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Holy effin' shit. That stuff looks absolutely amazing. If it's really gonna be stuffed with evil beasties than it's basically just like the caverns except better looking, more fun and more easily accessible. I think I'm gonna find a nice room in the sewers underneath the capital city and make it into my secret hideout where I shall stuff all the treasure I loot.

Not sure if this belongs in the bug report sections considering that it doesn't seem to be a bug with the game itself. When I'm on the dwarf section of the embark screen, and press "v" to check a dorfs profile, the game goes all "Dwarf Fortress.exe has stopped working" and shuts down. This happened twice already, despite the fact that I've had two forts in this version which worked fine on embark. Both of the crashes  occurred when trying to embark on the same spot so maybe its because I'm trying to settle on a tiny, isolated volcano island or something. I'll try a different spot later, but I like this one and wanna know what's going on. Any ideas?

So, I was messing around and setting up a hospital (and a dwarf caravan arrived at that time). As soon as I defined the hospital zone, a bunch of dwarfs ran off to get supplies. I noticed they all ran outside, in the direction of the approaching caravan. Then, they came back along with the caravan, and each one was carrying a thing of cloth. The only possible explanation is that they tried to fill the hospital with supplies from the only available source. No further theft was observed. I guess I'll try to set up some sort of fake hospital and see if I can pull this off next year.

Got 3 questions:
1) My dogs killed a honey badger who wandered close to my fort, but my butcher refuses to touch the corpse. He is not busy, and trying to give an order via butcher shop gives a "needs unrotten nearby butcherable item" message. The corpse is not rotten. Is there some setting that I'm missing?
2)Deep metals, shallow metals...What does it mean? How deep is "deep" and how deep is "shallow". I need to know where to dig exploratory shafts. I think my fort had "deep" and I found silver around the first cavern (around lvl -40 I think). Is that where I should look?
3)There were no anvils available on embark. The dwarf caravan did not have any, but I ordered them. Will they bring them despite the fact that they don't seem to have them at all? Humans bring them too, right?

Just had this cool thing happen on a 250 year world. It went from Age of Myth into the Age of Legends and then back into the "Second Age of Myth". Didn't know this could happen. Ages are influenced by the number of mega and semi-megabeasts, right? Well, I turned up savagery to the max, so maybe a bunch of savage animals ate all the humans after they killed all the dragons or something.

So, I was playing some Genesis mod, and my steel dwarf was being the biggest badass ever, but then minotaurs happened. The first time I tried to kill one, it murdered both of my buddies and broke my shoulder , but I managed to one-shot it with a lucky strike to the head. Much later, I got a quest to kill another one. This one had an axe and crippled me with a single hit to the foot. I ran behind my buddies, hoping that they would cover me, but they got slaughtered in seconds. The minotaur then cornered me and mercilessly chopped me to pieces while I was unable to land a good hit on it.
So, how do I kill these bastards? Maybe I should have brought a bigger party (I only had 6 orcs the last time), but I don't know if it would worked very well in the tight corridors. I could have tried to sneak and throw things (my dude was a legendary thrower), but the minotaurs seem to always spot me as I'm coming around a corner. Maybe my dude just needed more skills.

P.S. How do the new materials in Genesis relate to each other. My guy had Black Steel equips, but how does it compare to Sun Gold or the other stuff?

My latest embark is in a temperate region and so I need to somehow save my water pools from freezing. Would it be sufficient to just dig an underground room and drain the water there, or do I have to make a reservoir with constructed walls and floors and stuff? On a related note, is it possible to dig upwards? I want to have my reservoir one level below the pool and I need some way to punch through the roof.

So, I decided to put five cage traps on my map in place where animals path through. Those five random traps have managed to catch a giant eagle (did it just randomly land into one, or something?), a giant jaguar, two tigermen and two gorillas. The tigermen have been tamed and are now chilling in my dining room, but the others are a problem. I've heard that the Dungeon Master is broken, so it is unlikely I would be able to train them. I though about dropping them into an arena for soldier training, but will the dwarfs be able to drag them there without letting them loose and getting mauled?