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Re: the lack of Goblins. It's possible they are extinct. It's a lot easier in the new version for one species or another to get wiped out during world-generation. If it matters to you, while selecting your next embark site, be sure and TAB-key through and see if everyone's alive.

These are all for 40d. The new version changed everything.

1. Don't designate the dining room as a meeting hall.  No meeting hall=no parties. However, dwarves who are not doing anything will thus wander about aimlessly.

2. There's nothing you can do. He'll either get better on his own or he won't. (most likely won't.)

3. The easiest way to get shells is from turtles, which are officially vermin, and can usually be caught by a fisherdwarf in aboveground pools. They are also available to buy as meat when you embark. Eating a turtle produces a shell, which are dumped in refuse piles. Install an indoor refuse pile set to accept only shells (and bones, because you'll probably need them too at some point.)

TR- sorry, but I simply had to make your Sasquatch anatomically correct:

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If you're just starting out, you really should switch back to the old version. Fewer crippling bugs, and the lava is much closer to the surface. All of these answers are for the old version.

1. If you want to  be sure you've got water, include a river or stream in your embark area. They show up on the world map when you're hunting around. Downside, if it's a river, it's going to have dangerous fish living in it. Other things to look for are lots of trees (wood), and sand (glassmaking).

2. The fishcleaner is always going to get done faster than the guys who catch the fish. Wait for some raw fish to pile up, then tell him to go to work. Don't put too many fisherdwarves to work, as you'll just clean out the local population too fast.
You don't -need- to cook food at this stage in the learning curve. Your dwarves will survive just fine on raw plump helmets and butchered meat. (Just make sure to plant lots of plump helmets..) If you want to go through with it,yes, prepared food gets stored in barrels in food stockpiles, assuming you allow it.

3. Animals must be roaming around free in order to be marked for butchering. Still a good idea to keep them caged, as it cuts down on CPU useage. They have to be out of the cage to breed.

4. As soon as you designate two or more dwarves to be in the military, create a barracks from an armor stand or weapon rack, and take the dwarves off active duty, they will sooner or later go to the barracks and spar. It's best if they start with just wrestling, as it cuts down on accidental fatalities. Or you can make wooden training weapons, but making sure they get them is a whole different problem.

I'm mostly holding off on the new version until some of the bugs get ironed out, but I did play a fort long enough to dig down into the local underworld. Breached into an area which is mostly an underground lake/ocean. (Which is cool, that's a definite improvement!) No living things roaming around, but there are lots of spider webs. Giant spider webs. Urk.

This is something thats bothered me before.

I wanted to create some awesome swords for my training soldiers. a present for when they're good enough to be on duty proper.

But anyway, the problem arises with gems. because jewel encrusted swords are awesome, but i think nearly every time ive tried currant version or not, the jeweler always complains the items at hand are not improvable, i have tried to improve by stuffing or decorating with bone but it never changes it.

I don't know about the new version, but I'm pretty sure you can only encrust furniture, finished goods or ammo. Not weapons.