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I'll try and donate 50 pounds. I've had some trouble with Paypal transactions in the past, but it should be okay now.

Ever since I got myself stuck in an embark situation without pick, stone, or axe, I've edited my embark profile to prevent that. No raw materials, no way of getting raw materials, not even a way of producing raw materials from nothing.

You have three wood and two animals no matter what happens. In most common biomes you can rely on fishing and herbalism/farming to bring in raw materials, and then maybe outfit one of your dwarves in leather and bone and give the local groundhogs a taste of dwarven military might. In some biomes you'll either die of thirst or angry skeletal monstrosties, true, but an empty wagon isn't necessarily a death sentence.

Where did you do this extra digging? If you never dug anywhere near the magma pump between obsidian-making sessions, then the only thing that would have changed was the magma supply. How many z-levels from the top of the pipe is your farm?

Several months ago I had the idea of building an engine in which all the water was at 7/7 so that it wouldn't try and path anywhere. It worked. But I didn't leave any plans except for a small sketch of one z-level, and now it won't work at all. If I power the whole thing via windmills, then the waterwheels spin but don't provide any power. There is also no flow anywhere in the system except in a 7/7 flooded room off to the side of the lowermost layer. This room was dug out after the initial failed system, and is not part of the design. Above that room is another 7/7 flooded room (yeah, I had a little pressure accident), which has no flow despite being connected via stairs to the room below.

The waterwheels have open space below all their tiles, and the pumps and the waterwheels are all connected. The water is dumped from above onto the level below the waterwheels, where it flows along and then down some stairs to be pumped back up.

This is a test fortress staffed by robo-dwarves and the main portion of the test has been completed, so extreme measures won't be a problem.

For example, a dwarf changed from male to female will still pursue the love of female dwarves.

Just to make absolutely sure -- since DC changes displayed gender and nothing else, does this mean marriage and pregnancy are also unaffected? I had an idea requiring two male dwarves in a relationship, and it'll be a mite awkward if one of them keeps popping out babies. This isn't an insurmountable problem, though, since military dwarves never marry. (I think, anyway.)

Can you go into the W7 equivalent of Control Panel --> System and see what system properties are listed? XP gives the make and speed of the CPU, I know that.

damnit

oh well - here i thought i had the perfect world

You can use the mechanism reaction with the world you have if you're willing to hijack an existing reaction. Remove the brackets from every line of the reaction but the initial [REACTION:[make stuff you don't ever make anyway]] one, and put the

[NAME:cast iron mechanisms]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:IRON]
[PRODUCT:100:1:TRAPPARTS:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:IRON]
[FUEL]

lines underneath that but before the next reaction. You don't need to replace the [SMELTER] and [FUEL] tags, but it makes it easier on the eyes if you want to flip between them.

You might be able to regenerate the site with the new reaction and the same parameters, but changing the reactions file seems to have a wide-reaching effect on the worldgen. I've modified existing reactions and regenned only to find that either the mountain features have spread themselves across my chosen local area, or the soil types have changed to something non-sand.

So if you set your elevation ranges to, say, 285-301, and then reduce the elevation variance, you can get lots of very small, very flat "mountains".

Reduce? I would have thought that increasing the variance would mix up the mountain and and non-mountain areas more, or does that do nothing but cause embarks to have the full range of z-levels? I usually limit mine to 295-301 and have high variance, and I don't remember seeing very many sites with half a dozen surface levels.