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So I've just fired up DF 40.10, upgrading from a long experience with 34.11. I'm trying to get my head around the basic changes before making it more complex with the latest version.

Anyway, punctured some caverns, found a troll and it started stalking the fort. Usually, when I don't have a militia, that's a lot of dead dwarves. So this time, same approach -  appoint a 5 dwarf squad and set them on it, and build coffins.

Instead, these unarmoured, unarmed dwarves punched the troll to death. PUNCHED! Only two of them had weapon skills, but again, no weapons.

Changes to combat, or I just got lucky with this lot?

Due to magma, and **FUN**, I have forged exactly 4 wafers of magic shiny blue stuff. And there is no more coming out until I drain the third caverns into the magma ocean. So, for the moment, that's all I'm getting.

One moody dwarf finally made up for all the artifact rock earrings and braclets, and stole one to make a very very nice battleaxe, but what should I do with the other 3 wafers? Three helms, one sword, something nice for the dining room?

Suggestions, please.

I've got an infestation of zombies, so there's a lot of dead in each migrant wave, lying on the surface and I'm not planning on touching them until I've got a military up and working.

But one badly beaten dwarf made it into the fort after surviving above ground for several seasons, only to die while being diagnosed.

Trouble is, I want to put him in a coffin. As soon as I do, there's a list of 47 other dead that get assigned above him, even though they are a) forbidden and b) have memorial slabs.

How can I get the dwarves to put the only body they have available in a coffin without me having to deploy dozens of coffins until one sticks?

So, trying to establish a fort in a haunted area for the first time.

I don't mind the death, the undead, the pain and horror. I DO mind that dwarves can't do anything at all if there is an undead thing anywhere on the %$# map and that they run like little girls.

My present problem, however, is that there is a dead undead thing outside the small cave I've managed to excavate. They are petrified of it, even though it is dead and not moving, and so will rather die of thirst in the cold than get inside with the booze. When I form the army, they can stand on it and it doesn't do anything, and I can't kill it, 'cos it's dead.

Anyone know of what the problem might be? I'm stumped here.

So the Village of DippedPully is going along nicely, with goblins resisted and an FB roaming the caverns.

There's even a lovely pond inside the walls for fishing and washing and stuff.

The problem is, during an early goblin incursion, two of the recruits either died & fell in, or fell in and died. Either way, the dwarves are getting a little spooked by the rotting faces of their friends staring at them from 4 ft of water.

Any practical way of rescuing the bodies without destroying the lake, as it's quite pleasant?

Hi

So only the last couple of forts, I've discovered something strange.

Continually building and removing a stone wall to stop zombies getting in but letting in the first few waves of migrants (yes, clumsy, but I have plans for a more permanent solution when I have more than 10 dwarves), it seems that when a wall is deconstructed, the contents of any stockpiles nearby are sucked into a pile just outside where the wall was.

I though it might be a weird modelling of the positive air pressure inside a fortress, but this time, there's no roof, so that's not right.

In case it's related, a dwarf was building a new wall nearby, and somehow ended up on top of the wall next to it - a position impossible to get to unless he flew.

Any ideas?

I've embarked in a terrifying biome, but rather than flying unkillable zombie things, there's normal creatures and, well, it's actually snowing frozen dwarf blood.

The dwarves are hiding down in the first caverns, tunnelling towards a magma layer, but there's normal, non-undead animals happily grazing on the surface, in the drifts of frozen dwarf blood.

Is it harmless, or will, upon the first death, various skins and organs rise up and start killing dwarves?