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Here's some industrial stuff. It's an aboveground fort built entirely out of glass or copper (goblinite) so it is REALLY important for me to have a super efficient glassworking and metal industry or I just spend forever waiting for materials.

Hang on. You're trying to build stairs down to the ground, in an area where you have ice walls but a non-ice floor? This sounds an awful lot like something I've noticed on my many glacier embarks: I can dig stairs down through ice just fine, but when I get to the LAST layer of ice before hitting rock (i.e. I have a rock floor and ice walls), the dwarves just leave a hole instead of digging stairs and all subsequent attempts to build stairs in that area, no matter what material I select and where it is, give me "cancels blah blah; cannot find path". I've always had to use ramps to get down through ice because of this. Once you are down there though it's no problem. Try digging a second access down using ramps, dig into your stairwell, build the stairs, then wall it up again. Did that make any sense?

Have you taken the floor covering your original staircase off yet? If not, just remove it and that should solve the problem. The command to remove a construction is d-n (d to open designations menu, n to select remove, and then put the cursor over the floor and hit enter).

I'm not sure why your other staircases didn't work, unless you were trying to dig up under a built floor without removing the floor first.

To all dwarves of Bellrings:

CLAIMING OF GOBLIN JUNK IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. NO. STOP CLAIMING IT. Especially you Atis Kengcatten, Weaponsmith, I have finally located the xxalpaca wool cloakxx you're spamming "cancels store owned item; item inaccessible" about, and it's on fire. You don't want it. No, seriously. Trust me. You don't want it.

Those of you complaining about nakedness, which is most of you, will be allocated uniforms AS AND WHEN WE GET ROUND TO IT. And I don't want to hear ANY more complaints about leather armor and chafing. You're dwarves. Get used to it.

Wood burning skill, under farming - not furnace operating

You could just type one out

Sweet pic btw!

"This is a saguaro rib harp. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of saguaro rib wood. This object menaces with spikes of saguaro rib wood." Yeah yeah I know but it was the first artifact in this fort. It's called "The Celebrated Scale", which I think is awesome, especially since the guy who made it was a founder and already had a musical-themed name as a friend's request. I've had awful luck with artifacts otherwise, I've had two adamantine warhammer possessions (neither of them even liked hammers!) and a reindeer bone battleaxe.

I did get a nice adamantine mail shirt though. Weakencleaned. "Encircled with bands of towercap, sheep leather and pigtail fiber, adorned with hanging rings of goliath tarantula silk (mod) and menaces with spikes of alpaca wool. On the item is an image of mountains in adamantine, dwarves traveling in bismuthininte and a cloud in rose quartz." So it's kind of a little sunset scene with blue mountains, pink clouds and dwarves traveling underneath.