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I got a reply from Zaik, he's on the case!

I actually like the idea that was stated earlier, that a strange mood could procedurally generate a new alloy, weapon, craft, etc.  Furnace operating -> alloy mood. Cooking -> meal mood. Brewing -> drink mood. Once the mood finishes, you can now make the new item at the appropriate workshop.

 Mooded alloys could come in sharp (makes bladed weapons), heavy (makes.blunt weapons and bolts), tough (makes armor), and valuable or beautiful (makes crafts and furniture).  Or it could take the best values from each component...there are all sorts of options.  Mooded food recipes might require specific components, but provide more valuable/higher happiness foods. Same for drinks.

Procedurally generated craft recipes might have a higher value multiplier (but again, a more specific recipe).  Procedurally generated weapons and armor would probably be a huge pain.

Of course, procedural recipes would require recoding workshops and stuff, since at the moment you need to create a new world to add a reaction.

Just got to mid summer takes so long lol

Are we going to see a writeup here in a bit?

This is how I deal with goblins.

I just finished my own magma defense system.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The first pressure plate is activated by enemies, and opens a floodgate (1).  This is supplied by pressurized water in a tank above it.
At 6-7/7 water, that pressure plate opens hatches in the lava reservoir (Which is 2 z-levels high) and raises the drainage drawbridge (2, 3).
This floods the hall in question with magma.
Once the magma reaches 3/7 or higher, it opens the drainage floodgate (4).  This drains the water out of the system, closing the hatches and lowering the bridge, allowing the hall to drain.

I have multiple parallel halls because magma takes some time to evaporate.

There are override levers to turn off the magma defense for any hall (the top levers in the top-right control) and levers to lift the drawbridges to block off any hall for, say, retrieval of goblinite (the lower levers in the same).

It's not anywhere near perfect.  The safety bridges mean building destroyers dance around a lot before entering, which is annoying (there's a safety dance joke there somewhere...).  The reservior fills too slowly (I need pumps for it), and I had to dig around a bridge-safed alternate route for when they ALL fill up with magma and I still have a siege.  Also, a 'combat room' so when I send my military out it doesn't run off behind corners with no backup.

I plan to take this design to the next level by 1) Using more of them, 2) Having a nice large LOS-blocking room with marksdwarf access for soldiers to slaughter sieges and 3) Building a mechanism that'll flood from the entrance down to the grates with magma, to properly cleanse it all.

Yes, if you use runesmith to remove the last siege unit it won't properly change the flag.

I have not been able to catch fish in caverns in 31.x.
I rarely find fish aboveground in non-brook/stream/river aboveground water tiles.
Basically, if you want fish, you need flowing water aboveground.

Too much farm plot area will actually hurt your production as dwarves spend too much time planting and not enough time harvesting or processing.