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When it comes to music, I listen to way too many artists to name, this being a rather long-winded game. I mean, I'd get pretty bored listening to one artist, not to mention one album, for like 8 or 12 hours straight, which is how long I can spend on DF at a time if I really get going.

One particular thing I can recommend when playing slow games like city builders, 4X or grand strategy, is audiobooks. These are games where you rarely have to think on your feet, or otherwise concentrate much, which should usually leave you with enough attention to spare for something like an audiobook, or as Bill said, TV.

Their usefulness only applies when I butcher them, especially since I was raising them as livestock. I mean, I generally keep animals for food and other products, not for decoration (useless) or defense (inferior to the alternatives).

And knowing DF,  the guy probably took the elephant with him to the butcher's shop.

How else was he gonna butcher it? Bring the butcher shop to the elephant?

importing

Looks like someone hasn't played .31 yet. In the current version, shells get removed from a creature as it gets cleaned at the fishery, and imported turtles/lobsters/fish/etc. are already cleaned. There's no way of importing shells or bones themselves either.

That's a good point, mate.

Glass has many advantages:
1. Green glass can be produced in endless amounts, and clear glass production is only limited by your access to coal.
2. It's moderately valuable (green glass is the equivalent of obsidian) and very versatile (combining most or all uses of stone and gems with some uses of wood).
3. It can be used to train your gem cutter and setter to legendary +5 without wasting any precious stones in the process.

Accordingly, if gem working is your thing, then I really recommend setting up a glass industry. The main synergy here is the above mentioned usability of glass for jeweler training.

I mostly agree with Pistolero on his condemnation of people being excessively rude on the Internet at the drop of a hat, but I think that some indignation towards people who won't look for their shit on their own is warranted.

Accordingly, I'm all for linking people to lmgtfy.com when they waste our - and their own - time with questions they could have more quickly answered themselves, but reactions like Lodester's tirade two or three pages earlier are uncalled for (and in this particular case, embarrassing to read).

You've been given some pretty damn clear responses, so I don't see what the problem is. You can build artifact furniture the same way you'd build regular stuff. Artifact crafts are even more useless than regular crafts, since you can't even sell them; accordingly, you can mod in a display case and place them there, or you could do like most of us, and put up with them being useless. What else do you need to know?