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So.... How to "give" a room to the mayor?

With a bed, table or chair.

I canīt assign any cabinet to my mayor, or anyone. Help?

Cabinets in a room assigned to a dwarf belong to that dwarf.

I always just put my butcher and tanner topside with the refuse pile.

If the meat is in a stockpile, it won't rot.  Make more barrels.  Make prepared food.  Dig stockpiles in soil, if you've got it; won't leave stones.  Make more barrels.

For big corpses it can take a LONG time.  Like 10 years at the upper end.  Severed limbs I usually see decay in a matter of months if not less.

Quote from: BigJake on October 07, 2010, 02:16:43 am

Seems as good time as any to ask this:

I've never played a game of DF where the entire map wasn't entirely red for the caravans.  Is that not normal?

Check your depot. It should be green, including some surroundings.
Any green square is accessible by the wagon (which is not implemented as of now). If you build a 3-tile-wide path to the depot, only the middle tiles will light up green. Any green tile is accessible.
Also, wagons can only move up ramps, not stairs. Check the wiki on ramps.

The entire map is red.  Every map I've ever played, actually, which I find very, very odd now.  The only thing that isn't red are the middle 9 tiles of the depot that are yellow.  I have never seen these green tiles.  I can't possibly imagine what could cause this over so many versions and saves;  I'd just ignored it thinking it was unfinished or something.

I get caravans fine, though.

Quote from: Alastar on October 06, 2010, 02:50:21 pm

@ zilpin: Bronze, copper and silver all make good bolts, silver being best against flesh and bronze against goblin-level armour. Iron, steel and adamantine are worse, probably on account of being too light.

Interesting. Is there any research on this? I've always thought that making steel bolts was the "best". 

Despite the fact they pierce like spears, density is important to bolts like it is with hammers and maces.