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Make him your hammerer. He might never stop trying and failing to clean himself at the water's edge, but who knows. Of course you might still get some tantrums when he rips the throat out of a bunch of haulers for dissing a mandate.

The insistence of my dwarves in picking up bins full of multiple sets of steel armor, dragging them all the way to the surface, and onto the battlefield so they can put a helm that one of my military dwarves randomly dropped back in the bin. It isn't just after battles of course, dwarves going off training like to leave armor and weapons scattered about, so of course what must be done is to drag up the bins from my guarded armory to put it all back.

Once they do this, they seem to realize the futility of the whole operation and just leave the bin there, so that days later some other dwarf can remember that there's about 50,000 dwarfbucks of valuable armor sitting on the surface and maybe they ought to put it back in the stockpile.

They monkey around with weapon bins in the same way. Every time I want to make a weapon trap, I have to wait and pray that they stop dragging around the bins long enough for me to designate some deadly implements for my traps. Half the time all I have available is a few large daggers, when I know I've got large serrated blades and giant axe blades floating around somewhere.

I suppose I could remedy this somewhat by splitting up my weapon and armor stockpiles more. If I had one for steel battle axes, one for iron, etc, then they'd logically be dragging around less full bins, at least. On the other hand every time they do that, we'd lose access to all our spare steel battle axes all at once, and I'd have dwarves going on-duty being unarmed and possibly not finding a weapon to use before going into combat. I've set all my axe dwarves to chop wood, but they still like to drop their axes when they go on/off duty, and all my other military dwarves are out of luck.

I'm tempted to go without bins altogether, but I don't think I have the space. I've already tried adding wheelbarrows in the hopes that this way only a single dwarf per stack would be running around swiftly with the wheelbarrow, but this only works for bin retrieval. My other haulers are still dragging the bins by hand up six flights of stairs and then dropping them out in the barracks or out in the field, only the trip back is quickened and now I only have as many dwarves taking them back into the stockpile as I assign wheelbarrows to that stockpile.

Maybe at some point Toady can implement the destruction of body parts if they're raised up and broken down enough. Or just a random chance that they get destroyed any time they're 'killed' again, so that the items don't have to track any additional info such as how many times they've been raised. Or perhaps they can simply become ineligible for necromancy after a few times.

Though it might be fine if there was just more of a delay between raisings, so that you have a chance of dumping them down a pit or something.

I can't believe no one suggested this. The solution is magma. It doesn't leave teeth, hair, skin, arms, heads, or anything else for that matter that can be resurrected.

It does take time to get the magma up to your depot, I know, but it sounds like you've got the undead locked out so you could just hold them off until you're ready.

Or it could be much faster to just build a magma-flooding room just above the magma sea or some other convenient location, so you'd only need one pump to flood it (or a retractable bridge over the magma sea, if you don't need to recover magma-safe items on the invaders), and dig a passage up to the outside from there that has to go through the trapped room.

I'm of the opinion that fighting the undead while there are still necromancers about is indeed foolish, especially if the necros are scripted to avoid melee dwarves (so the chances of sending a suicide-dwarf out there to spot them isn't even very good). If this were the old DF versions where training champions was simple, I'm sure a military solution would be the best option, but it takes damn near forever to get skilled military dwarves now.

Stop making meals, stop farming, use your Dwarves for other labors.

Maybe keep a locked storeroom full of meals so that if you forget to ever re-enable food production, you can quickly fix it when your Dwarves get hungry again. Of course it could take the better part of a century to run out.

First of all, I'd like to say that there's no ironclad reason to not let you settle in mountains by default, though it could cause issues, but I did want to point out some things.

For one, traders should be using wagons in the newest version, I've seen this myself in some of my recent forts, though I haven't had a chance to really play since about 34_02. You could eventually smooth out a path no matter where you are, but only to the edge of your local map.

Eventually, immigrant and trader off-map pathing will probably be an issue. There's already historical figures implemented in many capacities, and at some point there will be patrols, settlements, armies, etc that move around on the world map and could reach your fort.

Personally I find mountains to be hard to embark on right now, as there tends to be a dizzying number of Z level changes.

All in all I'd like to see Embark Anywhere as an option you can enable in the init files, turned off by default of course.

For some reason dumping from the stocks screen never works right for me. I have to mass-claim, dump the whole stockpile, then use the stocks screen to un-dump all the clothing, armor and cages.

I'm pretty sure you can go into the cage from the map and tag-dump the individual items directly.

I tried this and it didn't work.  The goblin ripped out their eyes   Now they're blind

Blind Justice for Armok!

Seriously now that they're blind, it should take a lot less goblins to get them up to legendary.

What's you guys' normal checklist before breaching the caverns?

I usually try to dig out a big area of soil underground, in a convenient location. It trains up my miners so they waste a lot less ore as they excavate the rest of my fort, and once I breach the caverns my subterranean forest / pasture can get started right away.