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I've started the castes. Average ogres learn all skills slower than non-ogres do; there are also warrior ogres, who learn military skills faster and other skills slower; laborers, who learn skills requiring little but labor much faster and other skills much slower; mad ogres, who are good at mechanics and medicine but bad at most other things; nobles, who are good at artistic and social pursuits but despise manual labor; and the rare-but-valuable healers, who...heal. I'm still working on the nitty-gritty parts, like actually messing with the skill rates and adding in male versions of most castes, but I have a plan. I'm considering having the ogres have different eye colors based on caste, something like:
I think this'll be neat. Maybe I'll add some hair colors by caste, too:
I'll also have varied skin tones. Soon, ogre descriptions will be interesting to look at!

I have two questions relating to the tribe of bat men I just noticed in my cavern.

1. Is there any tool that would allow me to make them friendly?
2. If so, would it make them able to work for me?

1.) Either [CAN_SPEAK] or [INTELLIGENT] will keep dwarves from butchering the corpses. Replace [INTELLIGENT] with [CAN_LEARN] and, unless you try to chat with some gobbos in adventure mode, the only difference is that you can butcher them.
2.) Dwarves will not butcher dwarves, regardless of their ethics.
3.) Try dropping live goblins off a high ledge, to explode them into a ton of little bits which will then decay into useable bones. Do this with visiting merchants if you want.

He is different, but the AI might be waiting a while. See, while better AI is very important, new features are, in Toady's book, very-er important. Also, I'd bet my artifact adamantine sword against a hunk of kangaroo cheese* that DF players will outsmart and find some way to exploit any AI that will be finished in a shorter time than the 40d and DF2012 updates combined, although I'd try to hold out for more.
*How do you even milk kangaroos?

Such as? Treasure rooms guarded by cursed monsters? Civs of forgotten beasts bearing magical gear? Sieges of underground animalfolk with a few cotton candy/whatever weapons scattered amongst themselves? Bunnies?[url]

You should be more specific.

Okay, I mean it this time--there's a poll where you can vote on what you want me to add next.

The problem is that my adventurer is passing out from exhaustion despite the fact that over the past...three in-game days?, he's had less than a dozen turns. Despite not having any armor, all that's happened is that all of his limbs are disabled (except enough to scratch with one hand, somehow--and bite, of course) and that he was blinded for a while.

So...yeah, I'm putting up a poll for what to do next.