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I usually regen a new world for each fort, however...

Usually I'm making a new fort because there's a new version of DF out.

My current project, though, intends to have several forts and adventurers in the same world. Most of them in the same location.

What kind of stairs are you using? (i) Up/Down stairs?

If you're just using Up or Down stairs for multiple levels, he'll dig himself down to a spot he ca'n't get out of.

Also check to make sure he's not in a burro(w) which restricts him from accessing the drink.

<edit> Duh, forgot to include a solution, though it should be obvious - either have him (d)ig some sta(i)rs up/down near your stairwell if it's unclimbable, or have someone else (b)uild -> (C)onstruction -> sta(i)rs up/down in the spot where your incorrect stairs are.

And just now, thanks to Tekkud's heroic efforts, a major milestone has been achieved - each and every one of the poor, departed dwarves from Bronzebanners has been memorialized by an engraved slab or by a grave.

Now the resettlers can turn their eyes and their picks to the future.

Apparently after you reclaim the site they were built in, they don't show up on the (l) Artifacts screen and can be traded.

Interesting.

Unfortunately you ca'n't deconstruct cloth items.

Silk is one of the leading causes of dead moody dwarves in my forts.

You can tell how many of an item is needed (roughly) by how long it is displayed on the 'needs... bars... gleaming' display - the amount of time each item is displayed is relative to how many the dwarf wants (it's really just displaying the same message several times, but it looks like it's being shown once but for a longer time).

Skulls don't count as bone, and if it's not showing on your stocks (z) screen, you don't have them. Make sure the stockpile you are referring to isn't just skulls.

If you don't have any bones, you can always set up an emergency butcher shop, designate a hauler or two as a butcher, chop up something reasonably large (like a yak, cow, horse, or in a really bad situation, a dog) and hope she goes charging off to the butcher shop to grab a bone as soon as the luckless animal is deconstructed.

(You posted that you found the silk while I was typing this; I decided to still post it because some of the other tips are useful in more than one situation.)

A Werehyena just snuck into Veiltomes and tore apart my broker/bookkeeper's skull, before gravely wounding my mechanic and tearing open the hand of my militia commander before being hacked into itty-bitty pieces by my militia.

I'm left to wonder if my militia commander and mechanic are now going to become werehyenas themselves.

My last fort's military went through three cycles of werepantherism being passed from the dying to the killers until I got a group that resisted it and the cycle stopped.

Victory!

Bay12er Pirate Bob's adventurer Tekkud Sirabkul succeeded in ridding the Bronzebanners site of the goblin menace, and the reclamation effort has begun!

There's a post in my blog with the details of the adventure, and soon there will be a new Overseer and a new series of diaries.

Hopefull this attempt will last a LITTLE longer than the last one (yeah, right!)

If you run your minecart under water, it will fill with water.

If you later have it dump into open space, the water will fall as mist.

So if you have a circuit by which carts go through water, fill up, and then ramp up above (for example) your dining hall, and then dump, it'll keep the mist flowing without complex pump systems or potential flooding.