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Build floors over the bloody patches. When they get bloody again, rip it up.

Thats probably a better solution than making a hose ;P Well, 'better' as in 'less likely to result in fun', that is.

I did, thats why I was a bit confused; I always cull mandates, so I've never seen that color before. Maybe the mandate changed mid delivery or something *Shrug*
I know that can happen.

What exactly do the different text colors mean in the trade screen?

I'm gathering brown is stuff that I've made, and I *think* that white is stuff that I didnt make. But what the heck is violet/pink/magenta? I've never seen that before.

Ok, this was kind of horrifying, and also vaguely amusing, as is everything weird that dwarves do.

A ways back, I built a large jail. I tend to build all of my rooms large, just because I never know when I might need some extra space for something. I put in 3 chains and a pair of cages, and added in a square of food and a square of drink stockpiles within reach of each one, because I'd heard that you needed to do that sometimes. I've never actually built a jail before, so made both one of the cages and one of the chains a room. Apparently I missed flagging the chain as 'used for justice' - which resulted in this event.

So I went about my business as usual. My countess (curse her lazy hide) demanded the construction of a steel throne. Not having access to flux, I let it pass. So of course when the time came, she imprisoned one of the metalcrafters. After a fair bit of time had passed, just about the time I was thinking of checking on him, I got a message:

"Doc Whiskey has thrown a party at Chain" (Doc Whiskey being the combination High Master Diagnoser and High Master Brewer who showed up one day at my fort).

Fascinated, I watched as half my fort came piling into the jail to party in the dungeon. Then I noticed something else - the guy who had been jailed was Thirsty AND Hungry! The partying dwarves were eating his food! Not only that, but nobody cared to come bring him food or drink either, and he actually DIED of thirst with all these dwarves partying around him! And, to make it even more amusing, immediately after the party ended.

The logical conclusion to this of course is that everyone hated that Metalcrafter, and came to torture him by stealing his food and laughing at him as he slowly wasted away.

It's because they are getting either lots of kills of goblins, elves, and/or trolls, or because they've killed someone who is an important historical leader. Usually this means the leader of a seige, though sometimes killing an FB or Titan can net a dwarve a name.

Essential doing those triggers the dwarf gaining a title, which apparently can reset their name.

IMO, just let the spikes kill them if you're good at keeping dwarves happy. I generally don't have any problems at all with tantrums despite having a handful of deaths from stupid dwarves and suicidal pets each season.

legend mode, check history map for closest non-dorf civs.

You don't even have to do that. Just hit tab a few times on the embark screen, and it'll show you a list of what civs could reach that spot and what their feelings towards you are. There'll be a list on the right that says 'Dwarves, Elves, Goblins' and so on.

Imo, let the bastards get themselves stuck. Dwarves who are too stupid to live without my help don't deserve to live in my fortress. They take a little trip in the Labyrinth of Forgotten Horrors. Which they built with their hands.