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Don't have to worry about firearms, since even if you have explosives a gun would still be far off.

Gunpowder weapons go back to the middle ages and predate TNT and dynamite by hundreds of years. Early held devices were very crude, but existent, and don't forget about cannons. A far more crude explosive would still make sense, and would suit gameplay better anyway as modern explosives are horribly powerful.

Fantasy rules generally state that explosives are a no-no, though, despite some stuff going far back. Would be sort of neat if it depended on age and years. Something like: Age of myth OR under 1000 years = no explosives. 1000 or more and at least age of legend = crude explosives. 3000 or more and any other age type = crude firearms?

If Toady was even more ambitious, which I am assuming he is not in the relevant future even if something simple like what I suggested is not out of the question, only some technology could exist at world creation and further tech could be invented by individuals which would be recorded in the world's legends. And then it could be made to make me breakfast every day before I wake up 

Main problem right now is migration is brokenly huge. Wealth is actually a BAD thing, because migration starts somewhere around 'high' and goes up from there. I cannot be the only one who is often nervous about simply smoothing walls because the migration waves are already over 20 each by the end of year one or two. The other day I was shocked to see I only got one (1) migrant in the first migration wave, despite having a habit of not even making some items to sell until the first or second migration wave comes in.

How it should work, and how it seems to be intended to work, is you should have to intentionally work on your wealth in ways not related to basic survival/expansion to get large migration waves. If an init option is not put in, then hopefully this is just temporary to help people test and it'll be seriously toned down once the bugs get mostly under control.

Basic migration rule: So long as unusable artifacts like bracelets of gold menacing with spikes of platinum are considered a total disappointment by those who want migrants, default migration is brokenly large.

A good idea might be to only count processed goods in migration wealth. No plain rocks, even of gold, unless they've been traded away in which case they count for exported wealth. Perhaps also not rough walls and other things simply made of plain rock instead of bricks. Same for wood, etc. Would make sense, after all if the gold is just sitting around and not used/traded it stands to reason that word about it won't exactly spread like wildfire. Even if word did get out...

Urist McCrazy: "Well, nah. I don't have any o' this gold I speak of, nor do' the one who told me. But they got it all up sitting there in massive piles, an' used in a few hasty-built walls and workshops. Massive piles of neglected gold I tell ye."
Urist McUrist: "Bah, ye done been none to careful about which wild mushrooms ye been eatin' again, I reckon. Here, a good cup 'o hot brandy'll help flush 'em outta yer system and sober ye back up a bit. If there be any truth to it, they just got lucky with a vein that'll run dry before any o' us could get there. Only heyseed humans and nancy elves do so little diggin' a whole town o' them ain't likely to hit a vein o' somethin' once or twice."

At least it wasn't... (minor HFS spoiler)

Yeah, I had that demanded. Convinced me to delay putting in law indefinitely.

Adding something like "Melt Ice/Snow" to the kiln would be nice, with the result stored in buckets/barrels. Perhaps with a harvesting area implemented so you can set where they get it from. Magma/coal would become more important for cold biomes.

Dabbling trainers couldn't train much more than a puppy or a kitty.

If this was done, I think grown domestic dogs should still be tamable by anyone, not just puppies. Otherwise training the animal trainers themselves would be too problematic, and dogs take easily to training anyway. Could put a major speed penalty for grown dogs if they are only dabbling, but it should still be doable.

Perhaps that could be done with other animals too, by making training skill minimum also effect training speed. So if dogs require 0 skill and jaguars 5, a trainer with five skill could train a dog quickly but a jaguar very slowly. A person with 0 skill could train a dog, but very slowly like the skill 5 trainer and jaguar.

Is the axe set to forbidden? If you set it to be dumped to get a dwarf to drop it into a dump zone so another could use it, it'll be set to forbidden until you reclaim it.

6 gives a general happy feeling to everyone in the hospital.

Also addictive, bwahahahahaha! Tantrum spiral because of the lack of available coca extract during a siege

Merge "Tanner's Shop" and "Leather Works" to "Leather Works".  I could see a little benefit in having a separate building for tanning, but you could just build a dedicated Leather Works off to the side with a work list kept empty to handle automated tanning jobs.

I would not want to see this unless workshops can have certain jobs disabled for them, or mark them off limits to getting tasks from the manager. Unless a feature like that exists and I am simply unaware of it, the tanner's is completely justified at least for now.