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Does adamantine only appears in specific biomes ?

Threat: The giants living in their cloud cities.

I like this idea. In a fantasy environment, you might see landscape that's actually made up of giant sleeping turtles, enormous dragons, world-serpents, vast slumbering trolls, giant skeletons/corpses, continent-sized elementals, city-sized golems/collossi, what have you.

It would be great if it could be modeled.

I *don't* think it should be easy, or wise, to try to kill such a creature.
There should be major and immediate repercussions, and-to use the turtle as an example-it shouldn't be at all easy to penetrate such a shell. It'd probably be several degrees harder and more resilient than a normal turtle shell. Not to mention, slow or not, such an awesome beast should/would be able to defend itself.

They might even have protectors.

Heck, just killing it would provoke a flood of presurized blood to rush out and (ironicaly) drown everything in its path.. and once its stops, it coagulate somewhat, trapping and sealing the affected areas.

Food-
My prepared food isnt put in barrels, and there are dozens empty lying around.. how can i order them to be put in barrels?

i would like very much receiving less immigrants per wave. Right now its always between 20-30 each time they come. And 70% of these are always completely useless..

If we could ask the town liason what kind of immigrant we need, the number we want and who we dont want..  it would allow us some control over their content and numbers..

- Strange behavior when civilians are in danger

I got in front of my entrance a big "restricted access" zone, and lots of traps. My dudes moove out to do their thing, meet ambushing goblins litteraly on the doorstep.. but instead of going back in (because in front there is; Goblins, restricted area).. they stupidly charge foward and basically commit suicide by isolating themselves in the middle of goblin crowd..

Is the "running away" "AI" just makes dwarves move randomly? They dont even try to retreat back inside. Lost many very good dwarves to that suicidal behavior (i usually dont have the reaction time to instantly give them the order to move back in) . Also, the order of "only soldiers out" seems to be ignored whenever ennemies are too close.

skull totems would be usefull if we could use them as furniture to decorate places, expecially when you use megabeast skulls (dragon skull totem in the main dining hall anyone?). or place them outside your fort as a "warning" to invaders..

Early caravan i have trouble buying, but after 3-4 years, i can buy them whole almost constantly. Craft have no use and are produced really, really fast.. with some skills they sell well.

Stop a couple of them from doing anything else with the V (select someone)-P (preference)-L(labor)? If they are not that busy they will rush to do that job. And is your Trade depot close to your finished goods stockpile? The closer the better, i made my Trade depot on top of my stockpile with lots of stairs, and it takes only an instant to move all the goods.