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do you need to recreate a world to change temperature? or changing it immeidately change the result in-game?

while on topic..

How can i make sure i get a massive amount of wood in a caravan? Do i only select it at full priority and nothing else? Is the caravan still going to show up with large number of wagons if i do that?

Never tried it (since i always need a bunch of everything to keep my fortress alive, im in a treeless map).. with dwarves when i usually trade with them i get only 4 logs and a ton of unwanted super-costly stuff.

- theft

One of my artifact got stolen early in my game (by a kobold i guess, the thief was never seen), some triket of little value.. (and yet thieves must have some Money-Radar to have stolen this one item out of the dozens of other around it)
What i was wondering is, am i ever going to see it again? Or its just forever gone?

Not needing to micro the guard should be an asset, not a hindrance. I think this could be accomplished with designated guard posts, patrol routes and battle stations. Alarm would make them ignore patrol routes and guard posts for the time being while they man the positions you designated. Designations should be based on weapon carried for simplicity's sake. You could tick out weapon classes you don't want on that particular stretch of land you're designating, for instance draw a line across the battlements and tick off all the melee weapons. Assigning individuals seems good on paper but gets iffy when you consider the need for replacements etc. The entire idea is to reduce micro beyond the initial designation

Regular troops wouldn't have access to any of this as to make up for the fact you can boss them around on a whim

Would need an option to disable sparring, as is you can't give them any good weapons since they'll kill everyone or waste all the ammo. A mess hall and separate meeting zones for the troops would really help managing morale

interesting. Basicaly; guards as automated sentries guided by triggers and such, while we manually control our soldiers. I like.

well.. some random chained animals and wandering cats works very well for alarms, especially against kobolds in my experience.

When one become a champ, you cant do much with them anymore.. except fight. They stick with their assignment (military, guard or royal)
For elites.. you cant return them to civilian life, but IIRC you can still switch them between royals, guards and military.

Keep the useless, crippled and brain-dead as royal guards.

As of now, i always tried to keep a captain and doing the mandates, but when the crazy-hard demands/mandates comes up, or the bans that cripple my exports... i really want to kill the nobles (or else they murder my dwarves!). That and they shamelessly steal countless valuable items.

Seriously, nobles.. They are all (except for the dungeon master) useless garbage.

For my guards and royals, they mostly serve as social-skills boosters, sparring partners, or sentries if i set a meeting point somewhere near an entrance.

same problem here too, the barrack is littered with clothes and so does the metalsmith forge (when they change equipment/clothes).. since they are "owned" items, they cant be dumped IIRC.
So i ask too; how to get rid of it?