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I think dwarves who arn't seen for a while should definitely be defined as "Missing" as far as the player is concerned and not be viewable on the units list (and all the other things the real MIA dwarves do) except the "Missing" dwarves are handled internally within the game as being invisible, like ambush attackers/creatures are. So internally, there are the MIA dwarves who really are in trouble, and the "Unseen" dwarves who just havn't been seen for a while but are perfectly fine and still operate within the fort.

So using the example of a dwarf that's been walled up in a room with a farm, if there were levers in the room and the player ordered them pulled, they would eventually be pulled because the dwarf inside was presumably still alive and got the job order the lever put out. The farm would also be planted, with seeds, plants and barrels moved around as well... But the player, if he watched the area continually, would only see a barrel disappear from a stockpile and re-appear in another; he would never be able to actually zoom to that dwarf until that dwarf was "found" again.
Also presumably, if that lever in the room released a damaging but not lethal creature, the player would observe spatters of blood being generated seemingly from thin-air within the room; and because the player can't view or look or otherwise see the dwarf at all, their condition would be unknown -- at which point the "unseen" dwarf can become a real "MIA" dwarf.

So, i started a new game and went down into the basement, where i found a

So, Whales is putting things into updates and not telling us about it... Not exactly good practice (if it was bugged, you would never know because you never told anyone it was there) but as long as it's this kind of pleasant laughter-inducing surprise, i'm happy with it.

this is... kind of true, give it some ice and you can get a refrigerator, or you could sell it for a tower-cap barrel.

you can not sell artifacts, and why would you want to when a dwarf has made a barrel that will never melt or burn if the booze stockpile suddenly gets raised to alcohol-boiling temperature for whatever reason.

even if it was never much of a worry, you'll never have to worry about losing all your barrels; you'll always have one.

Someone tell me if this is correct:

1 Dwarves start as members and allies of their "Parent Civilization" or "+PC"
2 Dwarves that start in the fortress or migrate to it become a part of that "Fortress Group" possibly leaving their "Civilization Group" behind them or taking it with them.
3 The starting seven could be said to be "+PC/+FG" being allied to their parent civ and their fortress group.
4 Then a dwarf betrays their civ faction, becomming an enemy and thus "-PC/+FG"
Other +PC dwarves see there's a -PC dwarf around, and attack him but don't realise they're both +FG.
5 The +PC/+FG dwarf attacking the -PC/+FG dwarf becomes a +PC/-FG dwarf, and the battle lines are drawn in the sand.

So to me, if the above is true, it would seem that the best way to "flip" the fortress into a full-blown rebel city-state would be to have every dwarf in the fortress attack a +PC member of a caravan, and then immediately and totally isolate that -PG/+FG dwarf until all other dwarves are also -PG/+FG; assuming of course -PG dwarves don't attack other -PG dwarves, assuming further that their +FG state will override their civ-enemy status, or even be supplanted by their new fortress-group-formed-civilization status

Brook tiles are unique in that they act like fortifications letting water pass through them, but also have a special animated tile on top that's walkable. Building constructions on the level with the animated surface will do NOTHING to stop the water. You must go down a zlevel, and build your dam there when the river freezes in the winter (if it freezes) and do not think you can cave-in some constructions to block the river; constructions destroy themselves back to their base material when caved-in.

To clarify: Is it actually written out or does the game just tell you that is how long it is?

Seconding the request for an answer to this. We must know...

Can we read the contents of a book whatever the size of it? Does it function like an in-game legends mode viewer that's highly specific to a single creature?

... If the weight of a book is based on the number of pages it has, can a book contain so many pages, that the player can not lift it without being heavilly slowed?
If reading speed is influenced by your movement speed, and you're moving at a crawl, and it takes a long time to read just one page... "Oh i'll just read this b-" *You have starved to death*

The Armor system still screws with my head. What would be the "perfect" set of armor made from Bone, Leather, or Wood?

Bone and shell are basically interchangeable. Everything that can be made from bone should be made from bone, meanwhile everything else that bone can not be made from, should be made from leather instead. [Greaves should be prioritized over leggings, and shields should be prioritized over bucklers.] The shield should be made from the densest material you have, which will likely be wood, because while the materials of the shield are not accounted for protection they ARE accounted for SHIELD BASH attacks.

Wooden Shield of densest available wood
Bone Helmet
Bone Gauntlets
Bone Greaves
Leather for everything else (scroll down for the most effective armoring setups -- for an adventurer, DFmode military might bug out /be confused about how to wear those 6 cloaks you ordered them to wear...)

Wood density list, copy/pasted from the wiki with a bit of editing for readability:
All other types of wood are less dense then these. For hastes' sake, the best shield you can generally have without doing anything special or interesting is a shield made from maple wood.

Bug with the windows port:
Using a sewing kit to reinforce a clothing doesn't use charges from the kit when you succeed in reinforcing the item. This bug might also apply to repairing the damage on clothing and not just reinforcement. (Crafting something does take charges though, so that works)

edit - Bug 2 with windows port: MASSIVE, SERIOUS GAMEPLAY BUG
Crafting things from the floor (maybe not even just the floor) causes every single resource item in that crafting action to be consumed. You can smash 3 doors that are close together, get more then ten 2x4s, go to craft crossbow bolts and all of the 2x4s get used to make a single "Crossbow Bolt (15)"