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Will they actually give more than 1 lumber yield? I've never recovered more than seemingly one log from an underground tree (compared to the plentiful bounty of outdoor trees) and I thought some of my cavern trees were 2-3z levels.

Well my fort may be doing fine, it's been a rough year for my civilization:

I actually had 2 more friendly trolls show up. One destroyed a door in my cavern wall (I need the door for access to water until I can improve things), but decided to stay where he was in front of the door. Fortunately for me I was planning on putting a bridge there anyways, so I did that with the Troll still there. Now's he's stuck in a pit under my bridge until I decide to raise the bridge for something. He's a cute little fort mascot now. If a FB shows up in that same cavern layer I can make him fight the troll .

Meanwhile more trogs showed up on the surface for some reason (or ran through my fort when I wasn't looking), but some bugged out undead Stork's decided they were tired of standing idle and devoured them all.

The 3rd troll wandered inside and hung around until he too got a dwarven greeting by a passing by miner and his pick.

I start a new fort in an area where the only metal is Gold and Aluminum. Which I'm fine with as there's magma so I have my defenses covered. What I don't have are any early weapons. It's partially an evil biome so even without a strong plan to get a weapon I start a wrestler training so I can have someone with some discipline in case it's needed. A few migrant waves go by and I add a 2nd recruit to the military.

I breach the cavern and setup farms there. Some Trogdolytes come wandering by before the walls finish, but they're passive so it's all fine. Then somehow a fight breaks out. I check in and there are 2 Trogdolytes and 2 of my civilians. I station the military down there as well, as that's what they're for.

Very quickly the Trogdoyltes become very weakened with bruises and openings and all sorts of things of that nature. So they pass out.  Except so do the pulverizing dwarves. I try to force my woodcutter (training axe, but it's something) and miners to get involved, but when I recruit the woodcutter he drops the axe and not wanting to do the same thing with the miner my attempts to get him involved don't go anywhere.

Eventually one trog dies, the other wakes up though and kills 2 unconcious dwarves before I finally bring him down. Of course he manages this while just about his whole body is broken and bruised. Anyways that was quite the ordeal.

I finish the wall, but due to some food issues I'm short on food and leave a door to continue some gathering operations. A troll decides he wants to stroll in. Except he's not hostile either. He wanders the fort a bit scaring himself when he encounters some of my dwarves and I just sort of leave him there since I can't kill him anyways.

Eventually my miner decided he was tired of the troll so as he walked by the troll he stuck his pickaxe in his head a few times, killing the troll without it getting a hit in, and then proceeded on his way.

So to recap... Bloody, beaten, bruised, nauseous, tired trogdolyte: 2 kills. Big bad fully healthy Troll: 0.

In this case does the lever also act as a manual engage if elves something that's trap avoid decides to come through?

Does the lava get to 7/7 if the trap stays engaged for too long?

Seems like a nice design because you should also be able to put a bridge one Z-level up for wagon access and have pretty concise route into your fortress to cover everything.

I have some nice Ottorpeople living in the small stream inhabiting my map. They seem peaceful and content to just hang around in the water. However they're far from idle... their population has nearly doubled in the three years my fort has been in existence. I'm curious if they have a population cap or if they'll just continue to procreate.

Is there any source of water to be found in a dwarf underground fortress? I wandered around a good deal of the fort and couldn't find anything, the underground road only had undrinkable muddy water (unless there is a way to purify it?) and above ground had no accessible streams nearby. I had hiked underground from a ways away to the fort so I basically left a fort with full water, got to a new one and had no available water options which was pretty annoying. Seems like dwarves should have something to drink in their homes...

Yeah not bad suggestions. The problem I have with the current horizontal design is that the options spanning 2 columns and the options spanning 1 column are so intermixed that it visually reduces the clarity of the 2nd column. So you end up not reading the 2 distinct columns nearly as well as you could. This, in effect, feels like it's not only hiding the right options in plain sight, but also making it harder to quickly read the left column.