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Sieges will block the arrival of caravans.

Set your population cap to zero. You'll get two or so waves, which should leave you at under twenty immigrants (including the first seven). The d_init settings for children explains what the fields all relate to, but

This allows you to control the number of babies+children in your fortress.  The first number is an absolute cap on the number of babies+children.  The second is a percentage of the current number of adults in your fortress (the default is the essentially meaningless 1000% here).  The lower number is used as the cap.  The cap only prevents further pregancies, so migrant children, multiple births and existing pregnancies from old saves can still push you over the cap.  Setting either number to zero will disallow pregnancies in the fortress.

BABY_CHILD_CAP:100:22 would give you an absolute cap of one-hundred children, and at most twenty-two percent of the adult population, for example.

O, are there .... applications .... for this artifact as relates to Justice?

Dear dwarves:

You know there's a terrifying necrotic disease going around the fort. You know that it came from that horrible, horrible chickadee monster — the doctors have their observations. You know that there are pools of extract around. Why can't you put it all together and

a) avoid the damned puddles
b) clean up the damned puddles
c) be quicker with the damned surgery!

I'm surprised there's anything left of any of your feet!

This is almost too horrifying to bear. And, c'mon, doctors .... get your colleagues on their feet first. The farmers and children can wait!

During standard alerts, I'll have a variable five-fifteen percent of the population at idle. I mass-designate items to be dumped, though, to keep a lot of inconsistently-busy dwarves moving. It's usually easy to find a lot of something that needs to go somewhere, in my experience.

A great way to generate hauling jobs, at least, is to narrow stockpiles from general to more specific. I am very stringent with population limits — I prefer to have some infrastructure in place before the waves of unemployed arrive.

It probably depends a lot on how one prefers to allocate labors, though. I have few dedicated haulers; instead, I tend to assign a few (three-five) of the hauling categories to a dwarf, which are generally related to the field it works in. "Item" usually means less otherwise, as it is a broad category. Food, too, since I want food to get where it's going before it spoils. Burial is left for the some of the medics. Refuse is for the chronically idle. Idling becomes more of an issue when an alert is triggered, as the restriction usually means whole industries are outside the permitted burrow.

Masonry. If nothing else, block fabrication can keep quite a few of the rotters busy.

NEED MOAR PITCHBLENDE

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The reason why Goblins currently just war with you endlessly is to keep the game interesting for now

[cough]they already send diplomats and offer peace[/cough]

[cough] [BABYSNATCHER] [cough]

Colossal waste of time?! A video game? Noooooo.

I'm not saying that stand-alone play is more elite than third-party assistance.

All I'm saying is that I've been able to accomplish whatever I set out to do. Without 'em. So, no, it's not unplayable stand-alone.

Why not prebundle macros set to designate particular fortress designs (or whatever else they're used for; I've not even used those all that much)?

I rarely have to modify labors on any massive scale, anyway, so that may be why I don't see the value. The worst I've had to deal with was drafting a lot into surgery lately (augh necrotic-gas FBs!), and that took me ... five minutes? I guess a good memory goes a long ways.

Also, when viewing a dwarf and looking at its labor preferences, doesn't SHIFT+Enter or somesuch en-/disable a whole tree?