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I've had many a would-be artifact creator be denied at his request of glass in any form, simply because sand does not exist in any form whatsoever on my map. Its a barren, jagged, rocky wasteland, devoid of any plantlife or sand, and the only water source is a tiny brook that curves in from one corner of the map, and immediately curves back out of the map on the adjacent side, and it freezes for half the year... So, i don't think i can get sand from it either. But i thought dwarves only demanded resources that could be found on the map?

Im pretty sure the hydra and one of the colossus' came during 1065 and the first colossus came in '64 so yeah, its pretty frequent but not all at once, thats not what i meant.

The justice system can do nothing but exacorbate the problem. They will punish tantrumers with beatings and jailing, which will give the tantrumers more unhappy thoughts, or worse, the beatings could be bad enough to kill them and then all of their friends and family's will get super bad unhappy thoughts from that. Take all of your fort guards off of the fortress guard, and remove your captain of the guard too. It might not be a bad idea to try and get your remaining unaffected, or still un-tantruming dwarves to move to a different part of the fort to live in, and build a micro-habitat for themselves that they could self sustain on indefinitely. Thats what i did when i had 100 dwarves tantrum over 8 deaths to starvation causing about 90 deaths or extreme injuries. It will die down eventually, immigration will help, but if you do get immigrants in the middle of it, try to get them to move away with your other unaffected dwarves until its over. The key to rioting is quarantines; if you know someone cant be helped (berserkers/melancholy), and/or if they are tantruming but have no friends or family, lock them in their rooms. Its important to keep dwarves that are destined to die away from the main public; witnessing deaths, and having to walk through their miasma from the rotting bodies, cause strong widespread unhappiness. Hope that helps.

I never made it without biting, ask Mr. Owl.

I love mimes but i hate it when people dont talk to me.

Well when i hear the word roast, i think of like, roasting beef over a fire. I don't know, its just a context thing.

edit: Actually, that one falls under #2, ill try and think of a new one

Heres one everyone can agree to:

#4: Despite being surrounded by even hundreds of armed and trained soldiers, dwarves will stop at nothing to claim free socks from the battlefield.

[ February 11, 2008: Message edited by: ColonelTEE3 ]

[ February 11, 2008: Message edited by: ColonelTEE3 ]

I was always confused about named creatures other than the usual races (gobs dwarves elves etc). Ive seen plenty of named creatures like horses get their names from killing other things, but what makes something qualify as a "resident" to the dwarves?