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I am really not sure how big of a problem this is, but two external utilities (Stonesense And Dwarf Therapist 0.4.2) See a dwarf that does not exist.

He is the child Cerol Astoddodok according to Dwarf Therepist.  I found him next to a boulder in stonesense, but inside dwarf fortress he is not there.  He also is not in the units list or anywhere I can find.  (Including the deceased units.)

I have tried saving and reloading, but he still shows up.

I have a save of it in case anyone wants to see it.

* edit: found him in the game log

A kidnapper has made off with the Child Cerol Astoddod˘k!

Must have missed that as a tantrum spiral was taking my population from 157 to 18.

I am having problems getting my haulers to move barrels, and buckets to my furniture stockpiles.

I am not 100% sure the fault lies with the stockpile perhaps I had too many jobs or whatever.. but Just letting who ever know that for whatever reason my dwarves are not hauling buckets or barrels around.. they will however use them all for jobs and such still. 

Come to think of it.. I am also having the problem with sand bags... They are filling the sand bags and leaving them rather than hauling them to my stockpile that has sand bags accepted.

I have thought about the time scales and here are the ideas I came up with. I know these changes may not be universally popular but I really think they would add to the game.

#1.  Cut the number of days in a month to 7.  *dont go crazy yet, let me finish

#2 Expand the length of a day by 3x. * so months would be aproximatly 21 of their current days long

#3 Keep dwarf movement speed the same as it is, but make most tasks 3x slower except eating and drinking.

#4 Slightly reduce food, drink and sleep requirements

#5 reduce a year by 4 months removing one from every season

I know this probably has a couple minor flaws in it but it starts to adress some of the timing issues inside of a fortress.

This addresses the speed at which craftsmen gain levels.  With their work slowed they will take 3x longer to reach legendary, yet material costs remain unchanged.

This addresses the fact children often have ZERO bearing on a fortress other than  they get in the way,  With year length reduced, some children may actually reach adulthood.

This addresses the parties going on through the year problem.   Parties will now take comparatively 1/3rd the amount of manufacturing time away (Because the manufacturing is slowed down), and will last hopefully only a couple days.

This addresses the hauling takes too much time comparatively issue.   Hauling will now be significantly less of a crafsmans time, and will be much more realistic.

This addresses the efficiency means everything problem.  With Dwarves comparatively walking much faster now, fortress can be a little less efficient and be more designed ascetically and still function.  You don't need to stack bedrooms on the dining hall on the booze stockpile.  They now have time to walk to each without it killing productivity so bad.

This addresses the extreme tunneling speed of miners problem.  Miners will now not be able to mine quite so much, so hauling blocks and such away will be a little more in balance.

This addresses a single craftsman can turn out bucketfuls of anything.  Well he still can but he will only be able to do 1/3rd as much.. Maybe you just might need two stone carvers to make stone trinkets to buy out a caravan... probably not but it would be a little closer to requiring 2.

This addresses the fact it takes days for a dwarf/caravan/siege to move across the map.  Should help make the game a little more realistic.

Surprisingly I believe this may even also address the lag issue.   With more dwarves inside their jobs and less pathing around it should make the game run better.. maybe up to 3x faster.


Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Just a very quick idea for a tweak.  When we enter the d-b menu to claim/melt/forbid items, can vomit and blood be hidden?
  While its not a massive problem its a little annoying because they are the same colors as the marked item overlay.

* or I suppose maybe just changing the marking colors would work as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

I know people have talked about this before, but I was unable to find a cohesive post on this in the suggestion forum.(Updating the current search feature is a suggestion in its own).

Suggestion:
#1 Create general skill classes that would modify all the sub skills.
#2 Place all the current skills under the general skill classes.
 *With the possible exceptions of things like mining. Maybe it could become the general skill, and have sub skills such as quarrying, gem extraction, ore extraction, and whatever else under that.  If we didn't want mining to become an orphan skill.

Example:

Create A Black smith Profession general skill level.

Have the Black smith skill modify Armor smithing, Furnace Operating, Metal Crafting, Metal Furniture Making, and Weapon Crafting.

So if Someone was a legendary Black Smith, but had never made A Suit of armor before, they would have much more ability to do so than the peasant who has never touched a forge before.

This could also be implemented for military skills.
   If someone had a legendary General Military skill, and they had no skill with an ax,  It could modify their ax wielding skill up to represent that even though they had never used it before they still understand the principles and basics of warfare and would do far better then (once again) the untrained peasant.

If someone wanted to suggest some decent general names I think it would add some realism and perhaps even some fun to the game.

It would be handy, under certain circumstances, if the menu that workshops have for determining minimum and maximum skills and dwarfs that can use it was spliced into an archery target.

Specifically I would like to set the maximum level at the archery range to grand master, so I would not have legendary crossbow users machine gunning my bolts into the target continuously.

Add a flask item to the glassworks and metal forge.

Item yield is 2 per inputs. So 2 flasks per bag of sand+fuel or 2 flasks per metal bar + fuel.


add a creature clothing slot for a flask to be stored in so it does not take up a hand.  Or to be more precise if it is desired, create clothing with pockets as containers.  These could store flasks and coins.

Give dwarves the logic to find a barrel containing alcohol and collect a few drinks of it inside the flask.

When the dwarf is thirsty and they have a flask with alcohol in it, they immediately drink from it instead of going to an alcohol barrel.
 (handy for on duty military dwarves. Somewhat handy for the rest)