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Ok. So, uh, Mr. Whitman, and while I'm at it, Mr. Lincoln? I just want you to know, I really actually do feel bad about this. I'm genuinely a terrible person.


O Catten! My Catten! the darksome hole is dug;
The glowing pits are emptied, and the the soldiers loiter, smug;
Plump helmet roasts and sunshine toasts and children throwing parties
While stout arms lade the minecarts with a great "Heave-ho, my hearties!"

But O heart! heart! heart!
O face so pale and wan
For 'neath his pick my Catten lies
His upper body's gone.

O Catten! My Catten! 'Twere best you did not rise
This biome isn't evil, though our captured necro tries.
But would you walked, for now your name is trumpeted in glory
Your sacrifice was meet; it made a nifty fortress story.

O Catten! Dear Miner!
Bedecked with cabochon
Your monument is honored, but
Your upper body's gone.

My Catten does not answer, his braided beard is still;
I have not found his lower leg, and fear I never will;
The pick with which the tube he pierced, and victory presaged
We'll place within his tomb, soon as a hauler can be paged.

Exult, O dwarves, and fill the halls!
But I this denoument
Shall memorize, as Catten lies:
His upper body's gone.

I gave the sword  to Rovod
And I said to keep it well,
That she may learn the warrior's ways
And face invaders fell.

The sword was forged of adamant,
With blood-parched edges dread
But when at last the foe arrived,
She used her child instead.

My most recent fort turned out to be Fikodkôn, Glazemaster, on a volcano with clay. So I figured, all right, this is my chance to live up to the name.

433 ash-glazed large pots and a lot of deforestation later, I finally figured out that there's a bug that prevents the glazing skill from ever training.

I've been poking my military in the butt with sticks for a year now, and they're all pretty much superdwarves. Well...almost all. There's one who just refuses to improve. I started thinking maybe she hasn't shown up for training at all, so I finally decided to go see why.

Well, I found out.

She's dead.

She's dead, but she's still assigned to the squad, and I can hit s > p, select her name, and try to order her around, or zoom to her. It zooms to an empty corridor. She also still shows up in Therapist.

She's in a coffin that, given its location, looks to have been one of the first few to be filled.

I've had a dead axedwarf in my crack squad for, apparently, a really long time.

I'm not entirely sure what to do about this.

The caravan from the Mountainhome brought a («+pig tail fiber right mitten+»), for which they're asking the ridiculous price of 5377☼, that has an image of a historical event I've never seen before.

On the item is a finely-designed image of Vabôk Spreadpillars the dwarf and dwarves in yellow zircon. The dwarves are refusing Vabôk Spreadpillars. Vabôk Spreadpillars is making a submissive gesture. The artwork relates to the end of the membership of the dwarf Vabôk Spreadpillars in The Tongs of Eviscerating in the early spring of 252.

Most of the horrific atrocities these little creeps get up to are either ignored by dwarf society or provoke a hammerin'. What in Armok's name would a dwarf have to do to get thrown out?

Has anyone gotten it to work with pottery? It recognizes TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_LARGE_POT/CLAY  or TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_LARGE_POT//CERAMIC_STONEWARE, but it always says "No jobs" even though I've got repeating jobs set up in my kilns and magma kilns.

To summarize the thread so far:

What shall we do with a goblin general?
What shall we do with a goblin general?
What shall we do with a goblin general
Early in the mornin'?

(Chorus)
Weigh-hey, the magma rises,
Weigh-hey, the magma rises,
Weigh-hey, the magma rises,
Early in the morning!

Make him an arena to fight cave creatures,
Make him an arena to fight cave creatures,
Make him an arena to fight cave creatures,
Early in the mornin'!

Engineer the sewers in a maze-like fashion, (x3)

Toss him on top of an upright spear, (x3)

Use him to kill the caravan guards, (x3)

Launch him at a wall with a raising drawbridge, (x3)

Do you have a dungeon? Build a dungeon, (x3)

Put him in a cage in the dining room, (x3)

Early in the mornin'!
   

# Milling (of all sorts. Rocknuts, flour, dye)
workflow amount POWDER_MISC 10000 1000

This causes infinite sand-gathering. Where can I find these tokens? They're infuriatingly not in the wiki. POWDER_MISC/PLANT and POWDER_MISC//GRASS_WHEAT_CAVE don't work, as I get "no jobs".