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Interestingly I think one of the main reasons siege engines don't quite feel 'seigey' is because material damage does not yet exist. The primary purpose of a siege engine is to damage structures and eventually reduce the foe to a course rubble. As of now we just have to hope we hit quickly moving targets.

Not quite true. While many average generals used them this way, all of the great conquerers and empires used catapults and ballistae (and trebucets in the late middle ages) extensively in the field.
Alexander had a higher ration of artillery to his army than any modern army up until 1915. (At times, he had a catapult or ballista for evey three soldiers in his army). Rome used them so extensively that they created variants more useful against soldiers, the Scorpion and the Repeating Ballista (using a two man crew, the latter could fire a clip of bolts in a couple of minutes, while the former was essentially a very large crossbow on a stand). Generally, "siege engines" were used more against troops than fortifications.

Especially if its a large animal that produces large stacks of bones.

I've seen it after my fields froze and thawed.

Do you have a random dead dwarf? Sometimes a migrant will die immediatly onb spawning,which would turn any pets it had into strays, IIRC.

Elves bring wood all the time.

What would be even better is if each wound carried information about who did it (which could be featured in an engraving)

For example:

This is the corpse of Urist MCChampion

There is an arrow wound in his right leg. The arrow was fired by the Elf Pointy McTwinkles.
There is a slash in his right side, resulting from a terrible blow from the sword of the Elf Twinkles McPointy.
HIs skull was crushed by the hammer of Urist McHammerer.

I rarely mess with blood crystal or night crystal, as I almost always have good deposits of both cinnabar and cobaltite. Any crystal I make or buy gets converted to void crystal

What about a boulder? I've never used ramps much.

Also, what's a meme?