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I thought Golden Ages where when there were no wars going on, rather than no megabeasts.

No, it's when civilized beings rule the world unquestioned, ie no megabeasts terrorize them. War is civilized, especially the way worldgen does it.

Making rock block walls is more efficient than raising rock block bridges.

10x1-tile bridge: I think three blocks, maybe four, plus one rock for a mechanism to raise it and one for a mechanism for connecting to the lever. Three rocks total. This doesn't account for the mechanism to build the lever, BTW.
10-tile wall: 10 blocks, 2-1/2 rocks total.

Walls also don't require architects, mechanics, or lever-pullers; a tile of wall has two jobs, make rock blocks and build building; the former is split between four chunks of wall, so it's more like 1.25 jobs/tile. The bridge needs a mason to make blocks, a mechanic to make mechanisms twice, an architect to design the bridge, a mason to build it, a mechanic to link up the bridge (effectively two jobs), and someone to pull the lever (which I won't count, to be nice and account for the above choice of counting). That's 7 jobs...okay, 0.7/tile, but still, you need to runfrom fort to bridge a lot. Also, your walls are susceptible to gremlins and crazy dwarves, not to menti0on forgetfulness.

...Burrow? Something with paths opening up?

I don't think that normally adopting critters merits an announcement (although cats adopting dwarves does), and I know that the chicks will only be adopted if the vampire likes chickens.

Look at suspicious dwarves for lack of food/drink/sleep-related thoughts and needing alcohol.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 08, 2012, 07:14:21 am

Wait, werebeast militia bad?

No hunger, thirst, or injury...turns into an elephant/dwarf thing every month...axe lord...sweet.

* They hunger
* They thirst
* They injure
    *They just don't really mind it in the long term.

Also it's better to train them as a wrestler/biter first, then give them a weapon to specialize in. They become unstoppable.

Supposedly, thirst and hunger get cured by transformations, and werebeasts transform often enough to avoid death by either.

Quote from: Loud Whispers on September 08, 2012, 01:33:24 pm

Quote from: pisskop on September 08, 2012, 12:53:43 pm

Suppose its no weirder than a 28year old child...

BURN IT IMMEDIATELY IT IS A VAMPIRE

No.  He became an adult on his next (first at the fortress) birthday, according to the person that got him as a migrant.

It's a worldgen migrant bug.

Maybe make them milkable for their alcoholic blood?

Hm, that's right. Of course, we're not going to expect everything from 1400 and earlier in--at least I won't. Still, with the number of signs with writing on them in human towns and such, a high literacy rate is inferrable.