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Sometimes you gotta love it when your men don't finish a kill.  Leaving that goblin legless to crawl off the map one tile per day, is just so fitting...

I'm still waiting on custom moods before I abuse things like nekomimi maid cafe.  It's a workshop, with a custom reaction requiring one tigerwoman, that produces nothing but gives the thought "Urist has visited a brothel lately".

Every time the elf caravan comes along, I see that Tigerman in a cage, and say, "Ohshit a Tigerman, badass!" because a) I'm a dirty pervy furry, b) tigers are awesome, and c) I've always wanted a tigerman mayor, simply for lulz.  Then every time I say "Wait, my last seven tame tigermen have all died of thirst due to freezing water... or they fought one goblin thief, took a slash to the hand, and bled out like some type of furry elven baby." but then I buy it anyways and it dies.

So, anyone had luck with these guys?  Are they worth the effort?  They seem weaker in combat than an actual tiger, get uppity and thirsty, and waste my corpse stockpile.

Caravans automatically come to the depot, even if you completely ignore them, or even if the depot is located several hundred Z down in hell itself, requesting a trader is requesting your broker, or requesting anyone if you have it set for anyone.

Being able to make a slab for any intelligent creature or pet that's died, that list gets so long it's laughable.  A single ambush squad is ~7, at least for me, with 3 squads that's 21 dead goblins, which takes up two full pages of memorial listing.  Not to mention, if you use chained animal sentinels, those appear on the memorial list as " (engrave memorial)" with no name or classification, and race does not appear either, just names, so telling the difference between a dead goblin and a dead caravan guard can be nigh-impossible, especially with such outlandishly difficult names.

Memorials are good for new forts, or people with enough patience and a notepad, but an old fort that's seen bloodshed will suffer.  If I could turn off ghosts I'd be doing a lot more stuff with my dwarves.

There will likely never been a traditional tech tree, where something is impossible until you do a certain thing, but tech trees are already in place to an extent, like the entire production of steel, and plant-thread-yarn-dye-clothes, not to mention soap and various forms of glass.  Production lines will, and do, happen, but not really a tech tree.

When you deconstruct a coffin, the body pops out, but I don't believe this will happen when exposed to sunlight.  Beds are also indoor-only, but when exposed to light, they remain, albeit useless.  Dwarves will not sleep in an outdoor bed, and I assume the same is true of coffins.  If it's empty, and light, it will remain empty.

5+ Z's below the surface is usually stone layer.  For my forts it's always 5 soil levels/ice and then stone, but I do play tailored forts so it may be tailored to 5 for me.