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Babies. We're entering year three of our fort (We are using the royal plural, today, for some reason), and we have well over two dozen babies. Did The Toady One increase dwarves' reproduction rate? We may have missed that announcement.

This leads us to our second question: how do you all deal with the "clothing madness" problem? We have had two kids go bonkers because we could not produce enough clothes to keep them from being embarassed to the point of insanity. Is there a way to assign owned objects?

My dwarves are convinced, absolutely convinced that there is a wild hive on a particular tile. The original problem was this: The tile had nothing on it but red sand. No hive, at all. A dwarf would reach said tile, then stand there until he or she was almost starving and dehydrated before returning to the safety of the fort. This happened repeatedly. I tried building a wall on top of said tile to convince them that there was nothing underneath, but they didn't care. They would walk toward the spot, realize that there was a wall in the way, and walk back to the fort. Then I channeled it straight through, no more tile. Undeterred, my intrepid dorfs still believe that there is a hive on a tile that literally no longer exists. What madness is this? What shall I do?

A dwarf who enters a strange mood who dies before its completion and has a slab engraved for them will have that artifact's "Human" name on the slab, i.e. "In memory of Urist McDead / 461-563 / Creator of Fireanus / Lover of maggots."

Found out this little tid-bit when an overzealous metalcrafter entered a fey mood before anvils had entered the fort. He was quarantined for his and everyone else's safety. On the bright side, a brand new room just opened for any dwarf who needs it!

My dwarves are punishing me, but I know not what for. My punishment is par for the course: confused frustration. I have over 1600 prepared meals available, none of them out of reach or forbidden, and yet my dorfs apparently refuse to eat any of them. Instead, they have starved themselves to the point that they are now hunting vermin for sustenance. A spiral is imminent. Why has this happened?

SO, through a fun turn of events, people were thrown in jail and the entire fortress guard was sealed in the caverns to deal with the FB menace. Two of my incarcerated dwraves went insane; one is a babbling fool and the other is incredibly morose. I immediately released all other inmates manually to avoid further madness. The two that are incarcerated... continue to give birth. My dwarves need neither eat or drink, so while these poor souls' husbands yet live, they will eternally produce children for my fort.

Yay!

As the caravans are just beginning their trek to the edge of the map after a long and profitable journey to my fort, the local baron has a realization: all of those gold goblets he traded must. Not. Leave. Of course, the leave anyway. I check my prison records, and I have 18 dwarves serving consecutive sentences for commiting the heinous crime of daring to get rid of anything made of gold. One of my dwavres has a sentence of 1101 days. My baron is a total douche.

.....Artifact. Is nickel a good material for edge weapons? How can you tell? Also, I love Haunted biomes. Zombies make every migrant wave FUN

Trying to make a volcano-heavy world; I want them everywhere, particularly in deserts. How do i make this happen?

On an unrelated note: what happens if I reduce the number a cavern layers from three to two?