prefers to eat raccoon, and turtles. Ofcourse I have long suspected the elves of being hypocritical liars, so this comes as no surprise.
I guess I'll be starting an elven fortress then :-). Will this be different in any way from a dwarven fortress except for the inhabitants, or are there specific restrictions and additions?

Nothing really. It's just that large numbers of objects like mined stone, or coins (if used in economy) slow down the game, especially for people on slower machines. Older complex fortresses like Halltraded already suffer from speed issues, so it's wise to try and keep the number of these items as low as possible. having 10.000 stones, or coins lying around can slow down a fortress to a crawl, so it's good practice to keep those numbers as low as possible. Having some high quality items produced by the economy for trading purposes is no problem however, it should also be noted that an economy does not need coins to run, in fact it probably runs better without them.

I've added you to the list.

So the elves, who we are at war with send us an undead copy of a former leader, who is moslty known for sealing himself off in a personal villa while ignoring the needs of the rest of the fortress. Now,  I follower of Datan, am to trust this...
* spots the approaching royal guard*
errr. I meant to say "all hail our zombie overlord!"

Ot: It seems that while we currently have no alcohol, none of the dwarves I checked appear to have lack of alcohol related bad thoughts, so it seems alcohol is legal again! (huray!).

The coins may be hard to destroy, I don't think dwarves will pick up or dump owned items in 40d (or do they?) Please don't mint any more of them.

Ah, yes, that's where things must have gone wrong  . I couldn't help it however, iron was in the high priests personal preferences (I just didn't have enough native gold lying around)


Sometimes I think I'm taking this "play in character" thing to seriously.

I have removed you elf problem, I think. I fiddled with DC and removed him from existence. I will upload the save in a moment.

I have the save here: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3434

Thanks!