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Alternatively, as long as you have a good suit of armour you really don't have anything else to spend your money on (and if you're a dwarf or an elf, absolutely nothing to), so you might as well bling yourself out with the loot you've found.

Maybe while he was in the pond he leveled him swimming ability up to like legendary +5 and got super strong and so on.

I believe liquids are hardcoded. Otherwise we'd have rivers of booze and blood popping up in mods every now and then.

I confess to removing aquifers, and all non sand soil, If only so I can skip the painful process of site finding. Having an awesome idea for a megaproject ruined simply because you don't feel like spending another hour genning sites to find one that actually has sand as well as everything else you're looking for is dissapointing. And aquifers... aquifers simply aren't fun.

I'll agree you can't do your best megaprojects on aquifers but aquifers can be a bunch of fun, if you use the correct multi-aquifer drilling techniques you can smash through an unlimited amount of layers quickly, and you feel cool doing it. Also, some of my best memories come from aquifer related hijinx; once, I breached HFS and they were swarming the mines, killing dozens. One brave dwarf attempted to remove a wooden wall holding back the aquifer while the surviving champions fought to protect him. He finally removed it and a flood of water washed down into the mines, almost saving the fort forever (one had snuck by before oops).

Savescumming I can proudly say I am not guilty of, although that's probably because my very favourite thing in the game is to watch a mature fort die in a terrible way. Watching the fortress guard attempt to enforce justice as the world collapses around them is like a badass apocalpyptic movie. If I lose a young fort, I just shrug it off as I didn't lose that much time.

Hey Rebel I remember seeing an amazing church a little while back in this forum; go back a few pages or so. Anyways, I don't bury my dwarves but I do bury humans who die on my map. I just dig a ramp and a single mine tile which is designated for humans only. Once the whole thing is complete I place a single marble block wall above the ground over the body and another marble floor over the ramp. It looks pretty classy and if you had the coffins it would look even better.

So what killed him?

Yeah low magic is definately the best. The best part will be enchanted weapons and armour with elemental powers. The suggestion of slowly summoning demons and things was really good too.