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900 trees, 9,000 units of wood.

Ships...well, I suppose I need to think about that. Let's see, how big of ships are you thinking and where is a web page about shipbuilding?
(I'm planning to find the latter, actually.)


EDIT: Some rough estimates for pricing of forging metal items, as well as other weapons, which will be changed with a good objection from realism or balance:
1 Unit of metal for chain mail armor.
2 units of metal for plate armor.
2 units of metal for mail armor for a horse, 3 units if metal plate for head and chest is included.
1 unit of metal for a solid shield .5 units of metal .5 units of wood for a metal rimmed shield.

2 unit of wood for a bow.
1 unit of metal+1 unit of wood for spear/pike/halberd and throwing spears.
1 unit of wood+1 unit of metal for 1h axe and throwing axe.
1.5 units of wood + 1.5 units of metal for 2h axe.
 1.5 units of metal for a sword, 2 units of metal for a 2h sword.
1 unit of metal 1 unit of wood for a mace.
0.5 units of metal for a dagger.

Pretty much all of these will require a unit of fuel (coke or charcoal) to forge.
Forging metal furniture won't likely be as important, so let's just use DF's numbers, about 3 units of metal per furniture. Sound OK?

Check the OP to answer your own question. Just include your entrance in your action.

Wow, that's almost not worth calculating regrowth rates...

And, as someone has pointed out that they are producing absurd amounts of coke, I'm cutting coke production slightly.

I was making a sparring arena in my latest fortress and I thought it'd be neat-o if you had the dwarves train in shallow water their experience would climb higher because of the added weight that they would have.

The added weight? Huh? If anything, weight would be lower due to buoyancy...
I could see dwarves trying to train swimming and fighting simultaneously, but I'm having trouble seeing it work.

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Well, then magic which fixes limb loss would notably reduce DF's lethality if it was cheap/easy.

No because magic won't be able to save them with 100% accuracy either because they will die before getting to your magician.

Dwarf Fortress is much too lethal for magical healing to even get close to making it "less lethal"

It depends on the lethal. Missing limbs? Maybe not. Infection? Ayup.
And you're assuming that magicians won't be sent to within magic-range of battle...

If you are sending your magician, with healing magic, into magic range of battle then you deserve the healing bonus because you are risking that magician's grizzly death.

Mind you most of your soldiers are going to die anyway since battle is STILL that lethal.

Couldn't healers heal each other?

Look, can you agree that the ability to easily heal grevious wounds would reduce DF's lethality, especially if it could also heal infection?

Excellent. That's about half of the woodcutting mechanics. How about tree regrowth rate? I was thinking of abstracting the size of forests as two numbers, current number of trees and maximum number of trees, and have regrowth rate be the average of those numbers, divided by 10, per year. Does this number, or at least the mathematical concept behind it, sound okay?

And does anyone know how long it takes a tree to reach maturity in, say, Canada?

lol I'm not making things easy xD

You are, however, participating. Which reminds me, I need to change some fiefs to NPC...

I have 170 smelters.
So that leaves 67 to turn iron into steel.

You said 3 iron to between 1-2 steel so If I say 3 Iron makes 1.5 units of steel?
I can work out how much steel I'll make each month myself if that ratio works for you.

That could work. Remember, you also need a unit of charcoal for the steel...so I need to finalize the logging rules...

10 units of wood per tree and 10 trees per woodcutter per month sound okay?

Oh, dear. Private, prepare for some zero-G medicine.
Get on my vacc suit, just in case, and check every few minutes for anywhere I can help.