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So if a stockpile has 1 Wheelbarrow assigned to it, only one dwarf at a time will deposit items in that stockpile? If it's 0, it's just like before but they'll move slower?

I have trained squads full of Legendary Dwarves, using wooden spike (x10) training rooms.

Just make sure your dwarfs are FULLY covered by equipment. I always stripped my guys naked (as multiple clothing layers used to be bugged) and then equipped them with:

Helmet
Breastplate
Chainmail Shirt
Gauntlets
Greaves
HighBoots
Cloak/Cape

They will never die and stay perfectly healthy. For added bonus, train them with a weapon equipped first (till legendary in that weapon), then unequip the weapon but use a shield instead (till they are legendary shield users), then train them with no weapon/shield to level dodging (be sure to equip again once enemies are near by).

Using this method, you can get Legendary Weapon/Shield stats before you're dodge gets too high (if dodge is too high, your dwarf will dodge all the attacks and rarely block/parry).

I last played just before the update where bees/pots were added (Note: I have no idea what either do or how to use them). I'm an experienced player and have dealt with most types of fun, though from what I hear, there's now vampires and all sorts o_o

I'd also like to know if Adventure mode is easier now and if so, how do I go about playing without dying by the second day?

Edit: Also, I stopped playing as FPS death would always lower my fort to about 1/10 the normal speed and it would take forever to get anything done. Has this been resolved in anyway? Are there any methods to improve long term performance?

I also heard something about farms being easier to make, something like you don't have to flood indoor farms to get farmable soil?

Since I last played, it seems now that my animals get hungry and require a pasture. I noticed on the wiki it says some require a 5x5 pasture for that animal. Does that mean one each? If I had say, 4 cows, would they all need their own pasture?

This got me interested in to capturing/taming/breeding and then eating animals (like the stray badgers I keep seeing). How is this done? I'm a competent DF player, I've just never used pastures/taming/breeding before as it either didn't exist or wasn't working correctly.

Remove your caravan and unset your dining room (if you set one). Designate a meeting area with [ i ] in a room your dwarf should avoid. Said room should be lockable, floodable and drainable (in that order). Everytime you get a new wave of migrants they will head straight to this room (as they path to a meeting area). Lock the door and issue your dwarf to pull a lever, this level should be hooked to flood gates from a water source. This will drown them all. Drain the room in time for the next migrant wave.

If you turn off migrants, you should only get 2-3 waves tops.

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-2303-thedisappearingminotaur

Went differently to how I expected. I love the ? above the swordsdorf who was about to hit it.

Seriously though, what the hell happened?

I'm getting this spamming my log and I've also noticed a huge drop in FPS and lots of freezing/stuttering. What the hell have they all misplaced so badly? Every dwarf seems to be complaining about this. It's really annoying as I'm missing important announcements (A miner died and I have no clue how now!).

I was thinking of leaving about a 5 tile width around the outside and walling off in a big square, with a gate in the north, south, east and west.

Would this mess with the wildlife, trade caravans, ambushes, sieges, etc? I'm thinking of a mega project and I plan to cover/replace most of the surface but I want everything to still work in the desired way.