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Sorry, I can't resist linking a video about cattle prods.  There are LOTS of videos of people using cattle prods on themselves and others.  Pretty crazy.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlLnjOST-is&NR=1&feature=fvwp

I think a cattle prod might be useful, not sure how portable it would be, or how legal.

I need to make some memorials, but I can't. Where is the option to do so? All I can place is slabs.

First make a slab, (mason shop)

Then engrave the slab (craftdwarf shop)

Then place the engraved slab


I think you have to expand the slab list to see which ones are engraved, been a while since I needed one.

Personally, I can out aggressive any non-trained dog or dogs because I have no fear of them if there are less than three or four, and they can smell it.  I probably couldn't manage more than 4 medium sized dogs because I would start to be concerned, and, again, they will smell it.

Sounds as if you aren't at much risk, but your wife is.

I'd suggest mace and a friggin loud airhorn.

Failing all of that carry a shockstick (the below links are examples, I have no suggestions to make for products)

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&lr=&q=air+horn&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=91777244215129775&sa=X&ei=CBygTYPJEMSCgAeXl_TZBQ&ved=0CEgQ8wIwBA#

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/433931334/Electric_Shock_Stick_BR_09.html

If you wake people up almost every night, in the middle of the night with a massive airhorn blast (and make sure to spray their doors with mace when you spray the dogs) they might start to seriously consider taking care of the dog problem.

If the shock stick worries you, carry a baseball bat or a golf club

Haha mmkay, thanks for the help ^_^. Kinda annoying to see those dogs follow my hunter everywhere though

haha I made the mistake once of having one dwarven hunter train every one of my war dogs for a few years.

Every time he left to go hunting, 100+ dogs would follow him.  I ended up having to make a bunch of ropes, assign the dogs, and started making lots of puppy leather bags.

Ever since I saw that goblins would be able to wear troll-wool clothing, I've had this terrible fascination as to what a troll really looks like. 

Seeing that I sent a donation to DF today, I'm going to ask that instead of sending me a crayon drawing by mail, post here a link to a drawing of a typical scene of goblins shearing troll wool.  Since I have seen the crayon art, I'll be perfectly fine with someone else doing the drawing, if it's indicated that someone else's work supports the image as a decent representation.

I've sent a forum message with a link to this thread.

Perhaps some of you artsy folks would like to post up your own images of goblins shearing troll wool in order to save the DF team some crayon work?

Remember, please keep it safe for work 


Bonus points if someone creates a goblin-shearing-troll image in the style of Norman Rockwell!

Goblinite for iron.

Buy every weapon quality metal item the humans or dwarves bring.  Melt down the iron toy forges and steel flutes and make your war machine!

Let our dwarves beat plowshares into swords!

Any way to stop milita deaths from making civilians insane and violent? 2 forts lost because of this MADNESS.

Give dwarves their own stuff in their own rooms and keep the alcohol and food plentiful, and they tend to stay pretty happy.  Especially if you carve their rooms from rock, then engrave them and put a statue in the middle overlapping everything in their room with a statue garden.

It seems that my animals keep starving to death with hundreds of grass tiles still in their pastures. It looks like they eat out the top-left corner of the pasture and promptly die 

I haven't seen this in my pastures at all - is it a pasture from a save in a previous version?  Have you tried removing the zone and recreating it?

Something I used to do which caused me much confusion in the past was create a single-tile zone inside the zone I originally meant to create because I was using extra keystrokes while generating zones - you sure you only have one zone there, not two, with one being a single tile zone?