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I'm trying a human game as well. Found a cool area that was the intersection of two rivers. It created a very powerful small river that flooded the lowlands, creating a small freshwater lake. However, I realized late that I didn't bring the appropriate seeds to make food with. I also had a problem penetrating the aquifer and my miner died (I was trying the ceiling collapse method, but he drowned).

I also had an issue where one of my wood choppers dropped his axe and couldn't pick it up again. It was a double iron axe. Any reason why this would happen? He kept trying to pick it up, but couldn't.

d13 I believe.

Do humans get moods and make artifacts?

What's with the Valve hate?

Then the orcs came...

This works as an epilogue to any DF story.

I just got back from vacation in Mexico. During that time I played a "vacation fortress."

In the fortress I had a Ranger dwarf out hunting. I suddenly started getting spammed with messages that he was failing his job due to falling unconscious. I looked at his wounds sheet and he looked fine. Only a few hours later, after getting annoyed at the unconscious message spam, did I realize I had to scroll down on the wounds sheet. Turns out both of the Ranger's eyes were gouged out. He was completely blind and was continually falling over as he groped around the wilderness attempting to hunt.

Sigh.

I took him off all duties and he lived for quite some time, just wandering the halls of the fortress. Sometimes I would get messages that he failed to eat or drink due to collapsing, but no big deal.

Urist McBlind eventually died when a wooden execution tower I was building collapsed, crushing him as he randomly wandered beneath it.

(In this same game the Liason from the mountainhomes arrived !armless! and continually fell unconscious after he arrived making it no less than 3 years before he finally managed to conduct a meeting with my Mayor. After finally signing a trade agreement he promptly fell stone dead from no obvious cause on his way to the edge of the map.)

There must be code that makes crafters consider not just using their own preferences, but the preferences of leaders or loved ones. I think your dragon engraver was buying some political favor.

Cave rivers can sometimes terminate into a small chasm. This chasm works just like any other chasm, except if you're going to dump magma you have to be careful that you dump it on the other side of the chasm, away from the waterfall.

Aside from that, you can just fling items and/or nobles down there into oblivion all you want.

As for water, a pump cannot lift water higher than the pump, so every level you want to lift water has to have a pump. Luckily stacking pumps is trivial, and you can make the pumps out of wood, metal, or glass and it all works the same.

I have one of these on my map. Do they spawn chasm creatures like other chasms?