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Not blocks, obviously.

Have you tried just making sure that the kaolinite is the closest clay like material to the kiln? The wiki states you cannot select the material used in the make clay... jobs.

Edit: to be more clear I believe you can make porcelain by starting any make clay ... job if kaolinite is the closest material. I never tried it myself though.

What, Kaolinite is clay? Ok, I'll try that, I assumed it was an entirely different process.

Probably, although caravans fortunately tend to be a lifesaver in those situations - all of them carry leather, silk cloth or plant cloth ^^

What caddybear is trying to say: negative thoughts from rotting cloths or even naked dwarfs will quickly plunge your fortress into a tantrum spiral. If you see most of your dwarfs walking around in XXgarmentXX clothing then it's about time you start producing an adequate supply of new cloths (most importantly robes/dresses, trousers and shoes).

One of my miners was just randomly found dead in his bed. He didn't have any wounds, diseases or contaminants, so I was kind of taken by surprise. In order to find out what happened I engraved a memorial plate for him (since those include the dying reason) and I got even more surprised:

"This is a superior quality granite memorial to Onol Besmarvir. It is encrusted with oval diorite cabochons.
The slab reads 'In memory of Onol Besmavir / Born 121 / Died peacefully in the year 276 / Devoted mother and wife / Friend of ducks'"

In 3 years of playing dwarf fortress this is a first for me - I didn't even know it was possible O.o

Yeah, the wiki covers magma-safe pretty comprehensively.

You can, of course, turn off in the stones menu under 'z' which stones will be used by your dwarves, restricting them to gabbro / orthoclase / etc....

Unfortunately it only covors Magma-safe, and doesn't mention not-Magma-safe, which is actually more important in my opinion
There's no "STAY AWAY FROM THIS STUFF OR YOU WILL BURN"-list, I have to check for every single material if it's not in the list

The only issue is that the edge of the map provides an infinte drain, so to pull it off properly you are going to have to do something creative like build raising bridges around the perimeter of your whole map then raise them before unleashing the magma.

Will bridges from a magma-safe material desintegrate in magma if I link them with, say, a copper mechanism, or will I just not be able to lower them anymore?

I plan on flooding the surface with lava to make my fort entrance the only habitable place around. So does the magma sea always provide an infinite supply of magma I can use?

^ question

I built an elaborate pipe system for the various needs for water in my fortress. One pipe is now blocked by a fungiwood - did I just forget to smooth that one floor tile or does smoothing not help at all and I have to drain the whole system to construct "artificial" floors instead?