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Before I learned to separate my food stockpiles from the booze, one of my first fortresses had an issue with booze; no barrels to make it with. I didn't realize this until dwarves were going berserk over it, so I figured assigning a captain of the guard would calm things down.

Turns out this guy would have made an excellent military captain instead, as he proceeded to punch half the fortress to death. As a result, the spiral worsened and I ended up flooding the fortress from the nearby river.

When assigning civilians to a burrow directly, you need to remember that the burrow does not specifically restrict movement to the burrow's confines. That's what military alerts are for. Civilian burrows restrict what buildings and jobs dwarves involve themselves with. As an example, a recent fortress of mine had two masons; however, the dome I was building was being constructed in such a way that if more than one mason worked on it, holes would be left in the wall. To prevent this, I assigned each mason to a burrow, one where the construction was taking place, and the other in the mason workshops where I had jobs that needed doing. Both burrows included their bedrooms and the dining hall and stockpiles.

So I've just embarked on a new glacier in a new (and much colder) world. The embark is 3x5, with a volcano in the top center. As soon as I embark, I get the usual "cave-in" warning, but as I look around, I notice a couple of odd things.

First of all, there appears to be very straight paths "dug" about the mountains (which I will get to in a moment). like so:
Secondly, and more awesome to me, is the two spire-like mountains that flank it to either side, extending up 114 and 115z-levels respectively. They are almost perfect cones (though the left one has another peak off its back, it seems), with square bases, thanks to the aforementioned paths. The volcano cone appears to be made mostly of ice.
And finally, upon attempting to view this pile of awesome in Stonesense, I see some sort of lines below the ice, in what might be obsidian. Anything to this, or just something strange that Stonesense does with glacial ice? dfReveal shows nothing but typical stone layers, mostly igneous (big surprise). I think it might be some sort of "reflective" deal put in. The only modification I've made to Stonesense is the "Additional Ramps" pack on the wiki

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Thoughts? Ideas? My first impression is to build a sacrificial altar to Armok between the two peaks, to throw prisoners into the volcano from a hanging pit at the level of the peaks.

EDIT: I also have the site saved, so far untouched but with the first embark team on site, if anyone wants. *shrug*

I am only disappointed that nowhere do I see that line
"Put 'em in the bed with the baron's daughter".

There are 5 types of sand. Yellow, Black, White, Red, and just plain Sand. The color has absolutely no effect on glassmaking.

I'd make them out of wood, and specifically these woods:

Goblin Cap
Nether Cap
Black Cap
Fungiwood
Tunnel Tube

A few rare golems to be made from Tower Cap.

10 points and a cookie to anyone noticing a theme here.

340: You lament the fact that you are unable to cage your cat, due to your significant other having been adopted by it.

341: As a result you have begun digging a hole in the back yard.

Is it sad that these were my waking thoughts this morning as my fiancee's 7-month old kitten woke me by attacking my feet?
"Dammit I want to cage the little beast. Wait, I can't, it's her pet. Maybe I could just put it in a hole out back, With the neighbor's storm door over the top..."

Basically the only way to get the bastard in a cage is make sure your cage traps have a ceiling immediately over them, and wait for the eagles to come visit your fortress. Flying creatures don't avoid traps as long as there isn't another z-level they can move to.