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Nothing. He'd fail to notice the difference...and start working slower and slower...

What would Urist do if he had to choose between pulling a lever to keep goblins out of the fortress and pulling another lever to flood the caverns with magma, destroying the farms and killing a few farmers and several crundles?

I'd sugestr putting tags around the code, so that people can copy/paste the raws more easily.

What happens if two dwarves are married, and the husband becomes a woman? (Males don't give birth, so if the opposite happened neither would give birth, but would two married women both give birh?)

...Oh, god, what's happened to me? I wasn't always this crazy!

Ok, another round of questions. I really do recieve a lot more feedback with these batch threads, instead of asking everything one by one in the modding-questions thread. So, here we go:

I'll do my best.

#1. I have a dwarven caste that should not appear ever. never ever anywhere, except with a custom reaction. Setting the pop-ratio to 0 does not seem to work, since they still arrive with migrants or traders occasionally. Any other ideas ?

Nope, although I would have thought that'd work...

#2. My trees/plants do not die when a brushfire is burning all around them. I am not aware of changing anything temperature related in the plant files though...

That's normal.

#3. I would like a interaction that targets only the caster, is used in fortress mode by the AI and can only be done once a month. It sould add a syndrome to the caster. So far I had not a lot of luck with testing.

I don't have any clue with interactions.

#4. I want kids to instantly become adults. I have this in the creature file, but it doesnt work.
   [CHILD:0:2][BABY:0:1]
   [BODY_SIZE:0:1:2000]
   [BODY_SIZE:0:2:65000]
   [BODY_SIZE:0:3:65000]

Try something like:
   [CHILD:0]
   [BODY_SIZE:0:0:65000]
This will make them grow up instantly and be full-sized from birth, unless it doesn't.

#5. How to remove mounts from invaders ? They dont even have any tags for animals/mounts/pets, still they bring mounts.

Try removing the tags that give them cave animals, domestic animals, etc.

#6. I have a reaction that procudes ropes directly from rope reed. Sadly, they are called "chains". Here the reaction:

[REACTION:MAKE_INK]
[NAME:make black ink from ash]
[BUILDING:SCRIPTORIUM:CUSTOM_I]
[REAGENT:A:1:ASH:NONE] <= is this the correct form ?

No, it should be [REAGENT:A:150:BAR:NONE:ASH:NONE].

[REAGENT:B:1:ITEM_TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_JUG:NONE:NONE]
[PRODUCT:100:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:INORGANIC:INK][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150][PRODUCT_TO_CONTAINER:B]
[SKILL:TEACHING]

...Is this the one that makes rope reed chains? If not, then check to make sure you're having them made out of rope reed fiber (thread) and not the structural stuff.

#7. This is a reaction that should store a metal ore in a container and later retrieve it. Somehow I get errorlogs, no matter what I do. The reagent is correct, but the product does not work.

[REAGENT:K:1:METAL_ORE:IRON]
[PRODUCT:100:1:METAL_ORE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:K:NONE][PRODUCT_TO_CONTAINER:container]

I'm not sure. What errors?

It should depend on vampire type, his/her personality, and the situation. A sufficiently hungry or stupid vampire will just munch on whoever's nearest, maybe without even waiting for them to go to sleep first. Another vampire might randomly hate jewlers and thus targets them above all others. A third could feed only on children and the lazy, so as to not affect the working of the fortress. A fourth might be interested in chaos, and thus targets food producers, miners, and friendly dwarves while leaving the fortress guard intact, perhaps smashing furniture occasionally, feighning a tantrum. A fifth might pick off everyone higher on the social ladder than him, especially if he's a noble. A sixth might try and convince young adult dwarves of the opposite sex to be fed on willingly, sparkles optional. A seventh might slaughter sleeping dwarves whenever he has some spare time, just because he's bored (maybe this could happen with non-vampires?). And so forth.

In my first evil-biome fort (on an evil glacier which rained nausea-causing acrid slime), I tried digging a corpse-containing moat around my fortress entrance to keep the zombies out. Bad choice; they just climbed out. Next fort, same glacier, I dug out a little underground room, pastured my yaks in there, and sealed off all the exits. I dumped corpses down a chute. I still lost, thanks to my dwarves deciding that such things as cleaning their vomit up were more important than chucking corpses down the chute. Shoulda turned off cleaning, but I hadn't ever seen a dwarf clean up anything except molten ice before.

There is a good anti-bogey strategy I've heard of: Chop off its limbs. Evidently, if you land a good hit on them, it can be relatively easy to chop off legs or even bisect them. Although they dodge a lot...That should probably be toned down some.

Sponge men are smaller than giant sponges and can be decapitated or bisected, so they are actually LESS dangerous than giant sponges.