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I've found that if you have a bunch of equally inexperienced dwarfs squads of 2 helps them train quicker, as they seem to spar more, which is the best (non-danger room) way of them to gain skills. 

I've not used any danger rooms and tend to have dwarfs get up to about lvl 6 or 7 fighter after the first year or so if I put them in a squad of 2 together and have them train at least 9 months of the year.  Later, I add more dwarfs to the squad so the experienced ones can teach them up (although I'm not sure about how quick that process is).

Also, since Toady hasn't yet fixed the "new liaison every year" bug, all you have to do is allow the meetings to take place (or kill the dwarf conducting the meeting, causing "Diplomacy Stymied - A diplomat has left unhappy") and let it leave - next year, you'll get an ordinary human diplomat instead.

In my experience you don't even need to kill the dwarf conducting the meeting, you can just replace him as whatever noble he is, and the diplomat will leave, and you can then switch back to the same dwarf if you so desire.

So I haven't had much interactions with subterranean races, and my current map has cave swallow people, which is no big deal.
I'm just curious as to why the ones that don't have jobs as either blowgunner or spearman are listed as friendly, while those that do have those military jobs are hostile.  Is this normal?  If I kill the hostile ones will the rest just sit there like nothing happened?  Will the hostile ones actively try to kill any of my units that approach? 

I've had more crashes in .18 than in all other versions I've played (although I skipped .17).  Can't figure out what's causing them either.  Just get an error window saying that DF has stopped responding and the process is being terminated.   
I find myself saving a lot more this version so that I don't have to redo as much. 

Thanks, changing the region raws worked like a charm.  I didn't realize that the raws were also in the specific save folders, so I just did the general raws before.

I prefer artifacts with images of the same artifact on them.  Very meta. 

This problem plagues me with every fort, it seems.  I have never lost a dwarf to wildlife, not once, at all.  Nor do I tend to see much wildlife in general.  Tends to be maybe 5 or 6 prey animals on the map, and never see anything else.

I once lost a dwarf to a normal crocodile in a normal swamp, which has made me afraid to embark on a terrifying area.  But maybe I'm living in fear of nothing.  I'll have to bring the terror to my next fort.

Quote from: madmaxxam on November 04, 2010, 10:21:50 am

Quote from: Quietust on November 04, 2010, 09:57:04 am

If he hasn't collected any metal bars, check his material preferences - it's very likely that he wants a specific metal.

You mean check his material preferences in his status description?  I'll look there, I thought they would just take what material was available of the proper type when they're in a mood though.

Yes, in his Thoughts and Preferences page - a dwarf that "likes rose gold" may absolutely insist on making his artifact out of rose gold, refusing to use any other kind of metal (or, if you've got Adamantine, he might insist on using that).

Thanks.  Apparently she just wanted copper.  Hadn't realized they were that picky with artifact creation.