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I've always thought that fluids should have some sort of "energy" on the tile representing the flow (energy of 0 being stagnant water, brooks might be 4, major rivers 10, whatever).

The water wheel would extract this energy from the water so a perpetual motion machine would eventually have water without any energy in it and stop flowing.

Could add a quality in there as well to determine efficiency (a standard quality wheel drains 4 energy from water, produces 90/100 power.  A masterwork quality wheel might drain only 2 energy from the water).

And here I thought this was going to be an actual spiral of happiness.  Two idle dwarves start talking, throw a party, and eventually the entire fort is partying without doing any work!  Thus adding potential punishments for dwarves being too happy.

Hmm..  That brings up a good question.  Given that this depends on goblin civilians, will we see:

"Goblin cancels task: dig; interrupted by Dwarf?"

I made 4 statues for the entryway of my newest fort.

The first was of the leader of group founding the fortress.

The other three were various elves being struck down by legendary creatures of the world.

I'm going to like this fort I think

Pretty sure they use stitching to stop bleeding now, whereas with irons it's faster (but leaves an ugly scar behind).  Though if the bleeding is bad enough the speed can be important (I might also argue for a "battlefield care" where this could be done by anyone with medical training without going to a hospital zone first).

I personally wouldn't require tools, just assume that they have the materials once a hospital is formed.  Probably needs a fire source once those are in.

If Toady was to make reproduction dependant on the existence of reproductive organs, then sterilization would be an almost straightforward matter. In fact, Syndrome tokens already provide a method to target specific body parts.

...  And we could mod a custom syndrome to auto-neuter cats then?

Add "cauterizing irons" next to "amputation" on the additional medical tricks for Doctors.

Hmm, could we have it so that they make a sort of "temporary tunnel" that reverts back to rock after a period of time?

Representing that the invader tunnel probably isn't as polished as actual mine tunnels would be.  This would avert the "swiss cheese" map issues that would otherwise come about.

I still maintain that they need to establish an actual siege encampment on the surface before even attempting tunneling.  I'd envision:
- Initial siege forces arrive, engage any dwarves outside of the fortress
- Siege attempts to push in to the fortress, if repelled they fall back to "starve out" Dwarves
- Siege support crew arrives, starts establishing a "base camp" for the siege
- Siege weapons are constructed and attack walls
- "Light" tunnelers appear that can create tunnels through sand/dirt/etc trying to get into best guess locations in the fortress
- "Heavy" tunnelers appear that can create tunnels through rock trying to get into best guess locations

Along with the above, I would say "tunnelers" should create "tunneled <rock>" a pathable rock that will eventually decay back to just normal rock.

A siege can be broken by killing enough of the forces and/or destroying their base camp forcing them to retreat.  Sieges should get reinforcements as the siege goes on, so leaving them unchecked will likely result in Fun.