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I am speechless. And embarrassed. And grateful.

Yup. 600 or so. Just keep that bastard smith busy and he'll be legendary in no time. Also, if you just want maximum quality weapons, look for a dorf that prefers certain materials or weapons, then start training that dorf in weaponsmithing. Their individual likes and dislikes are in their profiles.

What do you even do with all the barrels of blood?  They creep me out so I haven't been buying any.

Maybe they will be usable in cooking in the future, if they aren't already? Animal blood is used in preparation of some meals. Such as black pudding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding

- Once saw a goblin get hit by a dwarf so hard that it flew 10-20 tiles away and landed on a tree 1 z-level below. Had to chop down the tree to access its stuff.

- OH, and this one time I gave a bottomless chasm a bottom, i.e. constructed a floor to cover it, as low as possible. The floor included a 1x1 tile hatch connected to a lever. I then filled the chasm with water. This was all supposed to be a big swimming school but I wasn't aware that dorfs couldn't cross z-levels by swimming... Anyway, several drownings later I used the hatch which essentially acted as a giant bathtub plug. Pulled the lever and that DAMN PIT WAS DRAINED IN SECONDS while it took hours to fill. All that water through a 1x1 hole. In seconds. I learned so much that day.

The default guitar track is so nice. Wish there was more than just that one track. I suppose some lazy spaghetti western or desert/wasteland guitar tracks might work as well? A la Fallout New Vegas?

Most of my games are hermit forts and this is... well, not that new challenge. Fun regardless! Although considering everyone else as enemy is a new twist to me. Once I locked out the rest 6 while the Urist McChosenOne continued living underground. Unhappy thoughts started to accumulate to the 6 and eventually few went mad and got themselves killed. However, few of them, and many of the immigrants actually seemed to survive indefinitely outside. But I blame the temperate environment that I chose. There were puddles of water and various small critters they consumed. Since merchants didn't have access to a trade depot, some got soon killed one way or the other, along with their pack mules. Eventually the fort surroundings become so cluttered with items that you are forced to abandon the game. Even if you organize things so that their deaths happen in orderly fashion, you will spent a great deal of time carrying the items around. So [SPEED:300] is very much recommended. Note that half of the time your hermit dwarf will spend standing around and figuring out what to do next, even if there's a ton of things to do. Maybe this is the problem? Idk.

Carrying one item at a time per dwarf is a severe limitation. And the lack of certain commodities may drive you to ragequit and start over. Also, if you don't want to personally kill the 6, pick an environment where there's little food, or a high number of predators outside. It's kinda shame that you can't control the dwarf directly...

I personally hate about veins that you have to designate the tiles to mine pretty much one or two at a time. Dorfs can't be commanded to mine entire veins at once.

Draining a volcano sounds awesome no matter how you look at it. Do it. Flood the world with magma. The trees and bushes will grow back... I think.