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They're annoying because they're all or nothing. If you don't know how to breach an aquifer and aren't on a site that freezes, you make a functional surface fortress while you try and figure it out. If you do know how to breach an aquifer, it's a speed bump.For me, unless I embark in an unusually cold area or find a good spot to make a cave-in plug, I pretty much don't get stone.
It does make you wonder what the purpose of Dwarven colonies is though, since you always seem to be importing raw materials (lumber, ore, metal), and selling crafts. Do the mountainhomes have only the most basic of industries? I thought the purpose of colonies was to provide raw materials for the homeland. You won't get very far in DF though selling logs and metal bars. Maybe the purpose of the dwarven settlements is just to create new places for dwarves to live, and this effort is being heavily subsidized by the MountainHome. Why else would the traders be willing to give you bars of pure shining steel in exchange for a few tattered pigtail cloaks? Maybe the Mountainhomes are starting to invent paper, and are scrounging up all of the loose fiber they can get their hands on.Hm....maybe this is bow the Mountainhomes dump their parasites?
