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(This is mostly "selfish suggestion" because it is aimed to be usefull for one certain tool. But overall, it seems like good idea for game to be more chatty when anouncing things for people who like to recount history of fort later on for fanfiction stories or who could use some anouncements to be able to react to events that need reaction to. Besides, it does not seem like overly complicated thing to do for most of them.)

Okay, I suggest game log and anouncements to contain theese messages:

* When game is loaded, usefull to know what region/fortress is being logged for consecutive games.

Loaded game for <region name>, fortress <fortress name>. It is <season> of <year>, <month_date> <month>.

* When dwarf is marked as criminal by justice and overall justice messages. Player might want to react to this message.

<dwarf> was found guilty of <crime> and was sentenced for <punishment>.
<dwarf> was imprisoned.
<dwarf> was released from prison.

* Merchants provide unloading goods message, but not "ready to trade" message, which requires close watch on it. Anouncing the fact that player can start trading is usefull.

Merchants have finished unloading and are ready to trade.

* Siege end, purely for historical records.

<race> siege has been broken.

* Animal slaughtering message is a bit confusing because it is same as when animal gets killed by hostiles and knowledge that cat was slaughtered by player isntead of being killed by monster is usefull.

<animal> was slaughtered.

* Hostiles deaths are not logged at all - they should be logged as part of their combat log. Fun for grepping answer for "how many goblins did we kill?"

* Dwarven skill-ups and downs. I have chosen breakpoints after which low-quality products are impossible and first signs of rust so that player can react accrdingly (either ignore or queue some production).

<dwarf> has became Proficient <skill>.
<dwarf> has became Accomplished <skill>.
<dwarf> has became Legendary <skill>.

<dwarf> is now very rusty at <skill>.
<dwarf> forgot great deal of <skill>.

* Animal groups entering/leaving map should be anounced. Important-ish to tip off player that hunters will be doing their thing or that there are new targets for military live practice.

<species> wandered near fortress.
<species> have left.

* Total population after embark wave, for historical records.

There are now <number> <fortress_race> in our fortress.

* Dwarves getting to critical levels of hunger or thirst, somethign that player might want to know in case cosntriction worker walled himself off at inaccessible location.

* Mayor elections, ascendance from expedition-leader led community to mayor-led one. Just to record history better.

* Party ending, as players could want to be tipped off that workforce will be once again avaialble.

* Workshop construction being finished, so that player can immediatelly queue tasks.

<dwarfname> has finished construction of <workshopname>.

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That's it for now.

Versions prior DF2010 had "(dwarf) is more experienced." message whenever dwarf gained skill level, this message seems to be missing in DF2010.

Is there ways to turn it back on?

I'll go ahead and advertize SoundSense ( http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60287 ) project here.

Goal of project is to add sounds to DF the way vizualizers added graphics and various tools added gui .

What is needed to be done (apart from starting to use it) are sounds and voice packs. Basic engine is mostly ready, but content is missing and here is your chance to be vocal!

Hello!

First, download link:
http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/

Seccond, example video of what it does:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSX3piF5ww8

SoundSense is tool that reads gamelog.txt and plays sounds according to it entries (so, when game appends, i.e., "It has started raining.", utility plays one of rain sounds.).

Player can fully customize what is and what is not played by digging into xml configuration and add his own sounds and triggering lines.

There is a wiki page with documentation:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Utility:SoundSense

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If you want latest version of soundpack, edit your configuration.xml and set autoUpdateURL to:

<autoUpdateURL path="http://www.armedassault.info/_hosted/soundsense/au"/>

What: Allow barrel to be 'b'uilt at a location as building.

What will it do:

Dwarves will fill it with given fluid (water for starters) using buckets, 1 water level per bucket up to 7. It would also collect rain water when outside and would collect ordinary water if dropped from one level above it.

It would be source of water from drinking or for bucket brigade (if set as source in q menu).

When linked to lever and pulled, it would become "open" and leak fluid to adjacent squares.

Why?

Way to collect rain water
Water distribution throught fortress
Irrigation

Here it is:

http://garfield.zweistein.cz/

Window into sad, empty life of Jon who battles with his insanity. Enjoy!

So I got my first mood in 2010, straight fey mood by butcher that claimed craftswarfs shop.

He desires rock blocks (easy) and "body parts".

Now, what the hell does that mean? I slaughtered several animals so i have various prepared brains and lungs and whatnot, I also have enough meat, bones and skulls to sculpt abomination. He is not taking anything.

What exactly does he want?

Basically, if workshop produces items that can be put to bin or barrel, hauler should put empty one in workshop. Worker would then put items directly to container and container would be hauled off to stockpile when full.

Container itself would not reduce or add clutter (it helps to organize items, but it takes space for itself.), but it would help with eventual hauling operation as only bin would be hauled out of workshop instead of several individual items.

This would help especially with workshop that over-produces and is heavily cluttered as when stockpile space become available again, only one-tenth of hauling jobs would be generated.