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I can't pretty well eliminate any worries of seeds in hauling: I had a field like this with a stockpile for seeds immediately to the side of it. Checking the bins with k there were a great deal of seeds in the stockpile.

I also ran into an issue where I cannot produce pig iron -_-
Plenty of everything I should need but it doesn't show up in the list and if I use the manager it gets canceled due to not having any "stone". Checking for anything marked dump or forbidden was the first thing I did, and very thoroughly.

There's some buggy crap at work here 

There's no real way to get rid of the stuff so you've got to set up wading pools before there's ever a mess or else it will just multiply in your hallways endlessly.

If we could actually assign dwarves to go around cleaning tiles the way you can tell them to smooth or engrave them then it would be absolutely trivial to deal with but as it stands? With only cleaning enabled they will idle rather than do anything.

As for washing schemes there lies the small problem of how you can't remove the crap. Even with the best possible use of water you'll just end up with about a million little piles and spatters on the same tile.

Now, if you set up your entire fort so that you can lock down every section to flood it with magma and drain it then you may stand a slim chance against this crap but you can't do that around engravings or the bedrooms so you're still screwed even if you manage this massively oversized project to handle what was just supposed to be a little mess.

If you want to grow sweet pods you basically have to have a lot more land available. You can only harvest them once a season so compared to the other plants they end up in rather short supply. If you've got some dedicated farmers you might set a good share of tiles to grow them but any seeds planted too late are wasted (I think?) Really if you've got even two 5x5s you could lay off plump helmets any time sweet pods were growable and be fine.

The problem was not mixing cats and magma. It was not mixing cats and magma much earlier.

Give your military move orders instead. You should be able to get them to at least go to the entrance and then if there's some kind of barrier they can't get past you can work out where it is.

No, there's obviously selection. Right now there are enough bacteria of some of the more common species on Earth that basically every possible single base mutation happens on a fairly short timescale. (Can't recall if it's a few weeks or more like a year.) They literally try everything- but that doesn't actually change them a whole lot. You try everything in reach, natural selection takes a turn, you try everything in reach again, and so on. After a thousand generations your line ends up pretty different from the line that came from your twin sister (or not.)

But as for the size that's a matter of having organs. Bacteria colonies have physical limitations and I judged the size of ole burger particularly on how big the exposed ring would be compared to the unexposed area of cells. Plus some bias from C. elegans.

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I've done enough art projects to know that you don't really have such extreme tunnel vision. If you're having a hard time thinking of other things go back to tactile paper and pencil and just draw like that. I made three really different forms without even adding any significant organs to octobrachius and they were different enough that I had to think for awhile. Changing just one or two things subtly is easier, is it not? I went with extreme because you seemed stuck not seeing anywhere else it could go but you've become almost hostile since then.
But hey, if you can't do small then don't. Big is fine and I've got all those prompts that basically ask for fairly big changes.

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Fascination is the first draw but if you like hearing me talk about how life works it's informative too.
The lack of motivation to do this isn't a matter of things being un-fun to draw. The project has been slow and instead of making things go faster we just wait instead. You want things to happen without doing anything. I'm familiar with the feeling but I also know that nothing will happen if I don't keep trying.
I can't really fix this so if you want to be leave the project thanks for your contributions so far.

Ghosts in particular were just a spoiler right after release. In particular Toady didn't declare them in the devlog so we all took that to mean they were FUN we shouldn't deprive others of. From here on out I wouldn't say it's too big of a deal to not mention ghosts in thread titles and that- anybody new won't really equate ghosts being very different from things like zombies.

As for hell, you've got to have a lot of things going right in a fort to really reach that so it's really out of the newbie reach and as such we sort of try not to tell people about it prematurely. Anything else that takes the same sort of effort to get at should probably not be brought up too casually.

Yeah, we're simply not going to through this with a world that's got reptiles that came from some worm while there's a whole group the size of mammals that came from a jellyfish. One thing is going to become more successful but right now we haven't fleshed out the ecosystem enough. Can you picture one of these things taking over what another one does right now? Probably if you pick two of the ones that just try to eat the same kind of thing but really what is there but the size of things they eat?
We need to address more of the prompts to get to a better point for that.

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The simple sketch doesn't have to be the end point. You can draw the general shape of a dog in a few seconds but you could spend hours and hours drawing out the details of variations of dogs. The simple outline would quickly get us into new territory and then we can flesh it out from there. Stuff IS disconnected right now because like you've said, life tries everything. We need to get a little closer to that sort of everything before we can thin the herd and cause the more interesting developments to take place.