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So, I embarked on what appeared to be a volcanic glacier, with no vegetation around.

Actually, there's precious little ice, but no trees.

Finally, when the population has used up my precious cargo of imported logs, I've tunnelled down to the caverns, to find them muddy but with nothing growing - no fungi, no trees, no shrubs...

Aside from having to rely on caravans to bring wood, and not being able to support grazing animals, it's not that bad, but does this sort of thing happen often, and, if so, why?

So updated to 34.05, and suddenly the text is both all over the place and missing, sometimes vital information (yes, I would like to know if those crafts are on repeat or not without rechecking every time).

I've seen a few oblique references to it, but;

1 - is it a bug?
2 - is it limited to 34.05?
3 - is there a way to fix it? [it's there whether on truetype or not...]

So I've got my limit set at 30, had 32 dwarves, was a little annoyed when another 9 turned up, as that wave included a vampire, but I reasoned it was due to the incredible number of children I had.

Now another %$# 20 have arrived, bringing my fortress to 62. 

Is the Population Cap broken, or something more sinister at work?

So I've got a fortress of 90-something happy dwarves, hoping that the nearby goblins invade soon.

It's frozen, and although there's trees and grass, there's year round snow and the surface stream and water is always frozen.

Due to a training accident, I've got a patient needing washing, there's no water in ANY of the caverns, and the only magma I've found is 180 levels below the ice.

Any ideas how I get water?

Hi there

Most of the conversation on the shiny new version is about undead, vampires and necromancers, but I can't find anything about some more mundane things of note/concern;

The waves of new migrants have really boring and useless skills - of the last wave of 24 I got, 6 are fishery workers, 6 are trappers.  All skills are either 1 (mostly) or 11 (rarely), with one skill of 2.  No useful skills AT ALL!! No skills in forging, mechanics, masonry or crafting. Which does limit things a bit...

I had the first two migrants with a random skill spread, but these guys are worryingly vanilla...

And the jewellers have the option to cut every rock?  I think it just stopped when I did ask for some cut gabbro, but is this a feature or a bug?

Also, we actually have the 'correct' metal bar consumption for items?  At least, my gold bins took 3 gold bars each...

Any others?

So I've scumsaved the same fort 5 times now, each time after an almost identical FB (well, wildly different description, but exactly the same poisonous something) appears, and after my squads kill it, half the fort dies of rot/paralysation/suffocation/etc.

And to cap it off, they are coming from a part of the caverns that I've tried blocking off completely and I can't see any ways through, but they still appear in the main caverns easily.

Sigh.  I like the idea of FBs, but each one being easy to kill, and then wiping out my fort with its blood, etc is getting very annoying.  Very, very annoying...

Any way to cope with this, other than flooding the caverns with magma.  It would be fun, but destroy my frame rate.  Actually, I might try that...

So, desert, volcano pipe, river of a type, sparse trees...

Well, the river is frozen, the temp is hot and there are no trees.

Weird, wrong or just what can happen at times?

And what do I do for beds??

Probably been done before, but my speardwarf/bookkeeper has picked up the name;

Zulban Zulbanilir Zulash Edtul;

"Zulban Bannerjoy the Pains of Grooving"

I'm imagining him slinking around the office wearing dwarven pimpwear (troll fur coat?), big dark glasses and lots of big gold chains that he beats tigermen to death with.  A dwarven Mr T?

Any other names that invoke the 70s, or earlier?