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Size certainly should play an important role in battle beyond just numbers. Toady has alluded to this when mentioning how groundhogs are currently capable of biting creatures anywhere, hopefully this will change.

The Giant throws you to the ground.
The Giant stomps on you.
Your body explodes in gore!

I'd rather see a more general handling of attacks in regards to size.

I mostly agree with you but being much much larger than your foe in combat would allow you to do things that would simply not be possible with someone of equal stature. An example being stomping on foes, if large enough it should damage the whole body. Currently vermin are edible and if your foe is small enough I don't see why they wouldn't be too. I'd like to see some attacks only present themselves if the size difference is great enough.

every sort of attack, not just wrestling, should be targetable.  Whether or not it hits the intended part of the body is a separate matter.  I should be able to try to hack off a giant's foot to knock him over, or shoot arrows at his face to blind him.

I'd love to be able to target body parts like this. It would add more strategy to fights like only wrestling currently does. Being able to chose to stab or slash with swords and being able to sneak up on people and slit their throats being advanced forms of targeting that are heavily context sensitive.

The best way to get water to flow through a previously edited tile is to get your dwarves to build a wall near them. This seems to reset things and get it working again.

As I wont be playing for a few days I think I'll leave updating the client until then too. It started at 2 minutes counted down a few seconds then started counting up and is now at 18:18 .

When my weekend rolls around again on Thursday I should be putting some time in. Not sure what I'll do but I want to join a settlement alongside other bay12ers.

Pity I missed the ragnarok but I had to eat.

Ostriches anyone? from what I hear they kill a fair number of people every year with their powerful kick. I don't know if I'd call them awesome, awkward maybe though.

Wow I'm glad I've found out about this game.

You could also google some file recovery software, I've not used any myself but I hear it can be quite effective. I'd imagine they cost money but a free trial is all you need for a few files.

The thing is, though, dwarves live underground.  The day/night cycle doesn't seem like it'd affect dwarves (other cool things, yes, but not dwarves), as they live underground.  It seems to me like the day/night shift system would develop naturally in medieval dwarven civilization.

Indeed but I'd imagine social reasons would keep the dwarves on similar timetables, missing parties and feasts because you sleep on the graveyard shift would be annoying for them given that they have little reason to work in their night. The same amount of dwarves will get the same amount of work done in the same amount of time regardless of when they sleep.

It might be annoying for the player though, snatchers and thieves would help a little and hopefully there might be other things to keep you busy while they sleep but it might not be worth the hassle.