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I think there should be a draft and a salary cap.

Well, not really, but I could see a game inspired by Dwarf Fortress – a space-base game, perhaps – having Draft Day vs. all the other space bases and it being a ton of fun.

My offer still stands! 

(Ugh, I'm stuck at level 50, trying to save up 75k so I can comfortably move to the next area. The last time I got close, some damn priest for a quest hit me up for 40k. Grrr.)

Oh, hi, new fisherdwarf! What, you know how to do just about everything else? That's great! You've lived in 20 other places? Fantastic! You killed somebody a hundred years before you were born? Amazing! We're going to put you in an elite squad, and your first mission is to stand right here on this pier – yes, right over the volcano, don't worry – and we're just going to lock this here door, and don't you worry about the chipping sounds you may hear just outside the door, that's perfectly normal too!

(6 hours later)

Oh, hi, everyone! Guess we should build some more safety walls around the side of the volcano, so in case we have to drop a suspicious dwarf in, we don't cause a cloud of smoking dust that knocks three other presumably innocent dwarves, including one of the founding miners, right into the lava! Stone blocks falling into lava generate smoke and dust, who knew, hahaha! Ok Urist gimme that sewer brew and leave me alone for the rest of the month.

Additions to my previous list:

- never intentionally had the king arrive (I have a fort with adamantine in .40d, and of course the king showed up then)
- never had a fell mood
- never have done a full evil embark (I've done half evil embarks a couple of times)
- never had a necromancer siege (I started a community fort that wound up having one, but I never dealt with it)
- never had the elves attack me (I keep things friendly, although in 34.11 the elves are significantly less profitable than in 31.25)
- never performed a reclaim
- never yet built more than a few safe pastures (I just toss the animals out there to catch goblin ambushes, safe pastures are the last thing on my priority list pretty much)
- never made a GCS farm or even captured one
- never taken one of those swords from the depths (and actually, I have four forts now in 34.11 and none of them have one)
- if I've fought a bronze colossus, it was so long ago I don't remember it, and I don't feel like going through all my old saves to check
- never gotten killed by a carp
- never gotten killed by an elephant

The mountainhome is informing me it will pay premium prices for... clear glass tools.

I don't know what to do with this information.

(also there are flying lungfish but I am to understand this is old news to everyone but me)

Why would you want a hard coded attack. As a general rule, everything in Df strives to be as procedural as possible.

I take your point, but predators go where prey are sitting around, so it makes as much sense to have predators target a fort with pastured animals as it does for goblins to steal and ambush and siege the place. If all that is achieved procedurally, then great.

Here is what you have to do with armor now. You have to designate everything you want the soldier dwarf to be wearing, and then you have to choose the option to r: Replace clothing instead of r: Over clothing. Then they will change clothes and put on their armor (and any other clothes you designate in the equipment screen) including helms and gauntlets and boots. They no longer put helms and gauntlets and boots on over their civilian clothes by default. Pretty sure that's a bug, and it's annoying, but you can work around it.