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If I'm constructing something on the surface near my wood stockpile, when choosing a material I'll have to scroll past all the different types of logs.  Plus obsidian and flux will often be before the value-1 stone that I actually want to use.  I could mass forbid obsidian/flux/wood, do my construction, and then unforbid them, but it'd be better if I could simply say "never use these things for construction", or "put non-metal/non-economic stone at the top of the list, even if other things are closer".

I was trying to search the forums for exactly the string "glob", so I did "glob -global".  However, this leads to the error: "The database value you're trying to insert does not exist: all_word_body_2".  I get the same error for any search that uses "-" to exclude a string.

The first elven caravan spawned in the north-west corner of the map and made it's way south to my trade depot.  I got my trader there, traded, dismissed my trader... and then I see a few elves with pack-animals in tow coming up to the depot from the south.  Is this something that's known to happen?  Or was I just misreading the screen?

When telling a trade liaison which items you'd like to import, it'd be nice if it would highlight material types (blocks of metal, stone, etc) which one of your dwarves have a preference for.  Even better if it would list which dwarves likle it and how much of it (if any) you have in stock.

In my most recent game I found out only by accident that my stonecrafter's workshop was completely cluttered with finished goods, and I sometimes forget to turn on "Dwarves gather refuse from outside", leading to my outside butcher's shop becoming cluttered with bones.  It would be nice if it would be announced when a workshop's clutter-level increases,  so you'd know when there's a problem.

This current game was the second time I got a dwarf with a strange mood, and the first one that required shell, which I had forgotten about.  Being very new to the game, it took me a while to get some turtles and put them in a food stockpile near a dining room.  However, none of the dwarves would eat them.  So I tried forbidding everything in that food stockpile (and other stockpiles nearby) except for the turtles.  However, as far as I could tell:

1) They kept eating out of the forbidden barrels.

2) They started taking the forbidden barrels out of the stockpile and moving them... somewhere.

3) After my dwarf went insane and I reclaimed the remaining food barrels, they started bringing back the removed barrels.

Was I misinterpreting something?  Was I doing it wrong?

(And it was the stonecrafter who was the source of all my exports.  *sigh)

After creating a world, I set the site finder to find a site with a magma vent/pipe, no underground river, no underground lake, no chasm and no bottomless pit.  Worked fine, but there was too much forest and not enough mountain.  I moved the fortress site over so there was more mountain and less forest, which also moved it closer towards a nearby volcano.  So far, I've dug out tons of obsidian, but I still haven't found any magma.  Could the magma have been under the forest located by the site finder?

So far as I understand, the number of immigrants you'll attract is related to your fortress wealth.  Thus if early in the game you create a few very valuable artifacts, or digging out rooms and/or exploratory mining produces lots of valuable stone, then you'll get more immigrants than you can handle.  The formula for how many immigrants you attract should also take into account things like:

* Yearly/seasonal production rates of food and booze.
* Size of food/booze stockpiles (or lack thereof).
* Number of rooms in the fortress.
* Total square-footage of rooms in the fortress.

Thus if you had a fortress with lots of wealth but very little in the way of food, booze and rooms you'd get very few immigrants, while a fortress with very little wealth but plenty of empty bedrooms and overflowing with food and booze would attract at least a few immigrants.