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You can select individual items from the stocks screen (z).
Might require a good Bookkeeper. (If you dont got a good bookkeeper, make you one - give him a small office and require high precision, won't take long till he reached the required precision (and turned legendary in process)).

Note - make sure your turtles are not cooked.
Lobster work as well.

PS.: I think bone only vanish outdoor. Indoor stockpiles should be safe.

If you can't / don't want to make his rooms bigger you will have to up the quiality (value) of the furniture.
A Artifact bed can do wonders... But can really be anything you got... Mechanisms (traps/levers)... Furniture... - if you got a artifact floodgate, stick it in there... (Just arrange tastefully - tho this is for your eye, not for his ). Build a Forge in there if you got a Golden Anvil  ...

Could also try use ridiculously expensive materials for these statues (and the rest of the furniture)...

So i drafted a few Dwarves, gave them armor... they dropped they old XX(Crappy Socks)XX in the stockpile...
While it seems not to interfere with the stockpile operation it still hugely annoys me...
I have been using "hide"... But i would really like to get rid of that crap...

I know the stuff can't be dumped...
Tried giving the Dwarves Cabinets and Coffers in the rooms, hoping they would collect the stuff and store it there... Didn't work.

Any suggestions how to deal with this ?

What font are you using ?

[img]neither had anything of interest, locked them in and flooded it a bit then the elves went berserk, maybe because of the massive pile of wood.

Or maybe it's because them beeing locked in a room with a bunch of stinking Gobbos and flooded to death 

In my experience elves are quite tolerant - they might forget about the accident and send a new caravan next year...
Try do it with humans. Bonus  -Points if you get the Guild Representative.

You get Gobln Caravans ? What goods they got ?
And what font are you using ?


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I wonder how a Pump-Opera does sound like.
Interesting insight in Dwarven Cultue and music btw.

Well... This is indeed a slight problem...

But BTW... If you only want to chain animals as spotters any animal will do... So if you have other breeding animals... Use they offspring instead.
Aligators for example. Chained watch-aligators in your forts entrance do look hilareaous.

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So far i never had the courage to try cats...
Does someone know:
Will chained cats become pets ?

If not they might be the best choice - they are available in unlimited numbers, and will also catch all vermin trying to snek inside...

Most of the time the working dogs you have (the 3 Chained spotters + maybe hinting / war dogs for dwarves working outside) produce enought offspring... The offspring i stuck in a cage untill i need them...

Chaining works for me.
I do use 3 dogs for a 3 wide corridor however... (You need at least two if you chain, to allways get 100% coverage)

A interesting - somehow related here - idea for a megaproject would be to make a lot of booze.
Like in enought to fill the fort with booze barrels.
Lit the fuse, run away.

What is your definition of "Successful Fort" here ?
Not having population, not trading, not producing nor exporting any meaningful goods...There is not much left to measure success by.

I would suggest droping at least the "One Dwarf" restriction.
Maybe also allowing trading with other Dwarves (While still killing the others).
Dwell overground in the said spooky biome.
Should give you a challenging, themed fort.