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Dwarves: Taking revenge against rivers by sealing them up at the source for no reason but spite and vengence, likely killing any nearby towns in the process.

With magma.

Actually what would be neat would be if someone else embarked a fort further down the river and found the riverbed dry.  But I doubt that would happen.

Check this, OP.

Hell is being reincarnated as a goblin, about to march off to war. Because you never see those traps coming.

Or as an elf, for obvious reasons.

What is the best way to go about safe fishing when the local river is full of carp and aligators?

Have you considered keeping livestock instead?

I think undead should HAVE to have their brains mashed to die.

For example, you sever the head but the body still lives. You must destroy the brain to kill the zombie. Also, if you chop off a zombies arm, that should become a creature and try to attack you.

The disembodied arm grabs you by the arm!

The disembodied arm can exert no force over your arm without a body to provide leverage...

The disembodied arm holds on anyway, because to hell with who you thought you were and what you think to know. He's here to stay.

I think undead should die only on decapitation or bisecting (The lower body sails off in an arc!). But my opinions tend to be unpopular when it comes to the undead.

Try making and then constructing an animal trap, see if you can assign it to that. Then put it up for adoption.

It would be nice if the Dwarves would pick up particularly nice pieces and claim them, then actually wear them if they were jewlery or earings.

And have them claim all the masterwork bone earrings that you were planning to use to buy dogs and booze? (This is seriously all I buy on some years. Dogs and booze. "What do you want next year?" "Eh, bring more dogs and booze." "...nothing else?" "Nope, we need mostly dogs and booze." "...are you having drunken dogfights in this fortress?" "Only when we've got nothing better to do, really.") I'm not against the idea in its entirety, but I think you need to account for the fact that dwarves picking out fancy earrings and such to wear would kind of put a great big dent in the available crafts you have for pawning off.

If we take into account the idea of the economy getting revived (I shudder to think of it...I started playing a good long while after Toady decided "Whoops, economy's fucked, let's put it on the backburner" and I've have to learn all things associated with it), then maybe there could be some new noble (or perhaps a few new duties for an existing one, the broker or the mayor of the tax collector perhaps) to regulate the claiming of items and crafts. For example, Urist McMiner's shirt is getting a bit ratty, so he wants to buy a new one. He goes to Urist McSomenoble and asks, "Can I buy that snazzy cave spider silk shirt that's in the stockpiles? The wind here's awful chilly on my nipples when I'm wearing this thing." Urist McSomenoble, after getting the image of Urist McMiner's nipples sticking out like little rosy jellybeans out of his mind, says "I'll get back to you on that" and puts up a chit for the "overseer" (you!). It'd go something like "Urist McMiner is suffering jellybeaning of the nipples and wants to buy that snazzy silk shirt in the stockpile". Then you could decide whether he can buy it ("Get those nipples outta sight!"), or not ("These gifts from Goblin Claus pay for your drunken dogfights, Urist. You can just keep wearing the one you have for a bit."). Perhaps depending on Urist McMiner's personality, he'd either sigh and go back to work, or say "Well, what about that less snazzy rope reed fiber one?". If that one is also denied him, this might give him a bad thought ("He was denied the aquistition of new clothing lately"), again based on his personality.

This would serve a few purposes. First of all, your dwarves wouldn't go just grabbing the first shirt they see when theirs get ratty, possibly denying you the sale of a particularly valuable item (one of the kids in my fort once claimed a GCS silk robe that was somewhere between 200-300 urists worth. I nearly ate my beard out of frustration). To make sure your dwarves do get clothed, you'd have to either bestow some of the less expensive clothes that Goblin Claus left in the chainsaw traps on them ("Cave fish leather cloak? Sure, buddy, go ahead..."), which would free up space, or make your own, which would stimulate the economy (but what about the communism? ;_;). Your dwarves get clothes, you sling the really expensive ones off on the caravans (for booze and dogs!), so everybody's happy!

Then there's nobles.

Nobles, of course, need clothes too. And it wouldn't do for the mayor, the baron, the duke or let alone the KING to be wearing just a cave fish leather cloak and a rope reed fiber cowl, would it? Hell no. So of course, when His Highness Urist McKing spots that fancy yellow zircon-encrusted giant cave spider silk robe that one of those stupid goblins wore to war instead of a dinner party hanging off of a serrated steel disc, he'll be like "Hey. I'm the king, here. That shit's mine. Booze and dogs are all well and good, but I gotta look pimpin', damn it!" This may give players more incentive to fuck around with magma, if you know what I mean.

I do like the idea of dwarves starting fights over other people trying to touch their fancy stuff, though. Maybe there'd be dwarves with thieving streaks, so there'd be an actual use for justice and all that.