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I'm installing a LOT of flooding chambers bathrooms, but won't this generate a lot of mud?  I'd prefer to have some spick and spam clean rooms, which is one reason for the flooding, but if it causes mud everywhere then I may have to use more !!creative!! plumbing.

Can these be found amongst the raws and tampered with?  Can I encrust Weapon X with Gem Y and reduce its weight by .95x?  For that matter, the location of the workshops and other buildings doesn't seem to be immediately visible in the raws.

I get no ambushes for about two years or so, which is strange for me since I've had one every season since the spring of year 2.  My caravan from the mountainhomes arrived.  Expecting complications, and being standard now, while the game was still paused from the announcement I ordered my military to move to the caravan's spawn point, then go to set trade goods up.

It's ~7 seconds (at 30 fps that's around 210 steps) before the first ambush wave appears about 5 tiles away from the caravan, and the goblins instantly kill one trader and mule, before the caravan guards can react.  One guard goes down, and the rest of the caravan turns around and leaves.  Another trader is killed by a squad of lashers, and my soldiers get there just in time to watch the final caravan guard leave.

This means no platinum or diamond import this year...

In damming up my river (which I finally succeeded in installing floodgates!) I ended up with a LOT of blood, everywhere.  My people seem to bathe in the stuff, getting covered in blood during every ambush, every gladiator batch, ever butchery of kittens, and apparently out of thin air!  When I pumped water out of the river and let it spread across my land (no more farming issues!) the blood was washed off and onto the ground... where it then proceeded to move.  The bloodstains moved with the water, but they moved against the current, towards the outspout of my pump setup!  It sort of squirms and flocks until hitting a tree, at which point it attaches to the tree because trees are like nature's walls.  I have a dozen trees that are now absolutely drenched in the blood of a dozen different ambushes and possibly hundreds of butchered animals.

I've been thinking about the various breeding programs and modding capacities, and it's brought to me a question.  What part of the raws defines child stats, like the frequency of breeding, the number of children per pregnancy, and the maturation age of the children into adults (or infants into children into adults)?

Ok, I wanna do a water project.  Primarily, I want to set up an area for my soldiers to grind on screw pumps, but there's a bit of a river in the way.  I attempted to drop walls by causing a cave-in, but they deconstructed, so no luck there.  The current plan is to set up pumps (likely waterwheel powered) upriver and attempt to push back the water faster than it approaches so that I can achieve the Moses Affect.

Is there a simpler way to do this?

I know that framerate is the be-all-end-all of a working fort, and I thought I was safe from having it crash on me since I'm running a fairly modern computer.  It's not liquid cooled but it's a few magnitudes more powerful than the common laptop.  During my current fort though, which I'm so proud about because it's actually survived, my FPS has started jittering.  I get ~35 FPS normally, which is fine for me since I can leave my dorfs to run about without too much oversight, but then it started to take breaks on me.  My FPS will run regular for a while, and then stop entirely for about a second or two, then perform about 30 steps before it freezes again.  It's a rough freeze too, because the window will include (Not Responding) at the top and the graphics freeze, like that little graphic for when two items are atop each other and they flash one object then another?  That will stop as well.

I'm on a 5x5 embark, with a river on one side, and 60 dwarves, very few animals and most of them chained or caged.  GFPS is always identical to the FPS, I don't have any running water aside from the river.  I ran some water to fill me well reservoir, but the floodgates have closed since then.  This is un-modified, except that I made monkeys into [PET] after the issues started.

Am I doing something wrong, does this happen at random times on random forts, or is the coding a little sloppy for some things?  Oh also, I haven't broken into any of the cavern layers yet.