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I loaded up the save game file:

I noticed that you also have human migrants, and that this is a reclaim fort. I think there may be a bug with reclaiming a fort. Someone else should try to abandon and reclaim a different fort.

Vulkanis, why were dwarves killing dwarves in the legends mode records for your fort? Tantrum, berserk, justice, or loyalty cascade?

Combat logs, announcements, or examination of the scene of death provide the best cause-of-death info. Make notes on a piece of paper as they happen.

Partial skeletons or mutilated corpses result from having limbs removed. This can be from slashing weapons, falling from a great height, or a very strong blunt impact.

Otherwise, I don't think so. "Wear marks" would indicate that the corpse is partially burned or frozen. If it has a water coating, it was out in the rain, or inside in the well.

I think I'm gonna tame the GCS, chain it, and then build a long hallway in front of it full of cages.  Titan goes to smash bug, bug shoots webs, titan GET!

...This is a creature made entirely of water, that shoots... deadly spittle, or something...

... that shoots... deadly spittle...

Had the notion to create a fort with no stairs, only ramps. Had problems.

Is there a way to dig from a lower Z-level to a higher one, using only ramps? I'd like to set up some towers with an alternating Z-level design so that they're climbable by ramps all the way up, but that doesn't seem to be possible unless I use stairs to have miners go up to the higher of the two Z-levels and dig ramps down.

I'm assuming no, because a dwarf standing on a ramp is considered to be on the lower of the two Z-levels the ramp spans (is this correct?), and can't climb to the next Z-level without an adjacent empty space on the upper Z-level, but can't dig out an empty space above while he's still standing below.

There's got to be some sort of clever way to get around this, right?

Designate a ramp on the lower level, and designate "dig/mine" on the upper level, next to the ramp (not directly above).


This is a repeating pattern for a spiral ramp tower:
1     2     3     4

█     ▲█    ▼▲     ▼
▲▼    ▼      █    █▲


After designating a ramp to be dug, go to the z level above it and designate a channel on the tile directly above the ramp. Then you can dig across as normal.

You don't need to designate both a ramp and a channel.

I just checked, and you do get this if you attempt to post in a old topic:

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So there isn't an ignorance excuse for necromancy.

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5769445/helsinkis-underground-shadow-city

http://www.wdc2012helsinki.fi/en/news/world%E2%80%99s-first-underground-city-plan

Tunnels everywhere through bedrock. How dwarfy. Nobody *lives* down there, AFAIK, but there are factories and swimming pools. It is not just basement levels, but a secondary underground transportation and utility network. At 4:55 in the video on the first link, it says the tunnel network is 70m (230 ft) underground and shows a picture of a very tall spiral staircase. That's roughly equivalent to the distance from the surface to the first cavern in DF.

   
These body modifiers give individual dwarves different characteristics.  In the case of HEIGHT, BROADNESS and LENGTH, the modifier is also a percentage change to the BODY_SIZE of the individual creature.  The seven numbers afterward give a distribution of ranges.  Each interval has an equal chance of occurring.

   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:75:95:98:100:102:105:125]
      [APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:500]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:75:95:98:100:102:105:125]
      [APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:500]

Since a cow has:

   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]

Statistics tells me that 68% of all cattle are between 0.90 and 1.10 times their base size, and that 95% of all cattle are between 0.80 and 1.20 times the base size. The maximum and minimum size multipliers are 0.73 and 1.33.

Its worth noting that the biggest possible rabbit or cavy is still too small to yield more than a skull.

Fat has the [THICKENS_ON_ENERGY_STORAGE] token, and muscle has the [THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH] token, but there is no info that I can find on how that all works. "...with great muscles and copious amounts of lard
" descriptions should mean more fat/meat, but how much more?

You can also drop an obsidian wall square into the ocean, drain the inside of the square, build a city, and then drop the wall into the ocean floor. You don't need to keep the entire ocean drained, which is a real FPS killer.