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Build a corridor, 800 tiles long.  Fill it with spikes, ten to a square, and link them to a single lever.

This is the noble's lever.  And thus finally, he shall earn his keep.

11/12 Z-level deep hole designated as a pit.  Set up the cages around the outside, then tell everyone to shuck things into it.

1. First, conceptualize 'floating' not as a process of density vs. density, but as surface pressure vs. surface pressure.

2. The 'floating' levels for various fluids are established constants within a game world.  Once set, they cannot be altered.  This is probably not ideal, but necessary to simplify floating objects in the following fashion:

3. Any time an item is created or modified, the game calculates it's relative surface area vs. mass and determines what fluids it will float in.  As an example: a wood table has a wide area (the table itself) and a fairly low mass (especially lighter woods, like featherwood), and therefore floats.  If encrusted with iron, steel, lead, platinum, gold, and so forth, its mass increases and it stops floating.

4. Another thing to consider is floating vs. submersion.  Once submerged, an object will either sink, rise, or stay the same depending on its actual density to the fluid.  A buoyant object (a featherwood ring, perhaps) is lighter than the water, so it goes to the surface, but doesn't have sufficient surface to float, so it sinks - the result would be that it 'bobs'.  To prevent this from consuming excessive CPU, this sort of thing can be handled either by limiting how fast an object can sink/rise, or by simply setting objects with a lower density than the fluid to float regardless of surface area.
Submerged objects that sink, once they reach the bottom, would stop moving (unless there's a very strong current - but that's something else).  Submerged objects with equal density would move freely with current, but would neither sink or rise.

5. Things that float usually float at the surface.  So, it can just be assumed that the top of the table is even with the top of the 3/7 water layer - unless the table itself is taller than that.  Object height would need to be handled somehow for this to really make a large difference.

I think the main reason adamantine no longer brings the king is because it's included on every map now.

Do you guys see what this is?

THOUGHT!

TACTICS!

THIS is the essence of Dwarf Fortress!  Experimenting!  Trying new and different things!  I think the new combat system is fantastic, if for no other reason than just thinking "Hummn, gonna make some adamantine hammers and play gobbo golf" is less interesting than carefully organizing your militia to use weapons made out of whatever material best suits its own particular destructive purposes.

HOLY CARP. HOLY CARP.

Prepared whale heart [23]
Prepared whale lung [94]
Prepared whale EYE [2]
Prepared whale intestines [142]
Chopped whale liver [47]
Whale tripe [47]
Prepared whale kidney [46]
Prepared whale spleen [23]
Whale sweetbread [23]
Whale fat [160]
Prepared whale brain [47]
Whale meat [434]

Two meals out of the eyes alone. Holy carp.

AND THEY JUST CAUGHT ANOTHER WHALE!

Wait a moment.

Does this mean that with 3 whales worth of meat, you could theoretically make a stack of food with around 1300 units?

Hundreds have fallen before his blade, and hundreds more will fall before he tires of our world and begins to walk the dark corners of the world in search of an opponent that will finally provide him with a challenge.  He is Bim, the Reaper.

And he wants a bit of a break, so he's decided to become a miner for a while.