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I might be wrong about this, but don't werecritters arrive with a message box popup like titans and FBs? Can they sneak into your fort like vamps?

From Toady's post on the front page...

wall/floodgate/etc. builders often make more reasonable decisions about where to stand to avoid walling themselves in

Does that mean I will no longer have to resort to silly tricks like designating and suspending walls to get the dorfs to stay on the right side?
*sigh* I'm gonna miss those times. (Well, not really...)

I've tried setting wait_period to 1 and even 0. I still have a ridiculously long cooldown. In fact, I'm not sure it made any difference. Is it because I'm trying it in arena mode?

Started new peasant adventurer, decided to solo raid a bandit camp with only proficient in shield user and novice in swimming. Needless to say, expected a merciless slaughter of my poor adventurer with only a single copper sword and dagger to his name.

I decided to chuck whatever I could at the legendary axeman bandit leader to at least reduce the slaughter. Deciding to use the best first, I chuck my large copper dagger...

"The spinning large copper dagger strikes the overlord in the head, tearing the muscle, pushing the skull through the brain and tearing the brain!"

He went on to be one of my most successful by not dying in the first fifteen minutes.

Pretty much the exact same thing happened to me. Was fighting with a bandit lasher, then noticed the leader (also a lasher) approaching.  Tossed the dagger at him (had no throwing skill) and got him in the head.
I noticed that dagger is actually a very deadly throwing weapon. I have dabbling throwing, but just about every time, I manage to cripple something with it by shattering bones or cutting nerves.

Guys, you are missing the most important question! Would a zombie brain try to eat itself?

I finally managed to get a vampire adventurer and so far things have been pretty good, I guess. But I'm a little confused about how much blood I need to drink. With normal food/drinking, you get a limit of 3 'noms' before you have to fast-travel, right? With blood, I can feed from a single creature dozens of times repeatedly and it doesn't even seem to affect them (they die from suffocation due to me strangling them unconscious or they bleed out from wounds I inflicted earlier). The only time I can drain anything dry is when I feed on them while I'm 'Thirsty' (and even then, it only works on small creatures or those who already lost some blood). So, does bloodsucking only work when I'm thirsty, or is there like a hidden hunger meter that fills up every time I drink someone. (and if there is, is there a limit on how much it can fill up?) 

The other day, I ordered my miner to breach a magma pipe for my forges. Expecting it to slowly seep out and allow the dwarf time for escape, I was quite surprised when it rushed out, filling the channel almost instantly and clouding the area in magma mist. Needless to say, the miner didn't make it. Later, I got an announcement that he has been missing for a week, but since his body and all his belongings were consumed by Armok's fiery rock-blood, it wasn't found, so I guess he's not officially dead yet. It won't let my engrave him a slab, so is there any way to declare him s dead, so it lets me engrave one?