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You could also theoretically support your dwarves constantly through milking, I think, if you bred enough milkable creatures.  But there would be the problem of fey moods...  you need to be there to supply the things they request, and even aside from that, what if someone takes over an important workshop?  Its queue will be blanked when they're done with it no matter if they succeed or not.

You can slap people with it.

...well, you can throw it at them, anyway.  In adventurer mode.

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Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>It's mostly a problem during the first year.  I tried to stagger the sleep times a bit, since that ones particularly boring, but it doesn't seem to have been enough yet.  A speed up option is doable but might seem deceptive later in the game when the screen refreshes cease to be the bottleneck on many computers (my 2.59 anyway).</STRONG>

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You could make dwarves less likely to go to sleep based on the percentage of dwarves currently sleeping.  It makes a certain sense...  someone has to keep the night watch.

I think that we need the ability to make coins out of meat.

Why not have the option to set any door as your main gate?

For the record...

You can get wood from mushrooms underground.  To do this, dig out a large area near the river, as large as you dare.  You don't need to worry about manually flooding this area; the river's natural floods will do.  Eventually mushrooms will start to grow in the resulting mud.  It takes about 3 years for one to reach maturity so you can harvest it, but once you have them going more will be reaching maturity every year.

Is it even possible to train undead?  I don't see why it would be.  Even if you feed them tasty, tasty brains while they're in the cage, they're still going to attack you when you let them out.

Maybe if you had access to magic or mysticism...  some sort of ancient Dwarven scriptures or runes or a Dwarven priest or somesuch...

I think we really need only one thing:  A 'clearing' job that has dwarves clear away rocks (or other items) that are in the way of construction, blocking major passages, and so forth by moving them to a stockpile.  Whenever a floor plan is dropped, any untagged items on the floor that would cause problems for it get clear jobs set on them...  Any items left in a doorway would get automatic clear jobs.  If too many dwarves walk over an item in a short time period and it's just lying on the floor outside of a stockpile, it could also get a clear job.

With this, stone wouldn't be such a big problem... dwarves would clean it up when it's in the way without having to worry about all the stone in distant mines.

I would really rather not see anything done that reduces the rock supply.  I don't know what other people are doing, but I've run out of rocks almost as often as I've run low on wood.  I've been forced to shave the front of the cliff and dig out large lines just to get enough rocks to keep going.

...I should mention that I have two craftsmen doing rock/wood crafts and one mason churning out doors, blocks, tables, thrones, and other items at all times.  And, also, I have covered huge portions of my fortress with rock-fall traps, built numerous rock bridges, and used rocks most of the workshops I produce.  But this is partially because I know I can always get more so easily...

I think you people just aren't taking advantage of the things you can do with rocks.  Rock-fall traps are a decent and easy defense; putting a coffer and a cabinet in each dwarf's room is going to be helpful later on. Putting a masterwork table and chair in each will help keep dwarves happy even more. Your halls should have rock doors everywhere, since they provide a little security, will protect you a bit against nasty things like floods and miasmas, and can be used to lock off insane or tantruming dwarves.