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I would like to see bonemeal as a fertilizer and possible food substrate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonemeal

In olden times, it was used as a calcium supplement, and it took us until the 1980's to realize how bad an idea that was... so for dwarven times, it'd fit perfectly.

That, and I would love to grind up goblin bones to make my bread.

As far as ground up stone goes, I'd say graphite would be a prime candidate, and colored stones could be ground for dyes.

Build a tower which has permeating hollow 3x3 walls; the hollow is where the magma goes.

Mine out a lake around the tower and fill it with water.

Set up booze/magma bombs in order to start wildfires on command.

I started up a world with my slightly tweaked ones - upon checking out the world history map, I found one Orcish empire which contained 18 Human ruins.

Reading their history, they are utterly horrible. Hundreds of animal enemies, an unfathomable gloat of murdered and abused corpses, and one warlord who ruled for eighty-seven years, barely topping the eighty-two year rule of the founding demon empress.

Truly, these are worthy foes.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/exitjmouse/misc2/Yukkuri_Dance.gif

Odd taste. Was expecting "durr hurr porns".

Trappers/cats to stop the cave spiders from producing more webs.

TRappers would be better so you can release them later.

What is the .gif, dare I ask?

I've been looking in RAW files and the only distinguishing trait of Ants is the [VERMIN_SOILCOLONY] tag; since ants are not visible, and there is no [VERMIN_NOROAM] tag to make them invisible, I assume that [VERMIN_SOILCOLONY] implies invisibility.

A shame, as having hornet nests and the like would be spectacular.

I really ought to stop posting in my own thread, but...

After adding the [CURIOUSBEAST_ITEM] tag and changing their body type back to the one-piece-with-many-chunks configuration, the oozes still retain their relatively cowardly behavior. One of them stole some fish I had embarked with and made a beeline for the edge of the map (slowly, granted), while the others wandered around critically wounding my pets and not drinking my booze. Perhaps my organs-for-eating theory wasn't too far off; barring that, re-adding the secondary mouth part.

Hilariously, also, one of the oozes had all of its Chunks ripped off and its Core mangled by a dog; shortly thereafter, however, it healed up and started moving again. A pack of five amateur wrestlers, a miner and a woodcutter, however, managed to kill all of them with no casualties.

Having an attack whose only damage type is [BURN] seems to make them mangle and injure only, but never kill; this may need to be remedied by changing the type to SLASH or BLUDGEON. On the other hand, some would argue that immense crippling is a fate worse than death, so if the damage counter was increased immensely...

I'm not sure if there is any way around the inherent cowardice of the [CURIOUSBEAST] tags, so this may end up being something of a failed attempt; however, I have yet to see what happens when I bait them with constructions to destroy.