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Naked dwarves remove the need to produce more clothing, which means more of your pig tails can be brewed into booze.

I think this is less a problem and more an expression of dwarven priorities.

This suggestion comes in two flavors:

1. Insufficiently skilled diagnostic dwarves decide to schedule healthy dwarves for surgery, perhaps more frequently when existing injured dwarves have been poorly diagnosed.and the "doc" has a poor memory.

2. the player could schedule dwarves for surgery to their specifications. In addition to clearing up a lot of the bugs wherein injured dwarves aren't treated, this would allow players with a more radical bent to schedule their military dwarves to have their body fat and extraneous organs removed so they'd move faster, or perhaps have their sensory nerves removed to make them immune to pain.

I've found that it's an exceptionally thorny problem. For instance, workshops: if you want all 30 workshops that come by replacing all workshops using fuel with the magma equivalent, you need 9*27 + 75 = 318 spaces, limiting you to a 7x7x7 cube. However, not all workshops need to be in place simultaneously, so it becomes a problem of logistics rather than space efficiency. You get similar issues with dining and bedroom space, stockpile space, etc, and it's such a simple adjustment to the typical fortress design process that it seems akin to reinventing the wheel to try to work without knowledge of the inevitable previous attempts.

I've built big before, and now I'm trying to go the other way and build extremely tiny fortresses, usually cube-shaped. 10x10x10, 9x9x9, 8x8x8, and just started 7x7x7. It makes it more Fun when syndrome-carrying beasts or fire enter the fort.

So how small have you gone? What problems have you found to be unique to or exacerbated by minute forts?

So now the new gold standard of military personnel is a pain-immune scar-covered dwarf (do scars improve the capabilities of skin as armor?) who "just doesn't care about anything anymore" and is shy such a significant portion of their anatomy that they move faster?

If ever we get the chance to designate surgical operations on healthy dwarves, Armok help the goblins. Of course, by "help" i mean "kill before they fall apart blubbering on seeing the perfect military dwarf".

It really depends on what you want to do. Blunt weapons will (partially) disable an enemy rather quickly by immobilizing them, but take forever to kill it because you can only really kill by bleeding or decapitation. Axes/swords tend to cause more bleeding but the target stays moving longer because cuts can't jump through skin and fat to tear muscle as easily, and spears are just too unpredictable for my taste so ive not tested them as thoroughly.

I tend to have a squad of hammerdwarves run out and give everyone enough broken bones/spines for my axedwarves to run around and exsanguinate their barely conscious bodies,and it works on armored and unarmored foes alike.

When we get internal bleeding, I expect hammers to rise to the fore of dwarven handheld weapons technology.

Wouldn't revealing everything spam "praise the miners!" and "we have struck x!" messages?

It does not, thankfully. However, running the game unpaused with everything revealed triggers spoiler events.

Well, it might also be worth trying removing the ground the guts are on. Get them to stand still, and channel away the ground around them.

And they should be fine from starvation. From the description, it seems that while they were disembowelled, the intestines are intact

Quite. I was referring to the theory that the removal of the guts would be as quickly fatal as the removal of other major organs, e.g. anything in the cardiopulmonary system. Then again, anything I say about the relative survival values of the named organs is likely to change in the near future if and when injuries are modified to be more, well, injurious.

And I did try channeling. it looks like the last two tiles the dwarf walks on show up as guts.