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Yep prepare to have a dwarf that stumbles around 24/7. Also make sure that you dont have any narrow hallways with drops next to them other wise he might fall in.

I always make the Bookkeeper, Broker, and Manager the same dwarf, and it's always worked reasonably well.

I generally do the same, and then toss on something like engraving or stonecrafting for when they aren't busy with anything else.  Actually, those are good matches for any noble slot.  Rarely is engraving or stonecrafting needed immediately, and it is generally easy to have a second one for times when you absolutely need to have that fortification carved out right now.

Make sure to avoid time sensitive or intermediate tasks.  A noble butcher for example is a terrible idea because butchers need to get to work ASAP to prevent kills going to waste.  Tanners are bad for the same reason.  It's also a good idea to avoid things like thresher, furnace operator, wood burner, weaver, etc. because having a stall on producing thread can screw up an entire industry.

You could also go for something like weaponsmith as you aren't likely to be making tons and tons of weapons, however that can occasionally be time sensitive when a siege is on the way.  If weapons are going to be a big export for you though, you'll want to reconsider.

So, to sum it up:  Stone/wood/bonecrafting and engraving are great and avoid time sensitive/intermediate jobs.

Perhaps he was in a bad mood at the time when the strange mood started and something caused him to become happier after the fact.

So, I'm sure this has been asked before, but I have no idea how to search for it.

Fairly simple question: Is there any way to fill in a hole without doing a natural stone cave in or coming at it from the side?

I'm doing a 'city' challenge and had to clear out some murky pools, and now I want to fill them back in so that I can build on top of them.  So far I've been filling them in with clay walls so far, but I get to the very last square and I'm not sure how to fill it in.  I can't access any side squares, so I can't build a wall.  I suppose I could just cover it over with a floor, but I was hoping for something a bit cleaner.

Seems like it shouldn't be so difficult to fill in a hole, am I missing something?

You don't need to do 5 actually and it still works fine.  It'll count as indoors but light, so you'll be able to set up dining rooms but avoid cave adaption.

For some reason floors of any kind allow light though.  No idea why.

This would be kinda cool, but if you really want to know how much food you have you can always just use the stocks screen.

Still, it would be handy to be able to glance at our food stockpile and see that your almost out of booze or something similar.

Not directly no.  The only way you can manage it at the moment is get the items you want him to equip into a stockpile, put him in the area, lock off the area, and then set him to equip stuff.  He'll pick up the stuff around him as it is all he has access to.

This is currently the only way to force your guys to pick masterwork stuff as opposed to low quality, and the only way to pick steel as opposed to iron and so on.

Actually I suppose you could also forbid every single piece of armor/weapon that you don't want equiped and isn't already being used by another dwarf, but that is an even bigger pain I would think.