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That sounds cool, I'd really like to see it.  Have you loaded it up to the DF Map Archive?

Sorry, that fort was abandoned months ago.  This is a bit of a zombie thread.

Not a bug then, just behavior I didn't know about.  Locking the topic.

I have a 5X5 tomb for one of my nobles.  It has, among other things, two tame cave crocodiles on golden chains.  These crocodiles are chained in the center of the room where they can't reach the walls of the room or any of the previously constructed furniture.

The noble who owns the tomb has demanded "Clear glass window in tomb".  I made the glass window, but when I try to place it in the tomb as soon as a dwarf reaches the construction site I get the message "Glass Window destroyed by Stray Cave Crocodile (Tame)" and the job is canceled.  Note that the window is being built in a place where the crocodile can reach neither the window nor the dwarf constructing it.  The crocodiles are tame and don't interrupt jobs by scaring dwarves.  They are building destroyers, but a building destroyer should only be able to destroy a building it can actually reach.  And yet here a crocodile is consistently destroying a building 2 squares away from it, before that building is even finished being built.

The only mod I have on this fortress is Dig Deeper.  The crocodile in question is tame, although it shows as 'hostile' on the unit list.  (tamed exotic animals showing as hostile is a known bug and not what I'm reporting here)  Save file can be supplied on request.

I've done something similar on several forts.  Designate the ground under the staring wagon as ramps after deconstructing the wagon.  That will cause all of your starting gear to fall one level.  Then build a floor over that area, sealing everything underground, and then build/dig out from there.

Babies don't fall through grates or bars, but children are a different size than adults, so in theory you could build some sort of sorting mechanism using pressure plates and hatches or doors.

Any thoughts on why the dead horse did not get butchered (the corpse was in doors).  (it may have been a pet (can dead pets be butchered?))

Tame animals can't be butchered.  Tame animals that aren't pets can be slaughtered, but tame animals that die from any means other than being deliberately slaughtered by a dwarf at a butcher's shop can't be butchered.  Wild animals can be butchered, no matter how they die, so long as your dwarves can reach their corpse and place it on a refuse pile.  You may have to turn on the order for dwarves to gather refuse from outside and dig ramps so they can reach air-drowned carp, but they will butcher them.

Creatures airborne are in stasis and can't be affected in any way.  You need Dwarf Companion to get him unstuck.  Deselect the 'projectile' bit.