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I just entered embark, and when I tried to add some skills to a dwarf, I couldn't.  Then I noticed I only had one point to spend.  I checked the items, and they all seemed to be regular items, so I sold them all back, and found I started with 1000 points, rather than the 1274 the wiki seems to say is normal.  Anyone else experienced this?

I settled on a goblin fortress recently, and digging down to the caves I noticed that a tunnel was visible despite it not being open to the air, with one end obscured, which I uncovered, to learn it ends soon after I loose sight of it.

But that's not the funny thing I saw.  I abandoned and came back as an adventurer to investigate the large area with superiorly engraved floors I found in the caves.  I noticed nothing unusual about the area beyond the engraved floors, until I realized the map showed the temple right above me, and the area was the exact shape of the temple.  Heh, bug.

I just managed to find my way as an adventurer through the caves to the great magma sea.  Then I fell in by accident.  I'm now drowning, but noticed that I was getting no wounds.  It took a long time for me to get any wounds, and so far they are very moderate.  It seems it takes too long for magma to heat the adventurer's flesh to the point of burning.  Adventurers should be perfectly able to swim across fairly wide magma rivers before dying.  Maybe longer if they hug blizzardmen first.

I was beating a dragon to death as a bronze colossus when I picked up the statue of one of the previous colossi, and noticed it was a statue of a Yeti instead of a colossus.  I had made some yeti earlier.

Edit: another left a statue of a purring maggot.  Of course, I never made any of them.

I'm trying to build a few floors over the chasm in this fortress, since some resident previously smashed the bridges and took several people's lives with it.  However, if I select a stone of alunite as the first stone, the menu ceases to show any other stones.  It only shows the single first stone as existing, with a distance of --.  Doesn't seem to happen with any other combination of stone selecting.  I figured it might have something to do with that single alunite stone that is on the bit of land between the two holes, which are under floor plans in this picture.

First, the menu...


Then, when I try to pick alunite...


Edit:  Oh yeah, 40d, only mod is catsplosion.

So, I have recently been wandering around, looking for a civ that didn't matter to me much for the purpose of meanness.  I went into a forest retreat to bother some elves, and indeed, there were elves, in the mead hall.  So far, the town seems to be mostly elves, with a few humans.

So, I've been trying to add a fish people civ to my game.  So far, I've only been able to play as one as an adventurer, who can take no skills and has no equipment.  With a recent change, for the hell of it I added the [EQUIPMENT_WAGON] tag to see if I'd start play as a dead wagon.

Instead, I just noticed that something has gone very wrong in my world.  Every time I enter a dwarven settlement, I get messages of everyone being caught in clouds of boiling leather.  Then I get messages that people are freezing to death.  Then I found a cave fish silk sock on a corpse.  To top it off in an ironic way, I just heard a story of a dwarf being killed by the treant Slakga Taxflames the Silvers of Fire's dragon fire.

Is this some issue with my inexperienced modding attempts?

Also, what are some common reasons that a modded civ might not appear?  I'm running out of ideas.

Thanks.

Edit:  And later, I ran into a dwarven civ in an obsidian tower.  I even met the queen, wandering around outside.