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Sadly, last time I saw either of those was ~4 years ago, they're quite likely not even online anymore.

The endless IQ test was from thespark.com, which now redirects you to a sparknotes site.

I got 129, which is alright for an online test and considering I haven't sat down and done any maths for several years (I'm 24). I'm shocked at how long I needed to think about things that I would have worked out as quickly as 2+2 ten years ago.

This is probably a stupid question, but have you tried 'k' ing over the room with the floodgate? Rocks block the view of water, and your floors are thick with them.

Is there a round patch of obsidian anywhere on the surface? That's a dead giveaway. If not, there's a trick to finding underground features. Go down to an undug layer and see what the depot access is like. There will be one 48x48 block (or two, if you have a magma pool as well, though that's pretty unlikely) that doesn't flash inaccessible. The pipe is there. Dig from the surface down through the middle of the block until you find it.

If you find that to be a bit of an exploit, exploratory shafts every 50 tiles (starting 25 tiles away from the map edges -- they're never right on an edge and they're quite large) will work fine. Since your map is completely flat, the pipe's probably near the surface.

Sure just assign them to live in different Burrows.

Burrows haven't been implemented yet.

Do dwarves need to be off-duty for a certain period of time before the bad thought stops accumulating, or would taking them off-duty for a few ticks once a season (since the game announces season changes, it's a handy timer) be enough to keep the duty-related thoughts to a low hum?

Adamantine is a [DEEP] metal, which makes it fortress-only.

there's another one that all sub-30 have that involves touching a tooth and feeling it's all weak and about to fall... It WILL fall.

I have never had a dream about my teeth, despite being slightly self-conscious about them (maybe I've had so many trips to the dentist that my subconscious feels it has nothing to add?). High tides are the recurring features in my most vivid and colourful dreams.

Still can't think of a good tile for adamantine ore...thinking of one of the veined ones, but I feel it should be something unique so it really pops.  Suggestions?  There are plenty of tile slots left, so I can still add things.

The Pts tile (158) isn't used for anything in vanilla, though you might have to cut off a little of the curve of the P to make it properly strandlike.

Very nice work on the tileset, though I wouldn't use it myself for regular play (my laptop's old and doesn't support anything higher than 1024x768, and 64x48 is too few tiles for me). I'd still keep it around for screenshots though. The ballista especially is just plain gorgeous.

Some planning beforehand could cover the bulk of the barracks area with an atom smasher, though you can't have it entirely covered because you can't build a bridge and a weapon/armor rack in the same square.

Just did a quick test and found that soldiers will initiate sparring sessions if you put a weapon rack in an alcove behind a statue. If you size the room before placing the statue, it won't act as a wall the way statues usually do.

Does building the weapon rack behind the raising end bridge not work?