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A typical starting seven

Appraiser 3 Judge of Intent 3 Negotiator 1 Persuader 1 Consoler 1 Discipline 1
 - Expedition leader and Broker. Gets assigned mining labour following embark as it will skill up very quickly digging out the initial farm rooms and temporary storage in the dirt layers.

Mason 4 Building Designer 5 Discipline 1
 - Skip straight past most of the crappy quality furniture lets you get a high quality dining room up and running early. Bring along a flux stone, cut it into blocks and use them to build your trade depot, this dwarfs skill gives a good chance that your dwarves will get "admired a fine depot" thoughts. Enable mechanics if you want to start building traps/machines prior to the first migrant wave.

Grower 5 Herbalist 4 Discipline 1
 - Can usually provide sufficient food by himself to keep a fort of up to 50 dwarves running, assuming that hauling is disabled for him(food hauling may be left on until the first batch of migrants arrive). Sent to make a single piece of armour or weaponry once the forge is up and running so as to have a useful mood-able skill.

Diagnostician 5 Bone doctor 1 Surgeon 1 Suturer 1 Wound dresser 1 Discipline 1
 - Chief Medical Dwarf. Usually gets assigned as initial bookkeeper and secondary miner. Again, gets sent to make a single piece of armour or weaponry once the forge is up and running so as to have a useful mood-able skill.

Carpenter 5 Brewer 4 Discipline 1
 - As brewing usually only takes a short while to make a large quantity, it can easily be alternated with your barrel making. May be sent out to chop down a few trees initially before an early migrant gets assigned as lumberjack.

Cook 5 Stone crafter 4 Discipline 1
 - Again cooking tends to be done in batches, so intervening time can be spent making goods for trade. Swap out craft skill if you are planning on something other than stone for the basis of your trade goods.

Weaponsmith 4 Armorsmith 3 Furnace operator 2 Discipline 1
 - Switch balance of skill around to taste. I prefer some furnace operator to speed initial smelting, but it can be excluded.

All dwarves have Discipline 1 to minimise their fleeing in panic at the first sight of a slightly irritable animal, or dismembered goblin.

I tend to follow the, bring raw materials, make tools on site, school of thought. So I usually bring a bunch of Bituminous Coal or Lignite and Copper nuggets or Malachite along with some wood and stone. Initial workshops can be set up while the tools are being made and jobs such as cooking all your meat into meals, gathering nearby fruit and plants, erecting a trade depot and so on can be done without them.

The paranoid info-sec part of my brain says it seems like a bad idea to log into a secondary site when you're not logged into the primary site.  That said... I am, in fact, paranoid about computer security.  ^_____^

It's actually pretty secure from that perspective as it sends you to steam to log in and then confirms what you want to permit the referring site to be permitted to do. That said I fully understand what you mean .

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List of games being donated. I think aristabulus already got them all posted up but just in case anything was missed.

notes:
Shattered Horizon is no longer available for purchase on steam but steam keys can still be redeemed. Apparently removed due to the devs no longer being able to maintain leader boards after selling the game to another company, but single player and community servers are still working fine.

Paranautical Activity - Game was removed from sale on steam after the main game dev apparently gave out a death threat to Gabe on twitter back on 20th october. Existing steam keys should still work.

Amazing Zombie Defense was renamed for steam release to Yet Another Zombie Defense.


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From what I recall, training of creatures in your fort does not currently affect the civilizations level of familiarity with the animal. As world events now continue to be simulated outside of your fort, it is possible that the train/domesticate events can occur outside while your fort is running.

Possibly by creating a fort full of highly trained animal trainers then abandoning it and setting up another would allow them to go out and domesticate more creatures.

There are three selection pointers for buildings, 'k' - look, 'q' - interact and 't' - contents. If you don't seem to be seeing what you expect when a building is selected always try all three first.

Here are a few of those I've done in the past.

Half-life - Crowbar only.
Similarly for HL2 and the episodes crowbar only except where you are absolutely required to use another weapon.

Deus Ex - Non lethal completion, prod and tranq-dart takedowns only. Managed to get a fair way through a no weapons/items run at one point(reached versa-life) but lost the save during a computer migration.

Skyrim - No merchant run. Only able to use what you can loot/steal. This includes spell-books, you have to find them as loot. Variants of this in the other Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3/NV games, but Skyrim is the only one I've actually completed the main quest and a good portion of the side-quests/major storylines.

Fallout - New Vegas - Varmint rifle only. That rifle you are given for target practice at the beginning of the game? Your only weapon you are permitted to fire. Can carry other weapons to repair with but not for use. Have fun with deathclaws.

Fallout 3 - Similarly to the above, the BB gun you get during the intro is your only permitted weapon. Spend a lot of time running between merchants trying to find ammo. Excludes points where you lose access to your equipment such as during operation Anchorage.

X-Com - no plasma weapons/alien weapons, no armour above personal, no psionics. Actually managed to complete this one after many attempts with the alien brain shot down with a pistol.
X-Com - Hawaii single base run. Managed to get surprisingly far with this, up to my second alien base assault before it collapsed.

Bloodbowl - Orc, all lineman team. Managed to make it through to win the cup, but so many deaths of rookie linemen. Attempted this with a halfling team once. Much squishing.

I've only recently come back to playing after a several year break as well. Here are a few of the things I've noticed.

Multi-tile trees.
Many new plants.
Fruit trees. Fallen fruit can be gathered from the ground and dwarves in a gathering zone will automatically use stepladders to gather fruit from up to two z-levels above. Anything higher on the trees requires the construction of a scaffold to stand on.
Many plants now give more than one product when harvested/gathered. e.g. strawberries give a cookable strawberry plant as well as the strawberries.
Several types of seeds(as well as olives) can now be processed(mill to a paste, then squeeze in a press) to produce oil used in the production of soap. This removes the requirement for butchering animals for animal fat.

Mining skill no longer determines how many tiles will drop a boulder/gem. Boulders now drop 25% of the time from any rock or ore wall mined, while gems drop 100% of the time.
Boulders now get split into four blocks at the mason, while ores will smelt into four bars. Overall this results in an increase in available building material for constructions, reduced supply for stone crafts and similar stone items and the same amount of metal bars available.

Many creatures can now climb and jump. Rough walls are easier to climb than smoothed or constructed walls. Building a two level wall and then an overhang on the third level will stop climbers, as long as there is no nearby tree or hill to give them a spot to jump from.

Necromancy is now a thing. Evil biomes with a hunting industry or after a siege can now result in much FUN.

The world outside of your fort now continues to be simulated. This allows for wars to continue and inherited positions to be inherited but can also result in much slowdown while processing it.