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In the meantime, I realized just now that the critter list for the animal stockpiles is in order of the raw files.

So, you're suggesting that if we put the RAW files in "an order", then the animal stockpiles will ~also~ appear in that order???

<runs off to test>

I got your "plaintive gesture" right here.

I thought that strange moods only gave experience for the skill used to create the artifact?

Nope.

Other unexpected item-producing skills include Weaver, Engraver, Gem Cutter/Setter, and Tanner. And Bone Carver sometimes produces non-standard furniture instead of off their usual list.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Strange_mood#Artifacts_created

+1 (generally speaking).

A dwarven fortress itself is much like dwarven engineering - a large, lumbering, clumsy juggernaut that is unstoppable once set in motion.

If you have a lot of dwarves, you'll probably have a lot of idlers - don't worry too much about it (unless, of course you enjoy fine tuning that, then more power to ya!). 

It's pretty easy to have almost no idlers up to a couple dozen dwarves, and if adding a dozen adds a few idlers, that's still making your workforce bigger by almost 10 dwarves.  It's the net engine size that matters, not % at the high end.

Just leave them where they are - if they give birth a SECOND time without being out of their cages, then it's confirmed.

But as it is, doesn't seem we can confirm they were not pregnant before they were caged, right? (Or am I misunderstanding?)

Doesn't address my question. Both could have been pregnant before caging afaict.

Build a straight wall (or remove a line of ramps), and build your traps at either end - animals will wander around the barrier and cut the end, right into the traps.  I also modify the "corners" of the walls of my fortress to allow for a few cage traps there - works the same unless I have guards on the walls which scare them off. (I have raising bridges to seal the area for harvesting/reloading the cages.)


Elephants (and rhinos to a lesser extent) take SO much grazing that even 1 is tough to keep alive. A tiny herd can easily strip all your grazing land bare quite quickly, resulting in them then quickly starving to death. Sad, but true.