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I ask because I never designated one and none of my grazing animals are dying off. The meeting area is near a bunch of moss and grass though. If they don't need to be in a designated pasture, it will cut down on micromanaging because they will just find their own food.

I have an embark where the magma sea started slowly emptying. Additionally, for some reason, it appears to be draining through the SMR (despite there being no visible holes) and hell, then off the bottom of the map, going through huge eerie glowing pits. I've never seen an eerie glowing pit myself, but the pit itself and every square above it, all the way to the top of hell has the falling magma graphic. Or is the magma just draining off the edge of the map? Does it have to do with the fact that I used reveal?

I'll post the save in a couple minutes.

I'm trying to remake my stairs because I dug into the top of a wide open cavern. However, they keep cancelling the construction because there are rocks on the spot where they are trying to build it. The rocks are not forbidden or set for dumping, but if I move the rocks beforehand, they can build it. Before they would always move unmarked rocks automatically. Why are they suddenly being more retarded than normal?

I had a runin with a forgotten beast with a dust attack. It killed a couple of dogs and a bunch of dwarves got hit with the dust. One of them also got a ripped tendon, but I digress. They all have a flashing white "X" and won't move. Why aren't they requesting a diagnosis and how can I fix the issue?

edit: it seems they were stunned, but there is also a bunch of forgotten beast extract all over the floor. It's all frozen, somehow, and it's all in the caverns. Why is this? Is it still dangerous? Will it ever unfreeze?

I just started a new .18 fort (haven't upgraded to .19 yet). It was a rough start. Much of the meat I embarked with rotted because I didn't get it out of the quantum dump fast enough. Farming got a late start because the river was frozen for most of the spring. Food ran out soon because I forgot to process the quarry bush leaves, and some of the dwarves were eating vermin to fill their bellies. The dwarven caravan had come and gone and I was about to start up my metal industry, only to realize I somehow didn't have an anvil. I had already had a few snatchers which succeeded in stealing a star ruby and 2 children, so I hastily drafted my 2 miners into the militia and set up a danger room. Lacking an anvil, I resorted to crafting leather armor, only to find out I somehow didn't have any of that either. So I had to quickly make some bolts and a crossbow to give to some dwarf so he could hunt. I got 2 groundhog leather armor made up for my miners before the first ambush, coming in behind the elves. Some mostly useless dwarf died revealing the ambush, so I sent out the miners. Though highly skilled in fighting and mining, I was worried about their safety. Lucky for me, picks made from something as cheap as copper are still mighty weapons, and they slaughtered half of the ambush, causing the remaining goblins to run like scared little elves. And now, I find myself buying wooden armor from the tree hugging hippies. And now my bonecrafter is asking for shells.

Fun indeed.

Obviously the strength of the dwarf matters, but what is the "weapon size" of the limb, if there is one at all? Does striking/kicking have a velocity multiplier? Is the damage increased by wearing hand/footwear? Does the material of the limb affect the attack? Is there a way to mod weapons that use unarmed skills (striking, kicking, wrestling)? Would the size of this weapon add itself to the size of the limb, or be considered by itself?

My danger room is 1X1 and I have 23 military dwarves all using the same danger room. However, just recently I've noticed that they all seem to teleport out of the room when too many dwarves get inside. Is this normal and what does this mean to our beloved dwarven physics?

I didn't know if it would go in modding or here, so here it is. I have recently equipped several new recruits with whips. In game they are referred to as "lashers", but in dwarf therapist, it lists them as having pike skill instead. This is affecting all of my lashers and nothing else. Is this a known bug or is there some way to fix it? It's not causing a problem per say, it's more of a curiosity thing.