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If you have an issue like this again, here's what I suggest you do:

1. Save the game.
2. Close DF.
3. Open your DF folder's data/save sub-folder.
4. Locate the folder with the save you're having issues with.
5. Compress it, somehow. I don't know your computer, so you're on your own here.
6. Go to DFFD.
7. Sign up if you haven't and upload the .zip or whatever of your save folder.
8. Post again around here, with a link to the DFFD page with your save file on it.
9. Try not to change the save too much while you wait for results.

Also, if you have set the wood stockpile to give wood to the carpenter's shop, the carpenter will not use wood lying around outside the stockpile.
Check the options menu again.  By default Dwarves gather everything except outdoor refuse.  Is it possible that you actually turned off wood gathering rather than turning it on?

The "set the carpenter's workshop to take wood from the stockpile" thing seems likely. That option makes the carpenter's workshop ONLY use wood in the wood stockpile; otherwise, they'll use the closest wood to the dwarf.

I'd imagine it was the troll. Unless you forgot to have the herbalist gather any plants.

So...Reclaim?

I have been thinking about doing something with skulls. Or somethings. Therefore, I have a few questions about things I'm not terribly familiar with as far as modding goes.

1. How would I make the skull out of a different material than bone? For the sake of the argument, let's say I want to be able to make a creature's skull out of either fat or iron.
2. How do those butcher item thingies work? Can I choose any item? If I made a creature's bone be spears, would it be one spear per bone that would normally exist?
3. Actually, can the butcher item of a material be changed on a creature be changed on a creature-by-creature basis?

Why kill the necromancer? If I ever catch one, it's being used as an anti-siege weapon. How many goblins can withstand the might of a never-dying army of the undead, fueled by the corpses and skeletons of their predecesors, with every goblin that dies adding another soldier to the army? Once the siege is routed, I'd seal off the necromancer and let the militia clean up the (now de-geared and easily collapsed) zombie horde a bit at a time. Or something.

I guess it's an interesting mental...excersise? Game? Whatever it is, if it's not a suggestion, it should be moved.

Not sure about limiting pauses, but not sure how else it would be handled. The idea of not autopausing during designations and such would help, I guess.

So, legendary workers turning into more lazy demanding nobles.  For the sake of verisimilitude, when it actually goes against verisimilitude.  Where was the up side?

...You know, while that wasn't my intent, I can see where you're coming from. I was just listing off a bunch of stuff that could happen as dwarves age. I certainly didn't mean to imply that all of that happens to every dwarf over the age of 50.

Old people teach children, dont they? Atleast the ones where I live do.
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"Happy to be lectured by a elder recently."
"Unhappy to be bored by a elder recently."
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"Angered by a unruly child recently."
"Happy to see the youth at work."

Good idea.

Dwarfs retire? Not likely. Its not that they could not. Its just that they would not want to.
Dwarfs love working. I cant imagine them not wanting to work.

I can imagine them not being able to work. After all, in our modern day and age, with our advanced medicine, the body really starts deteriorating before most reach 60. With dwarves, between their more limited medical skills, more strenuous lifestyle, poorer diet (probably), lower vitamin D intake, and so forth, these issues would arise more and earlier (unless dwarves are supposed to live longer thn humans...although, human lifespans are a bit long in DF for medieval times). Just adding something to simulate like lowering speed and physical attributes gradually once a creature reaches about the halfway point in its maximum lifespan? would help these issues. Of course, there would also need to be some AI changes to elderly dwarves, like trying to pass on their knowledge, to balance out this and other disadvantages to the elderly. While they might sleep longer and take more breaks, the elderly might talk to people around them when they're not working, raising the listeners' skills; ideally, idlers related to or friends with the senior (or bored ones) would actively try to listen. Letting an old, retired axedwarf relax in the meeting hall and talk about his career in wax working and how he got drafted might mean children grow up as wax workers and/or with axedwarf and other combat skills! How is that not great?

Quote from: Sheb on June 12, 2012, 02:32:58 am

Anyway, how many dwarves have you seen die of old age anyway. It's not like it's a common occurence.

Depends on how you run your forts, I've managed to see my dwarves die of old age.

Certainly, they should. Eventually. Once/If we get dwarven forts to not fall in under a decade to various causes. Especially since few people IRL reach "max age" before succumbing to some age-related complication (cancer, arthritis, alzheimers, etc), especially in ages where these conditions didn't lead to special care.
Certainly, things like this should be considered in worldgen.