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Hello, fellow dwarven gods. Lets collect some exploits and imbalances that make the game too easy.

My share:
The price of prepared food. Especially lavish meals. A single good cook can easily produce enough value to buy out even the first autumn caravan. A stack of staple food roast goes for up to several thousands of dwarfbucks. Later, when ingredients like cheese or dwarven milk become available, prices rise obscenely high. 15000 and more are totally normal then. With maximum value ingredients and a legendary cook, the value can and sometimes does reach 7 digit numbers. So forget your export rock mugs and platinum statues. They are just a waste of time and workforce.

So, should I dig for the magma now...

Simple question: Why not?
It takes you only one miner for a couple of days or weeks. I can't imagine how this might outweigth the waste of even a single unit of a scarce resource.

I could do it with walls too, since monsters cant destroy walls.

Walls give the enemy cover against your archers. I even chop down all trees in the defence area to minimize cover. Don't know if its useful, though.

On my third fortress, at the ocean shore:

"Oh, i killed my first fire imp, must be valuable, I'll butcher it."

2 minutes later: "Smoke in my food store? Fu... The booze is on fire!"

20 minutes and some useless efforts to save the situation later: the last tantrum-crippled dwarf dies of thirst

*sigh*