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I assume this is a bug.

I build a restraint, assign an animal to it, removed the chain (not the animal), the animal walks freely with the rope/chain attached to its upper body.

Workaround to get rope/chain back is to view the rope on the animal and dump it.

edit: sorry, wrong subforum. Can a mod move this to the appropriate one please?

I'm a bit flabbergasted by burrows. I painted one in and even though none of my dorfs are assigned to it they all stick inside it and refuse to go out and do their job. There was no alert on, so unless I paint the burrow to encompass wherever they need to work they won't!

I assume there is a way to switch dorfs from moving about at will to sticking to burrows when I tell 'em to but I can't seem to figure out how.

If your cistern/pond/reservoir is lower than the water source it will overflow if you make a hole there. You can normalize the water pressure by using a pump.

Side view:

##≈≈####
##≈≈≈≈≈# |  W
######≈##|## ###
######≈≈%%~~~~~#
######≈≈##~~~~~#
################

~ - non-pressurized water
≈ - pressurized water (from river, brooks, etc)
% - pump
| - vertical axle (connected to whatever power supply necessary)
W - Well (over open space)
# - unmined terrain
(Note that the pump will only pump water if there is water in the tile is 1 z-level below the input side)

Or if you're not too sure about using pumps you can use floodgates and let in as much water as you need before closing it manually or via pressure plates.

Fish that your fisherdwarfs can catch will still be able to get in, I think. They're technically vermin and simply spawn. Fish like carp, will be isolated. If your reservoir is the same level as the water source you can use wall grates/bars to filter the carp and not worry about water pressure.

I think this is where I concede, in the face of indomitable ignorance.

On the miasma:

I only put refuse stockpiles outside (non subterranean tiles) as this would prevent miasma from being generated. The only refuse stockpiles I have underground only accept bones, skulls and shells as they don't seem to ever rot underground and I use them to decorate stuff.

I also use take 'from orders' so that corpses that have rotten in outdoor refuse stockpiles will have their bones transferred into indoor bone/shell/skull stockpiles for preservation.

If you have to place refuse stockpiles underground, don't vent them. There's no point in it, it won't make the miasma go away faster, it'll just spread more. However, make sure the refuse stockpile is only accessible diagonally.

e.g.
wwwww
w+++w
w+++w
w+++w
wwwwD

W - walls
+ - refuse stockpile
D - door (not actually necessary)

Miasma does not spread diagonally.

Powering a pump with a brook seems like the most sensible thing, but I'm not really sure how I'd get the pump to bring the water upwards, since it only options are east, west, north, and south for the pumps...though I can only assume I would need a vertical axis somewhere?

I refer you back to the link I gave earlier in this thread:

Some info on pumps, if you need to bring the water several z-levels up from a lower level:
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Pump#Stacked_pumps

If there are certain parts you don't understand from the wiki don't hesitate to ask.

In the wiki, it says that walls that have statues in front of them will not be recognized for any smoothing or engraving and will not add to the value of the room, maybe it's changed, idk.

While statues don't block line of sight it does limit the room's size as stated in the wiki.

Remember that they can't actually breed while caged, but will give birth in cages if already pregnant, So you should keep at least one male and one breeding female chained up in a pen, which is easier then letting them out once a season and doesn't affect your fps much.