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Did you replace all these tags in the raw files for your active world, rather than the default "raw" folder?

If the river freezes, it will destroy the corpse (ice automatically destroys most objects, except for metal ones, if I recall correctly.)  The only way to recover the body is to stop the water flow so dwarves can walk through it safely.  You're better off using an engraved slab as a memorial.

That would actually be more complicated, since you would need to do custom hands that are attached to the [UPPERBODY] rather than the default (which are attached to arms or upper arms or what have you.)  Also, that would mean that you would get combat report messages about horses having their hands cut off, which would be... weird.

My current fortress plans are haphazard at best, and disastrous at worst.  No real security considerations (well, I've begun making a courtyard wall around the entryway to keep the badgers away from my alpacas, but the doors won't really hold up if a troll comes along), poor planning, no optimization.  It makes things Fun when I open up the caverns and crundles are running through my bird rooms.

I generally have wide floors organized on one vertical shaft.  One floor has all sorts of bedrooms, one has farms and dining and bird rooms, one has shops and stockpiles and the trade depot... in general, it's a mess.  Which is fun, but frustrating.  I am bad at planning.

I once had a multi-hour conversation with a friend of mine that ended in a theoretical situation to create a Pokemon-world out of a modern world that involved black market genetic engineering, world domination with psychically-controlled beasts that could be commanded to stay out of certain boundaries and thus create the magically safe towns, and the Pokemon League's Elite Four being a puppet figurehead front for a networked organization that controls the entire world's population with the lingering terror of previous generations' memories of when Pokemon ran rampant and killed millions, depleting the planet's human count down to its current number.

Mostly because I always latched on to the more violent Pokemon descriptions, like Froslass's which informs us that she likes to freeze victims and arrange them like grisly trophies in her secret icy lair, or the numerous ones who eat souls/fear/pain/misery or cause endless nightmares or a burn that never heals, etc. etc.  It made a good backing for a grimdark Nuzlocke run which I will finish and write out someday.

Also, this LP is great fun, and I look forward to seeing more.  I'm pretty far into my own White version, and I will be amused to see the reactions to some of the... things... that happen.

Quote from: KurzedMetal on June 23, 2011, 04:52:29 pm

Quote from: IT 000 on June 23, 2011, 04:46:23 pm

I think the point is to kill the bird so that the butchers grab the corpse.

Good point, one less micromanaged task (mark them to slaughter)
Anyways i asked the other 2 questions just to satiate my curiosity, the mechanism is great, exactly what i was looking for.

I believe that tame animals have to be specifically slaughtered, otherwise they will not be butchered.

Correct.  Tame animals that are killed by anything other than a menu-designated slaughtering will be put in a stockpile and ignored forever.

I do believe the [PRODUCT:100:1] line means you have 100% chance to produce 1 bed, since some reactions (making metal bars out of ores) can produce more than one kind of metal at different ratios.  Or else it means you produce 100% of a bed with every reaction, I forget whether it works by chance or by "once you've gathered enough for 100% of the product it makes one" for those other reactions.  Either way, 100 = you will always get 1 of that product.

As for the skill, it can be whatever skill you want.  It just means that when the dwarf tries to make that object, they'll use/practice that particular skill.