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I've been playing with the new version of Masterwork for a few weeks now and just saw my first big organized dance in my newly opened above ground pub. It was a perfect fantasy world scene: two dwarves standing by the wall playing instruments while a naga man bard recited poetry ("Weeeeeelll swing your partner round and round, dip your partner to the ground, swing your partner round again and wriggle like a naga man!")

Eighteen dancers were on the floor in a staggered three by six pattern doing a sort of twisting roundelay with groups of four rotating around a common center but switching off partners. Most were dwarven or naga bards and poets, but one of the fortress mechanics was whooping it up near the center, as well as a white tigerman, a human, and a dwarven mercenary, and a human duke consort. A Pandashi baroness consort watched from the door, a naga man bard and naga woman poet watched from behind the bar, while a human spearman mercenary slept drunkenly in a pile of mugs.

This just made my day and fulfilled all my expectations of opening a fantasy pub/inn. The screenshot I caught was showing the dance/play music icons instead of the individual character tiles the moment I snapped it, which I guess are leaves and armor racks?

Peripheral nerves grow back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroregeneration
Iron is FAR more common than copper in the crust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust
Steel making just doesn't work like that. Why do we ADD carbon to the pig iron and regular iron? Steel has LESS carbon than pig iron. Decarburization can be achieved solely through heating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrous_metallurgy

These things have been bugging me about DF for years now.

Sometimes, water in my forts will completely lose pressure. I've seen it happen in u-bends before, but now I'm seeing it in a system with no u-bends. I've got water going down a flight of stairs, through two engraved fortifications and a wall grate, over a raising bridge as the upper shut-off, then down twelve z-levels. The water travels horizontally north 13 tiles, west 18 tiles, and then north 6 tiles. It goes diagonally through a floodgate, to reduce pressure, and into the top of my 2 z-level tall cistern.

At the beginning, it all works like it is supposed to. After a few seconds, the water seems to forget that it is under pressure. A 6 water tile has to make it all the way back to the stairwell before more water falls. It should be 7s all the way to the depressurizer. Water should teleport to the next available 6 tile before the depressurizer. It doesn't. However, using the dfhack liquids command to destroy the tile of water under the stairwell instantly restores things to working order, and the system remembers it is under pressure. For another few seconds. Then it forgets again.

I've looked on the bug tracker, and the only reports I can find are from people who don't understand how pressure works in the game, and think water should come back up to the same level like it would in the real world. I'm not expecting that, I know how the pressure system is supposed to work in the game, and it does, but it fails intermittently.

All my golems and awakened rocks are distracted by unmet needs. What can I do to prevent this? Do golems need oil?  Also, rocks are shown as "no job" throwing off my idle counter, any way to fix this? (Maybe this is more of a 'The Earth Strikes Back' question...)

How do you go about it? is there a good way to find the right person for the job? Is it true that having a tavern keeper will cause drunken fights and alcohol poisoning? No, really, have you personally seen it happen or is this just another DF forum rumor that people keep spreading without any proof?

Basements and Bureaucrats?

"My 12th level Office Drone confronts the Middle Manager, 'You've been stealing my ideas and not giving me any credit! En Guarde!' He draws his +2 letter opener and makes a feint attack!"

"Roll for initiative. Okay, the Middle Manager is surprised, roll to hit, ouch! Critical failure, you fumble and drop the letter opener. The Middle Manager draws his Red Swingline Stapler of Fire! 'That's the last straw, burn it down!' he cries as he opens fire..."

Nerds: the Hackening?

"I tap my Sun Micro for 1 CPU, and cast Network Scan."

"Hah, I tap my NeXT Cube and play Obsolete as an interrupt, put your Sun on the discard pile..."

Just when you think you've seen everything in this game, a migrant walks onto the map and drops a horse nose. How does this even happen? WHY did this happen? Somehow, the game gave a dwarf a horse nose, said dwarf carried it all the way to my fort, then decided, "No, you know what, I really don't need this horse nose after all."