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"What do all those marks mean?"

This is a question I've gotten a few times, in regards to the shoulder patches and other paraphernalia that's velcroed or jabbed onto my uniform.

I went through the standard procedure, showing off my battalion patch, my brigade patch, my company stripe and the little shiny dingle-dangles I get on my fancy uniform.

He nodded and gave contented mewing sounds to my answers, listening intently.  When I was finished, he pointed and asked.

"And that?  Is that where you're stationed?"

"...That's my name."

As my wife's favourite stand-up comedian would put it, "there's yer sign."

Just as an aside, whether or not projectiles break on impact with the ground might be related to their velocity. I've yet to see one of my modded-in bullets hit the ground in a useable form, for example.

A hypothermia mechanic would have to be added. But I think that adding hot drinks would be a good addition, but dwarves don't seem to have much interest in drink non-alcoholic beverages, I guess it could be a supplement, or they might just all drink Irish Coffee!

Everyone preferred beer or wine to water in those days, as it was less likely to make you shit uncontrollably until you died of dehydration, but even back then it was known that excessive alcohol consumption wasn't a brilliant idea either. Beer and wine are also rather time-consumping and complicated to make compared to coffee or tea, which require only boiling water and preferably some way of filtering the leaves or grounds out of whatever you're serving the beverage in. Lastly, there are plans to expand religious affiliations to include forbidding certain foodstuffs; it's not unlikely that alcoholic beverages will be included in that.

Doing it yourself stacks quality modifiers in your favor, which is where the big bucks are.

True, but my experience so far has been that farming is so manpower-intensive that a fortress that was completely self-sufficient for cloth would have very little scope for doing anything but farming, weaving and dressmaking. An agrarian-focused fortress could be an interesting experiment, but not perhaps everyone's cup of tea.

At least one pal of mine after decided I was insane after he showed me some of his carp-fishing pictures and I burst out laughing.

I'm also much the same, though I feel a strong duty of care towards my dwarves and try very hard to keep them alive. I do mod quite extensively, however, with the Flora and Fauna mod and a load of tweaks to entity_default as well as what can be found in my sig.

Peasant:

Crossbow, leather quiver. They stand behind fortifications shooting at stuff and occasionally getting shot at. They take casualties more regularly than my melee dwarves despite never engaging in actual combat...

Might want to give them some leftover goblin armour, or the stuff your newest armourer knocks out while he's learning the trade. A breastplate and helm is more than enough if they're only taking ranged fire, as hits to a limb won't kill except from bleeding out or infection.