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Well, duh. It's not like they can trade for food.

Wasn't there a story in here somewhere?

Hmm, now that there's going to be more messages and filtering (hopefully with zoom/pause options for everything) maybe they can be streamed to a side panel. It might be useful to get a running commentary on what's going on. Kind of your own personal DF novel.

Streamed:
McOne and McTwo have become romantically involved.
McLazy has stopped making beds, again, because he wants yet another drink, but not from the keg in his workshop.
The iron stores are down to ten.
McQuick has finished a sword. Her smith queue is empty.

Logged:
Shale 492, Mayor McCheese
Food stocks are sufficient for more than a winter, ore stocks are dropping low. McOne and McTwo have become romantically involved. The klingons have entered the neutral zone.

Or both, stream brief messages and log them for reference/posterity. I've always found making repetitive or random messages interesting to be a fun challenge.

I see all sorts of evil options for people to provide various filters/RAW files for arranging their logs (can you say Boatmurdered). Interesting message streams/logs could be a new player challenge... heavy modding might be a bit much, although the logs could be parsed elsewhere (like a Perl routine) then the perspective could even be changed by an ambitious user... I'll stop now.

Jamini might keep up on Ulogeshud... (We need a gen option to stop when the dwarves run out and generate refugees.)

The term vitamins can be anything, in fact it doesn't even need to be used outside of the raws. Documentation would just note that a varied diet is necessary to continual health.
The raws would call call them vitamins and have a list for each food stuff (RAW:AFGK BREW:FGJ COOK:AFGK) and the entities have a list of what they need (HEALTHY:ABCDFGHJK FULL_SPEED:ACDFGHK NOT_FAINTING:ABCDHJ). These two lists use the convenient alphabet notation that mocks real nutrition with a basic bit flag technique isn't really necessary to know since unless you make nothing but beer biscuits you're likely to be fine.
I had been looking at forts where nothing but plump helmets were being grown by people who thought it was too easy. Well, it adds a little depth there and doesn't make the early development harder on new and casual players.
Oh, and it could be modded to make elves need to eat sentients and zombies need brains.

What if children could automatically work in the family business? Depending on the civ's ethics, children automatically take on appropriate tasks of their parent's jobs or, if there aren't any or there are too many children, they can work with friends, or in an extreme even be fostered by a dwarf of a higher station.

And they made a very satisfying thump.

I still think making tower caps farmable would be a mistake.

I don't know how they commercially grow mushrooms now, much less 1000 years ago. But this is Dwarf Fortress and I could see environmental controls affecting the growth of a Tower Cap farm. Right now you only need to wet the floor. What if you had to keep wetting the floor over time? Or carry down enough dirt to make a proper field, maybe they only get to plump helmet size without it, good for charcoal but not much else...

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I'm good as long as things don't get freaky ... making elf hair shirts and stuff.

How's that freaky? Animal hair is a perfectly normal material for making cloth - wool, angora, etc.

Whoah, did you just imply that elves are animals?

Are you implying they are vegetables or minerals?

I'll step into this pyramid, and say, he is implying 'them' as an economic source.

I was thinking more of the way Nazi's made lampshades from human skin. Given that butchering traders is status quo for some...

I think we're getting sidetracked here. Rikkar has mandated...a comfy chair!