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You don't need to tell the butcher's shop to butcher the dead animal - it will enqueue the task automatically unless you've disabled it under Standing (o)rders. If you have (r)efuse settings set to collect from (o)utdoors, then you're getting the cancellation message because somebody's busy hauling the corpse to a refuse stockpile. If you're not set to collect refuse from outdoors, you may need to turn it on or your butcher might simply ignore your kill.

Note that you'll also need a tanner's workshop to make leather out of the animal skins.

Incidentally, there are other ways of making bags than hunting wild animals, such as butchering some of your tame animals (horses, cows, and donkeys are livestock unless you explicitly make them available as pets). Another way (which isn't time sensitive) is to grow some pig tails or rope reed, process them at a Farmer's workshop, weave the thread into cloth at a Loom (normally happens automatically), then make plant fiber bags at a Clothier's workshop.

It's an obscure way of referencing them. It was presumably also intended to be amusing.

Walls do not actually destroy their source materials - they'll still show up in Z-Stocks, and if you (f)orbid a construction's building material (whether in Z-Stocks or by using d-b-f) and then designate it for deconstruction, nobody will deconstruct it. Furthermore, if you manage to build a wall out of a material which is on fire (e.g. ‼lignite blocks‼), they'll still be burning after you deconstruct it.

use my automated waste disposal system! (stone crafts float  )

There's actually a bug in 40d with water pushing items around where it causes items to become completely invisible but still actually remain in their location (Z-Stocks will let you zoom to them, but you won't actually see anything there). If you were to use d-b-d within your P.O.R.N.S.T.A.R.S. upper chamber after flushing away some items, you would probably find your dwarves rushing in and picking up items out of nowhere - I've done the same thing after flooding my entrance bridge with magma during a siege and then retracting it to get rid of the magma, where using d-b-c to reclaim the area makes my dwarves run onto the bridge and gather up a bunch of metal items that had apparently gotten stuck floating in midair.

Adamantine boils at 50000 and melts at 25000, though it has an insanely high specific heat, so a ‼clown‼ would probably have to stand on top of adamantine for the better part of a year to ever melt it.

Also, cave-in dust was tested here and was shown to be entirely ineffective. Hell, the OP was even fully aware of that test when he suggested using webs, so there's no point in even considering cave-ins as a means of capturing them - the only thing a cave-in can do to a ‼clown‼ is crush it outright - cave-ins are currently capable of instantly destroying any creature directly underneath them.

Farms and stockpiles will hide flow numbers just like a paved road. As I mentioned, though, paved roads can be (h)idden so as to make the flow numbers visible again.

If you want to catch turtles, all you need to do is dig a channel next to your underground river that leads into a different (48x48) region tile - since you won't be fishing within the underground river itself, the game will think you're fishing from a murky pool instead, giving you turtles.

Quote from: Ziusudra on October 06, 2009, 11:31:40 pm

Trees need unmined soil in the layer below. Shrubs might take a while to show up. How long has it been?

please stop saying that, i've had plenty of trees grow with a rock layer beneath them

Did you have at least 1 unmined soil tile within a certain radius of the tile below said tree? If so, how close was it?