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another fun reaction idea for you - grind diamonds to a powder, then forge with a steel bar for diamond steel. It should be harder than steel, a little lighter, and hold an edge better. Reactions that combine more than one ingredient are more fun, i think.

How about ice bolts for the crossbows?

How do I delete saved embark orders?

Dwarf\data\init\embark_profiles.txt

Edit this file. It's also something you can back-up if you reinstall. Actually everything under "init" is user settings, so back up the whole init folder.

Here's Leviticus on the matter of Hebrew slave customs (via wiki)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_antiquity

Leviticus draws a distinction between Hebrew debt slavery:
[...passages excerpted...]

and "bondslaves", foreigners:

25:44 As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you, you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.
25:45 Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.
25:46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

So to say it was only debt-slaves contradicts the bible (emphasis mine).

Catastrophe!
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How should I have done this? Should I have just "channeled" without digging the room out first?  I did a 1 tile experiment to confirm that it would work and didn't have a problem.... obviously this was insufficient.

Yeah you got it right, dig half a room normally, and channel the other half to create a combined farm.

If retrofitting above a dug out room, only channel single tile strips at a time, then nothing ever "breaks off"

Posting here to track this thread, I'd like to see how you go with haxe

btw, i'm pretty good with OpenGL, c++, done a bit of actionscript too

Well now you know how to combine above ground and below ground farms into a single complex

If I were you i'd square off the bit that has holes in the roof, and put both types of farm side-by-side. (be careful and channel the rest in strips to avoid cave-ins). Deconstruct the belowground farm(s) and rebuild in an area that's never been "aboveground". Put an aboveground farm in the old spot.

Myself, I dig half the farm as normal, for belowground crops, and channel the ceiling of the other half, without digging under it first - this avoids cave-ins. Then, I roof over the "aboveground" farm for safety.

Think positive, and you've just learnt two things - why you stuffed up, and how to totally exploit that feature in current and future forts.

I never said "free sand" i said adding glassmaking industry is basically free once you're put in magma forges anyway. This is something i do in every single fortress, so glassmaking in no way is a "cost".

Anyway the "exploit" I think you're referring to is a deliberately programmed feature. Muddy rock tiles become soil once a plant is removed, I've heard this is true for trees and grazed grass. This is something Toady has deliberately programmed in.

The real exploit is not that tiles become sand, it's that sand tiles are never depleted.

The tissues don't get properly "processed" with the right computer-ish tokens unless they are actually "butchered" at the workshop. Really annoying but not much you can do. It works different for wild animals (e.g. the auto-butchery design which drops breeding wild animals down a pit)