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Armok should pray to his gods, for the mercy that I never get a grip on his lousy beard.

What the hell does "Pregnantscream" mean?

If your seeds aren't being planted fast enough, then you need more farmers. Simple as that.

I've never had an issue with food shortages though. I've had a few booze shortages, but I resolved them. I find that food is just really easy to acquire when you have multiple sources. If you don't do this already, you should try investing some points in breeding animals at embark and then slaughter their young.

On the subject of useless migrants, I never have a problem with them. But that's probably because I don't specialize as much as other people. For example, I don;t have any fish dissectors. They get turned into cooks, which has them do more jobs than just fish dissection (though that is a full time job for most of my cooks right now). Otherwise I just have my migrants join the masons or haulers club. Can't have enough masons.

Last time I got one, he died of thirst despite being freed from the cage. How do you keep them alive?

How do i start Fortress as human? The article on wiki says me to add the tag to race in objects/entity.. will it work?
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:Human

You would need to add the [CIV CONTROLLABLE] tag to the human entity. Then on the embark screen, press tab until you are viewing the civilizations screen and scroll through the civs until you find a human one. Then you're playing as humans.

I think. I haven't actually done this myself.

You know, I was beginning to think these Elk Birds were just an annoyance. They were killed easily, and all they really did was bother my workers before the military showed up.

But now one of them just snapped my Engravers spine.

I don't care to much though. He was part of a migrant wave that just arrived, consisting of 23 dwarves. I mean come on  . Managing all of that is a pain, even with Therapist.

How could he get Centaurs and Chimeras without modding? They don't actually "exist" in the game.

Well some of the skills you want to embark with are dependent upon were you are embarking. But in general, you'll always want a miner (or 2). If you're going to be farming, you'll also want someone skilled in farming. I'd also embark with at least one pair of breeding animals. Butchery can be a good source of food.

I use the vanilla graphics. My main problem with all the tile sets I've seen is that they try to fit to much detail into in each sprite. Everything ends up looking cluttered and confusing. After playing with it for a while, I actually find the standard appearance to be very appealing it. The simplicity of it is very nice, plus it lets me use my imagination.