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I've run into this kind of thing too. Dwarves have strange priorities when it comes to stockpiling stuff. They'll completely fill up a stockpile with mugs... and not even touch the four hundred empty bins despite none of them being reserved. But once they're done stockpiling the mugs, THEN they'll start taking them out of the stockpiles and filling bins with them, then put the bins in the stockpile.

It's incredibly annoying, yes. All I can suggest is to stop production on whatever it is they're not storing in bins/barrels for a little while so they can catch up.

Dwarves can adopt captured vermin like fireflies, squirrels, mice, lungfish, etc. as pets. They'll carry them around in their inventory. I believe you have to mark them as adoptable from the animals subsection of the stocks screen, but I'm not 100% sure though, since it's been a while since I've bothered with that.

No.

No,  no, no, no, no, NO.

Absolutely not.

You could always drown or smash them.

Do levers put into a room increase it's value? Do they count as belonging to the room owner?

Yes to the first, and "sort of" to the second. They'll 'belong' to him in the same way statues in his room will 'belong' to him. He won't be the only person able to pull it (unless you open the lever's profile and set him as the only person allowed to pull it.)

An easy if time-consuming way to indefinitely increase the value of a room is to put a lever and a floodgate in it and queue up a job to hook the lever up to the floodgate ten times (you'll have to do this all at once, since once a lever is linked to something you can't enter the command to connect it to the same thing again.) Once that's done, deconstruct the floodgate, and you'll get the ten mechanisms used in its construction back, but the mechanisms in the lever will still be there and counted towards the room's value. Set up the floodgate again and you'll be able to link the lever to it again, to add another ten mechanisms (and their sum value) to the lever (and room.)

I call it 'industrial art.'

Yes, that guide was written for the old 40d version.

The biggest differences between 40d and the most recent versions are:
- Totally redone military and injury systems.
- 2010 versions have burrows and underground caverns.
- 40d limited the number of Z-levels below the lowest surface tile on the map to 15, while the 2010 updates can have upwards of a hundred.
- 40d had very few underground features (underground pools and rivers of magma or water, and cotton candy- no caverns to speak of.)
- 2010 versions have a CRAPTON of bugs. 40d had bugs, but they were of the annoying variety, not the game destroyers that the 2010 versions throw at you.

Nnnnnnnnnnnno. No, no, no no no.

Dear god no. The emptyness of directed goals is game killing. Suddenly you are no longer trying to harvest mermaids because you can, your doing it untill you get a little 'Achivment unlocked' message.

The Xbox achivments are without question the worst feature of that system.

Put it better than I could.

Overkill much?

There is no overkill, just results exceeding expectations.