Bay 12 Games Forum

So I just made my first huge (30min+ generation) world with 200 volcanoes in it, and holy shit there are a lot of volcanoes.  Unfortunately, I can't find a perfect embark spot (river, no aquifer, volcano, decent tree cover) and I really don't want to use the find tool because it will take another half hour. 

My question is, when I'm embarking near a volcano, does the volcano actually have to be in my embark zone for me to easily access magma, or will there be a high chance of finding magma if I embark, say, 2 squares away from a volcano?

I fully support drowning chambers.  I've got a 4x4 chamber with my "DIE" burrow that fills up then drains into a deep pit and eventually falls into a cavern.  Let the crundles deal with the corpses.

I'm about to start my 5th year of school (doing a quick victory lap) to get an English BA.  I was an English Education major, decided to fuck that shit and become a plain old English major.

The problem is, I was an Education major because people told me how useless an English major is.  That, or I always hear it in jokes (being waited on by English majors, English major being a bank teller, etc.)  Now that I'm a regular English major and people ask me what I want to do with it, I have nothing to tell them because I imagine this diploma being completely useless.

Right now, I'm thinking grad school is a necessity.  I have to specialize in something.  I'm thinking Marketing (I hear there's money there, and shit, I could come up with a Coors Light Coldness Window), maybe law school? (very fringe idea)  or I'd love to get into Psychology.  The only problem is that I worry about not being able to do anything with a Masters in Psych, or that I'd be completely unprepared for the coursework.

tl;dr  Is anyone here an English major?  Do you feel as bleakly about it as I do?  What can I do with this piece of crap?

Is there an easier way to find magma without digging down to the sea?  Whenever I want to do magma forges, that seems to be the only option available to me.  Then again, I'm not really spawning in areas near volcanoes.

Yeah, my mistake on that one-  it is I who has their brain misplaced.

Sorry about double posting, but my fortress is getting packed  full of remains, and I can't get the stone out of my newly dug storerooms!  Can anyone give me a lead on how to fix this?

1.  Is there a way to save the game that doesn't boot you back out to the main menu?

2.  My woodcutters aren't picking up battle axes and there are weapons all over the place available to them.  What could be up with this?  The labor is enabled.

I've read and seen a lot of people talking about combat logs; it seems like it definitely enhances combat.  I've tried to find something similar in 2010 and failed- is there any sort of combat logging?