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DF is more processor heavy than memory IIRC. Someone with more knoledge than me on tablet processors and heat dissipation could probably expand this more.

There's nothing to expand on really. Tablet processors are utter shit and are generally better for threaded programs.

Note: Requires Micro$hit .NET 3.5

You just lost multiplatform support and made a lot of people sad.

METEORITES!

Actually doable i think. Create a random sized explosive mass which would fall every once in a while. Would be fun to live in year 1051 in a HUGE meteorite crater created in year 562 which wiped out the local elf population on that subcontinent...

Have dwarfs go into strange moods ("The end is nigh!") a year or so before a major meteorite hits on or near your fortress.

Have some of the meteorites have a chance of introducing alien wildlife to your dwarfia (i.e. megabeasts and semi-megabeasts).


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I'm not really sure how the whole pressurized deal works, but could you theoretically pump magma to the top of a fort using a single pump, pumping magma into a 1x1 flight of stairs?  You only need a little magma for forges, so I could just pump what I need and cap it off with a floodgate if it works.

In case this really comprehensive guide (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Pump) doesn't help you...
The answer is no, if you want to get magma up from -50 to -5 then you have to build 44 pumps.

Forgotten beasts really are the best, the name is normal but check the creature type:

1. Dwarf Fortress is a fun game and should always stay fun. Loosing your left ring finger and 2 tooths while ripping out a goblin spine is fun. Farming on 26 z levels is not.
Dwarves are fantasy beings, they are not humans. That is to say - maybe they don't need vitamin C at all? Or if they do - maybe their beards convert argon gas into vitamin C.
I only want Dwarf Fortress to be realistic as long as it is still fun.

2. I don't want dwarven fortresses to rely on trade or any outside contact. I embarked on a 2x2 terryfing area, my Axedwarf was immedately drafted into military, fighting off Skeletal and Zombie mountain goats while the other 6 were frantically trying to move goods underground. My dwarves barely managed to seal themselves underground when skeletal giant eagles and skeletal yetis arrived. Unfortunately the Axedwarf was ripped to shreds, his sacrifice bought the others their life. The 6 dwarves lived on their own for 6 YEARS. All immigrants were mercilessly slaughtered by local undead wildlife and goblin ambushes ("Immigrants have come, despite the danger" -> "An ambush!"-> "An ambush!"-> "An ambush!" immigrants + fucking three ambushes AT THE SAME TIME). The seventh year was the first time i saw immigrants but no other dangerous wildlife on the map so i instructed them to pick up some of the better stuff the merchants had dropped and then sealed the now 26 dwarves in. During the first 6 years my few dwarves managed to utilize a river to make a small patch muddy for farming and then mined a whole Z level and made that muddy too, to grow plants and trees.
All this would have been impossible when dwarves would rely on trade (never had a trader survive on my map long enough to reach the depot).