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Okay, I should have put a 'probably' in there.

Anyway, soapmaker's raw. I'll do the whole thing just for completeness.
[BUILDING_WORKSHOP:SOAP_MAKER]
[NAME:Soap Maker's Workshop]
What the game knows it as, plus what the game displays it as.

[NAME_COLOR:7:0:1]
Colour of the 'Soap Maker's Workshop' text given above. DF uses three numbers to denote colour: foreground; background; brightness of foreground. The first two go from 0 to 7, and the last one toggles the brightness of the foreground colour. The background colour is always considered 0 (except when you feed it different numbers; see the Color page on the wiki for more).

[DIM:3:3]
[WORK_LOCATION:2:2]
[BUILD_LABOR:SOAP_MAKER]
[BUILD_KEY:CUSTOM_SHIFT_S]
Workshop dimension is 3x3, dwarf stands two squares left and two down when working, workshop is built by a soapmaker and can be built directly from the workshop menu by pressing 'S'.

[BLOCK:1:0:0:1]
[BLOCK:2:0:0:1]
[BLOCK:3:0:0:0]
Blocking status of tiles on row:number 1:passable:passable:impassable

And so on. Once built, this particular 3x3 workshop will be walkable except for the rightmost and upper-right tile. If you're making a 5x5 workshop, then you need to go up to [BLOCK:5:0:0:0:0:0]. Not sure what happens if you don't tell the game the passable/impassable status of every tile in the workshop.

[TILE:0:1:' ':' ':150]
[TILE:0:2:' ':' ':'/']
[TILE:0:3:'-':' ':' ']
[COLOR:0:1:0:0:0:0:0:0:6:0:0]
[COLOR:0:2:0:0:0:0:0:0:6:0:0]
[COLOR:0:3:6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0]
Tile symbol:building stage 0 (waiting for construction):row number 1:specify space:specify space:refer to tile 150 on character grid (is û in vanilla, may be a graphic of a bucket in other tilesets)
Tile symbol:building stage 0 (waiting for construction):row number 2:specify space:specify space:specify forward slash
Tile symbol:building stage 0 (waiting for construction):row number 3:specify dash:specify space:specify space
Tile colour:building stage 0 (waiting for construction):row number 1:[black on black]:[black on black]:[brown on black]
Tile colour:building stage 0 (waiting for construction):row number 2:[black on black]:[black on black]:[brown on black]
Tile colour:building stage 0 (waiting for construction):row number 3:[brown on black]:[black on black]:[black on black]

So once that's done, you end up with a brown bucket in the upper right, a brown - on the lower left, and a brown / on the rightmost tile. Specifying a character doesn't necessarily mean you'll get that character. If your tileset replaces [ with a graphic of some clothing, then that's what will be displayed. Putting the character in directly is quicker and easier to identify (how many people would know off the top of their heads what tile 150 is?), and if you're using the True Type option with a graphic tileset you might get the [ instead of the graphic. Maybe.

[TILE:1:1:' ':' ':'=']
[TILE:1:2:'-':' ':8]
[TILE:1:3:' ':' ':150]
[COLOR:1:1:0:0:0:0:0:0:6:0:0]
[COLOR:1:2:6:0:0:0:0:0:6:0:0]
[COLOR:1:3:0:0:0:0:0:0:6:0:0]
Moving on to stage 1, 'partially constructed'. This time you get a brown - on the left, a brown bucket in the bottom corner, a brown container-thing on the right, and a brown = in the top corner.

[TILE:2:1:'-':' ':8]
[TILE:2:2:' ':' ':8]
[TILE:2:3:' ':150:' ']
[COLOR:2:1:6:0:0:0:0:0:6:0:0]
[COLOR:2:2:0:0:0:0:0:0:6:0:0]
[COLOR:2:3:0:0:0:6:0:0:0:0:0]
Stage 2, 'construction nearly done'. Nothing of interest.

[TILE:3:1:150:' ':8]
[TILE:3:2:' ':' ':8]
[TILE:3:3:' ':240:' ']
[COLOR:3:1:6:0:0:0:0:0:6:7:0]
[COLOR:3:2:0:0:0:0:0:0:6:7:0]
[COLOR:3:3:0:0:0:7:0:1:0:0:0]
Stage 3, ready for use. The soap tile at the bottom and the container-things* on the right might both seem to have white foregrounds when viewed in-game, but the container tile is done in negative for some reason. Maybe it has to do with the 'dark backgrounds only' limitation.

*Yeah, I know, but I'm still calling them container-things to be safely non-specific.

[BUILD_ITEM:1:BUCKET:NONE:NONE:NONE][EMPTY][CAN_USE_ARTIFACT]
[BUILD_ITEM:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][BUILDMAT][WORTHLESS_STONE_ONLY][CAN_USE_ARTIFACT]
Build with bucket, which is empty and can be an artifact.
Build with anything you like, as long as it's registered as a building material and isn't currently an economic stone. Can be an artifact (though I can't think what artifact would qualify here).

You know how when you load a game it has stuff like, say, region4 underneath it? That's the folder that has the raws for that particular save. To get to it you go: DF folder / data / save / region4. Then you go into the raw folder and all the text files are there.

KNOWN ISSUES:

"Smelt raw mithril ore" and "make low-grade mithril bars" are the same thing.  .... "smelt raw mithril ore" seems to be hardcoded to the [METAL_ORE:MITHRIL_LOW_GRADE:100] tag.

You can get rid of the metal ore tag altogether. What it does is allow the game to decide whether a given civ can smelt an ore (based on its metal tags), and since you're doing this manually there's no need to let the game do it as well.

If the cage is right next to the chain, sometime it works. Have some cage traps ready if it doesn't, and make sure the dwarf you send in to do the chaining is well-armoured.

Er, masterwork dye is worth 240 (unless it's redroot) - remember, masterwork value is base value times 12, not 6.

Oh yeah, my bad, I've always had a blind spot for basic maths. Trigonometry? Can do. Four times two? That is totally six.

I remember that when I attempted this in 40d with a race of domesticated creatures who could speak, my dwarves buried them upon their deaths, and even buried roasts made from their meat in the coffins.

These aren't separate creatures, these are a caste of dwarves (if the order matters at all, it's the male caste that are butcherable. It's not necessary at the moment since there are no kids around, but there are problems reported with unintelligent creatures and intelligent offspring), so yeah, it's new for .31. Being dwarves, they will also rise from the dead if you don't put down a slab for them. Not sure if they'd get their remains or roasts put in a coffin, but they're supposed to be eaten, not buried, so no coffins for them.

Soap is a pretty good way to use dwarves. I set all physical attributes to 1000 or 100 for other testing reasons, and dwarves are quite fatty for being so small.

What.

How.

See a couple of posts above. Moving the [INTELLIGENT] tag out of the general creature definition and into specific castes leaves the castes without the tag in a sort of limbo state. Just doing this means the untagged caste can't learn or be butchered from the Animals screen (since they lack the pet tag), but you can insert the tags manually. Stay away from [CAN_SPEAK], it restores the labour menu and takes them off the Animals screen. Maybe you could butcher dead dwarves because of ethics, but I haven't tried that yet. Note that making them butcherable does not make them edible. I forget which combination of tags caused this, but if dwarves don't move the butchery items to the meat pile you need to fool around with the raws some more.