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You should put the butcher's shop outside. So much garbage is generated that it won't fit on your refuse pile anyway, and hauling it away would take a long time. You can dump the parts and atomsmash them, but that would require some micromanagement. I usually don't care about clutter.

There was another thread somewhere with a similar thing. It may be a bug, and it seems to be reproducible. Anyhow, it must be destroying your FPS.

I changed from .12 to .13 yesterday. I got a dwarf possessed today. She collected a lot of items, then made an artifact with no decorations at all. Did anyone else encounter this bug?

Unfortunate limitations create epic solutions

You could create a huge reservoir near the beginning that fills while it's unfrozen, with a series of pressure plates in an underground offshoot from the river to detect when it freezes and begin pumping water from the reservoir into the stream to keep it going. A similar series of pressure plates could be used to turn the pumps back off when it unfreezes.

I love excuses to use mechanisms.

-oso

Sigged.

You have to build something like this:

5 ___>___  <-- This is the room you want to build
4 ###X###
3 ###X###  <-- These are the rock layers below
2 ###X###
1 ___<___  <-- this is the floor you are in

# - wall
_ - floor
> - down stair
< - up stair
X - up/down stair
Suppose you are on floor 1. Chose a point where you want to dig up. If there is a natural wall at this point, designate carving an up stair (d-u). If there is a floor, construct one (b-C-u). On floor 2, just above the up stair (there is probably a natural wall there), designate carving an up/down stair (d-i), and repeat this until you reach the top. On the floor where you want to build your room (floor 5 here), designate your room area for digging (d-d), and a down stair (d-j) on the tile above your up/down stairs.

You can designate everything in one step, you don't have to wait to finish one step to be completed.

When I need muddy terrain for a farm, I usually just breach a murky pool from the side, and let the water spread on the terrain. I use the created muddy area as a farm.

The water comes from an aquifer, and doesn't have natural flow. There are a few tiles of ice up there, though.

I think that for realistic modeling, they should have very low weight but high velocity. I don't know what that does in the game, though.