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Well, the necromancer could help the farmer feed its pet bunny...once devouring flesh is implemented, at least.

I used to think about things that would improve DF, but then I realised the Toady has the mind of Einstein, Socrates, Newton, Jesus and Billy Bob Jimbo from down the road. He's made a game that I would never have comprehended existing. Any of my ideas would be a complete waste of his golden time. 

Putting aside the massive psychological difficulties from having the mind of a Jewish Austrian (or German?) mathematician who fled to America; an ancient Greek philosopher; an early physicist, albeit a brilliant one; a man who kicked off Christianity and was of indeterminate and unmentioned intelligence; and whom I assume is a hillbilly; such a man would NOT know much about computers, nor resemble Toady much. Toady's more like the modern equivalent of those 40d bookkeepers who kept working and became unspeakably awesome about figuring stuff out and such along the way.

Well, first off, even if a goblin civ is (in legends numbers) reduced to three goblins and their pet troll, they will still be able to send countless ambushes and thieves, and sieges of dozens of goblins and squads of trolls.

Second off, if you're feeling daring give them a new metal, high combat skills, larger size, or something. Or just make them breed faster or murder less or something.

Nothing, he keeps getting interrupted by the bunny.

What would Urist do if trapped in his room by a nearby magma flood that doesn't flood his room?

Social issues, like class warfare, disobedience, crime, and such should evolve over time. If you delay in setting up justice, criminals and crime might get firmly entrenched in your little fortress, causing future waves to consist more and more of only the truly desperate and those who feel they can control this wretched hive of scum and villainy (too late to add trope links...), which would only increase your social issues. On the other hand, being vigilant in stamping out crime and sloth would cause your settlement to become a beacon of hope and power throughout the land, and your main issues would be expanding this system to accommodate the swelling hordes of migrants. Basically, effort at first should lead to different and simpler problems later.

...That meandered fast.

Someone did a bunch of experiments about how far one had to fall to die. The thread got locked due to what can be described as Nazi jokes, IIRC, but the data is still somewhere. I'm pretty sure all the subjects that fell at least 10-12 levels died on or shortly after impact. I also think that there was a good amount of splatter at the upper end of the tests (20 zl), but I don't remember.

To my knowledge, military officers above "militia commander" are basically different only in worldgen. And while aristo- and bureaucrats are different by the jobs they do, that's about it. I'd like to be able to have more control over that stuff via modding--traders/brokers could easily be either kind, for instance.