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Because your FB was made of fire, he was made of a non-solid material, and therefore dies to basically the first hit.  I had a similar FB, a flame quadruped, that died when it rounded a corner and found some animal men adjacent to it before it could breathe its fire at them all.  All it takes is one hit to disperse a gas cloud, don't know about liquid beasts or whatnot.

it pays to read the entire post. The OP said this was the expected behavior in previous versions, but in the latest version has had non-solid/organic FBs that were quite tough. Thus the thread title, "Elemental beasts been buffed?"

What version are you using? I had much success with golems in the version of masterwork that shipped with 43.03, and I haven't played since Masterwork upgraded to 43.05, which uses 64bit DF, and thus has to use the experimental version of DFHack. If you are both using the latest version then I am guessing this issue is caused by a bug in DFHack or the scripts it uses to create golems.

Dwarf Fortress is CPU bound. It is single threaded and does not use the GPU. The main thing that matters is CPU speed.
Refrain from using many large stockpiles. Try using quantum stockpiles, minecarts make them easy to create. Atom smashing and/or simply not creating excess junk helps. Block off all unused areas, either with walls or simply with locked doors.As weirdsound mentions, animals can be a big drain on FPD so lock 'em up when you are noot trying to breed them, or just go for an animal-free fort and import meat.

If you are using DFHack, you can use the "autodump destroy" command to quickly get rid of junk. DFHack also has some tweaks to speed things up, like simplifying temperature calculations and automatically getting rid of old clothes.

I like the checkerboard garbage dump approach because it can be done at any depth. Miasma doesn't spread through diagonal gaps, it only spreads in the four cardinal directions. Therefore, a checkerboard garbage dump will keep any miasma in the tile it started in. Dwarves hauling garbage may still walk through a miasma square or two on their way to drop off trash, but that's only a very minor hit to happiness. I make a macro since it's a pain to designate a checkerboard dig pattern.

YAY! This new update makes me so happy, thank you! I hope things are going well evictedSaint. I really love this story, and your artwork always makes me smile.

Thanks for that Quietust.
A follow on question is then what happens with a bottom-up pump stack: if the magma is transported from the source to the top in a single tick, will there be any magma in the air/reservoirs at the time temperature calculations are performed? If not, shouldn't every calculation come up with ambient temperature?
And would the larger reservoirs of the recommended pump stack design have any function for a single tick transport, as there shouldn't be any time for the magma to flow out into the rest of the reservoir?

I've built these single tick magma pump stacks, every time I make a magma pump stack. I do not believe they require any temperature recalculations.  It's a bit more work to create them but worth it. They do not seem to impact frame rate at all, at least until the reservoir fills up and they start to back up.

I suppose slightly off-topic, but nerves will only regrow if the nerve sheath is intact.  Basically, the nerve bundle is contained within the sheath.  I think of it like an electrical wire with insulation around the outside.  If the nerve is killed, but the sheath is intact (for instance like the electrical wire breaking inside the insulation), then the nerve will regrow.  If the sheath is cut, the nerve will not regrow (though apparently they can repair the sheath to a certain extent if you get surgery done quickly -- so if you cut off your finger, put it in ice and go as fast as you can to the hospital).

Source: Major leg injury caused my foot to be partially paralysed, but since the sheath was intact it eventually repaired itself.  Took about 10 years to get back to near 100%.

Actually, in peripheral nerve injury, the nerve sheath gets dissolved in a process called "Wallerian degeneration." This is actually part of the regeneration process. (like you I had nerve damage but mine was to the optic nerve, which never regrows.) See more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_nerve_injury

A long, long time ago, some DF-playing EMT made a more realistic injury and recovery mod that featured peripheral nerve regrowth among many other realistic changes.