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Maybe he just really, really wants to be the Hammerer, so he made a perfect, non-lethal, Implement for the office - then put his name on it, as an application for the job.

Burial vaults or lawn crypts are pretty much the standard most everywhere now, not always due to local or state law, but usually due to cemetery rules especially if they are ICCFA members. It prevents the sinkholes. From when the casket rots/rusts out. (Also keeps the zombies in, shhhhhh.)
These are the things you learn when you work at the cemetery for a summer.

Now, a full-on mausoleum, if you can swing the price, that would be dwarfy. Wit engravings on all the interior walls, some scenes form your own life, some from random historical figures/people from your town/random images - just like the tombs in game end up. Bonus is, they build it now, even if you don't die, your tomb will be there waiting for you when the inevitable comes. (Again, just like in your forts) You would be even more likely to be able to get your obsidian vault for your casket too.
Then you just have to get on good terms with the cemetery management so you can go ahead and start storing your old worn out clothes in your tomb just like the dwarves do.

Just an arm. And it's okay.

Beat me to it.

Yes, actual deities exist. They play no part in the world other than cursing people during worldgen who defile temples to be vampires or were-creatures, and leaving the Slabs laying around. However, Toady has said multiple times that they will play more of a role in later releases.
So for example, if you go defiling a temple in adventure mode, you run the risk of getting the smite.

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When you mention orchards using the products from the old tree raws, do you mean no further trees have been added in or are the raw structures the same?

From the context, Toady simply hasn't added new trees yet that produce "fruit" beyond palms, mango trees, and chestnuts. I'm pretty sure he already mentioned that the tree raws have changed, and they pretty much have to be to accommodate growth parameters, fruit, leaves, etc.

Yeah, he already said all the growth/vegatation modifiers for trees will be moddable from the time it's released, so I think it's fair to say that he just hasn't added any new ones, but I'm sure he'll get around to it, either this release or a later one.

If it's not in this release, it probably won't happen for many years.

still counts as later, but yeah....

But like the above said, it is already in the raws... So even if Toady doesn't do them right away modders can make trees grow new stuff.

Yeah, Toady even said you can have them grow swords if you want

So that's where the elves get those wooden swords! It would be fantastic if the elves actually grew all the wooden crap they try to sell you in special orchards. "Yes, this is my prized bracelet tree, and over there is a grove of sword trees that are just ripe enough to pick." It would answer the age old question of elf-kosher.

When we have Alchemists back (who actually DO something, with an actual workshop) then this could be a thing. A quick search of what Toady has actually posted in the forum regarding gunpowder is an amazingly small list that universally says 'I don't know', which is funny considering how many people insist he isn't going to let it happen.
I seem to remember something in a DFTalk though, about gunpowder and alchemy and the current reactions system. So, if nothing else, he does at least seem to intend for it to be capable of being modded in, if my memory serves.

I count 18 dwarves who's primary profession is related directly to food production. Plus a brewer and a peasant.
Seriously how can you not feed them? Sure, ok, you aren't set up for mass farming yet... it takes a long time for a dwarf to starve. More than enough time to set up some kind of farming/fishing/hunting/butchering the non-pet livestock to feed your fort. Bonus points for the fact that kids will help harvest crops if you've got "all harvest" set.

I don't know why people hate kids.

For a really pointlessly time consuming solution, you could always roof over the entire flood area, then it won't overspill the walls.
Bonus points if you build some magma-safe pumps into the structure that, at the flip of a switch, will douse invaders in magma. Then you can just claim it was all according to plan.