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I found a nice place, there's forests, mountains, flux, an obsidian layer, and and a volcano.

The thing is the forests are your regular forest, then it jumps right to the highest type of mountain with no in-between, the cliff is 60 z-levels tall, and only about half way up does it start to recede into the volcano. The bottom half is effectively sheer.

It's pretty cool, and the first time I've ever had this happen.

Not really any reason, I'm just wondering. Personally I prefer Temperate or Cold, you don't need to worry about the effects of temperature on your dorfs, and you still get ice. And it feels very much like home when I'm in a cold forest.

Here's a link

http://ca.movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-twitter-campaign-wants-community-actor-to-be-first-non-white-spider-man.html

I think that this would be pretty cool, personally, I'd pick Chris Rock, what about you?

So I'm going to start a fort in a pretty nice place, there's a brook, volcano, and plenty of trees. My plan  is to start two industries, metal, and meat, the meat being the topic of this thread.

1. Is it possible to get mules through breeding? I know that they only appear as male because they're sterile in game and real life, but a mule is a combination of a donkey and horse, if both are present will I get mules ever?

2. I know caging an animal stops breeding, but what about ropes?

3. How should I designate slaughtering? 1 animal at a time to give my tanner time to tan the hide? Or should I get more tanners and just butcher them all at once?

4. I don't plan on making soap, is fat worth the time and resources?

5. Is milk that great a trade good? Should I bother, I dislike micromanaging.

Help would be greatly appreciated, I'm new to the meat industry. (But not DF)

I know that cows are usually what people use for animal industries, plus whatever stuff they have extra, but I was thinking, what about cats? Do they breed fast enough to make them more worth while than cows? And I know that they provide more skin because of their greater numbers, the only problem is their adoption of dorfs.

Alternatively is there an animal that breeds as fast (or close to) cats, that won't adopt your dorfs? Because they could be equally effective.

So I just started, my guy is a Competent Swordsman and Fighter, and an Adept Thrower, and he's got a two-handed sword in one hand, and a shield in the other. Is he going to take a penalty for holding it in one hand? Abnd will he be better if he's two handed?

Here's my arguement:

You hit someone with a sword/axe/insertsharpobject, they will be badly cut, and will start to bleed out/loose limbs. But if you hit someone with a warhammer/baseballbat/insertsomethingblunt, you're probly not going to do nearly the same damage, sure they'll get knocked back, mabey break bones, definitly get a nasty bruise, but unless the broken bone pirces a vein/artery it's not going to make them bleed out, and it's not going to be that life threatening (Realitive to a sword, etc.)

Really the only thing needing fixing is the unkillables, and the fact that you don't really die from burns or organ failure.

I apologize if I am mis-interpreting people's difficulties with the system, mabey everyone has already seen this, but I don't think so.

1. I am proceeding to rob them blind. If I take all their stuff and deconstruct all their buildings will they be mad? And will they stick around? I remember in 40d they wouldn't care and would act as free guards, but I want to be sure. EDIT:: Will they take my stuff?

2. Humans AND dwarves? The leader is a human, but the guy that hangs around in the town hall with him is a Legendary Hammerdwarf with quite a history, and about half the population is dwarves. I know you can get odd diplomats/leaders (Had a fun monster as the leader/diplomat of some humans) but mixed towns?  Is this normal or a bug?

3. Should these dwarves be sacrificed to Armok for associating with humans? Or should they be kept alive, because there's 30 of them, and they're all competent weapon users, and I wouldn't need a military (My population cap is 20)