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I could use five outgoing stockpiles in rough proportion to what I think other burrows need, so they don't completely plunder the producing burrow or rob the other receiving burrows. I may need to distinguish five more of different items, in different proportions, so the taking stockpiles aren't overcrowding some essentials with others. Currently, only one set of custom options is saved, so I'd only have to sift through configurations twice and just paint squares.

Unless I later needed another instance of the first set. After doing this many times, I'd have to take close reference of the original stockpile options and painstakingly switch them over. If the outgoing proportions just need tweaking, I couldn't resize the square, nor could I copy all settings to a different square and delete the original.

But why squares? Maybe I need to shove a workshop into tight space, but have a few empty tiles I can use through a nearby doorway, which may later need a door built into it. The same paint operations burrows use would add some helpful flexibility.

I've got a body made of green glass that keeps popping up in refuse piles everywhere, and of course it's magma-proof, so unless I atomsmash it, it'll be a permanent fixture as the white elephant of the dead piles.

But before I do that, surely there's got to be something cool I can use it for. It's green glass, already made and since it lived at least a milenia, it's probably tough enough to be humanoid-shaped (or dwarfoid-shaped?)

There was a thread (that I would be able to find with a better forum search) about how to bring back the elven diplomat. It included some raw edits that would bring diplomats capable of establishing trade agreements from all races. Does anyone have the info in the thread, or just the title of the original thread?

The second cavern floor is covered in mud, but there's no life whatsoever; none of the trees or herbs that are growing in first and third cavern. I'd poured water down a passage I dug that direction, and much of it leaked out onto the floor there. There are caps and plants growing all along that passage, which goes the same depth as that floor and deeper, but still nothing is growing in the cavern that was drenched.

What would be the cause of this? Some kind of vermin? Toxic gasses or disease?

Buildable from nothing, or perhaps as a kit included with embark gear. Since newbies are likely to set it up exposed and in the open, could be buildable, removeable and moveable in no time. Basically it gives a list of one-time jobs that can be done from the moment they're available and all pre-reqs for them are met, with links from the job selection and active queue to a descriptive help file. Some of them actually set the job active for a dwarf to take, some are just a nudge to try it. Players can set the availability on or off in options or init file.

Instead of facing new players with a massive list of commands with a big database to research, this guides them through hands-on execution of every task, when they're most practical and necessary.

A friendly human hunter was watching the dwarves pave an obsidian road and I thought, "Come on in! Marvel in the splendor of our city! We've got friendly, ecstatic folks who are highly proud of the place!"

Hm. Business opportunity. Why export prepared meals when we can keep them to serve locally? Come on in, we'd be happy to serve you. You just need a passport (25 silver, includes entry fee) for unlimited travel (to be renewed bi-annually.) You can enjoy legendary dining in our cavern-rim cafe, delighting in the polished gold and gemstone walls scintillating through the waterfalls (please observe standard evacuation procedures during invasions.)

I suppose if we lose enough tourists to 'accidents', their homeland may respond with embargos, compensation demands, or military force.

I've got enough sets to equip two units, but I'm kind of hesitant with their armor use skill; they're already pretty slow in chain. What's a good skill level to grauate them to plate? Should they wear it with chain or leather, or can they wear all three?