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Simple way to test this, find a night creature's lair, and embark, they usually have a bunch of dwarf/elf/human meat to chow down on. Forbid all other food and see if your dwarves eat it.

Weapons need to be more balanced in general. Bladed weapons should massacre an unarmored target, while a mace should easily break bones at a competent level, even under armor. At present, blades can hack through anything and maces can only bruise the skin of goats. Arrows used to be an instant kill to all but moderate to heavily armored foes. In reality this is how it was like. Not the current version where a panda is able to take eighteen shots to the torso without dying.

3. Minimizing contact area. This is what points and edges are for. Pressure is force divided by area, therefore lower area means greature pressure when force is constant. At present, low contact areas are worse, which is weird and unrealistic.

Not what from I can see. Not being mean here, but have you looked at the raws? They have contact area/penetration already. Every weapon from a sword to a mace. Set a spear to have a contact area from one to five and iron or bronze is able to strike through steel armor. The problem comes when a whip can get embedded into the wound and then twisted. That's always bugged me.

Still, a dozen dwarves smoking? Each puffing out a 1x1 cloud of smoke every few seconds?

Don't get me wrong, having smoking dwarves around would provide an interesting aesthetic, as well as make sieges more unbearable. Maybe making use cave_adapt type of addictions where a dwarf can get over his addiction if not enough cigs are around. Providing huge negative thoughts to those who cannot have a smoke and to those who are in a close proximity to smokers 3x3 (perhaps based on ETHICS) would also be interesting.

Additionally you are trusting dwarves, who cannot put on clothes, to hold a cigarette. I can foresee several bugs, dwarves not using cigs, dwarves using more then one cig, dwarves not putting down spent cigs. Dwarves that do not stop smoking and stand there forever.

Alas I am willing to sacrifice aesthetics for frame rate. And for foreseeable game ending bugs.

Assuming bugs could be worked out, the idea was built up a little more (How would you make cigs? Quality? Happiness? Smoking during work or while on break? Addiction and 'recruitment' to smoking?) and there was an ON/OFF switch (both for the politically correct and for Lag haters) I'd be fully behind this.

As said, LOTR is not a bible for all fantasy games.

Second, cigs cause smoke, smoke causes lag. Even a little bit of mist coming from a waterfall causes a significant lag source. Having twenty dwarves on a smoke break at once would kill a computer.

Third this seems like another useless aesthetic that serves no purpose other then a petty happy thought and yet another thing to take up dwarves time.

Concerning Opium wars? No, it's in bad taste, and not everybody supports such a brutish suggestion just because 'real life does it'.

I'm assuming trade goods will be very much linked to happy thoughts.  If so then much of the difficulty of the game will arise from the happiness system.  Which gives two very good reasons to give us modders value tokens for the happy/unhappy thoughts

Just amp up the [PERSONALITY_DEPRESSION:100:100:100] This way they go from ecstatic to unhappy when two or three minor things happen.

Still it's a rough fix, perhaps instead of having a happiness modifier, we can have an unhappiness modifier. With the happiness modifier you would have dwarves with HAPPINESS_VALUE:1 and you would have to be working with decimals to get somebody who would be half as happy to have a room of gold. However with UNHAPPINESS_VALUE:1 you can use whole numbers. So UNHAPPINESS_VALUE:2 would make unhappy events 2x more powerful and happy events 2x less, or divide it up into two separate tags. Still I like this idea.

-No doubt in preparation for the caravan arc, one only gets 2-3 kinds of metals per area and that's it.  Pretty realistic (though annoying with the most vital iron.. aaaagh), and pretty cool!  And the same thing should probably apply to crops!  Tokens for what soil indoor/outdoor plants can grow in would make forts even more reliant on trade.  And by default, all would be available of course.

Minerals changed in .20/.21 you can now select mineral scarcity.

As for plants, I support, it is weird that a strawberry can grow in tundras. Having a [RESTRICTED_BIOME:xx] tag would be fun indeed. Of course there would have to be more plants in general. Or you would only have two plant types per embark area.

-It seems every time removing any permitted_jobs doesn't work each build for some reason or another for the active player's fort (works fine for off-map civs I think...).  Last big build it stopped all jobs in one category, this build it stops one from putting points in on embark but one can still use the job.  This particular token would play a huge role for mods of the caravan arc so this really needs fixing.

I noticed this bug when I was trying to remove the Bowyer. Support.

I don't think a cat would be an effective hunting/war animals DF or real life. They're to small to any notable damage.

Give the bears [LIKES_FIGHTING] tag. That should make them attack your dwarves when they are confronted.

Have you tested this, as BA as it sounds, I am almost 100% sure that it will not get dragged to the food stockpile, and even more so that dwarves will not recognize it as food.