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And I'm a bit doubtful as to the ability to locate aluminum at all (aside from bauxite, of course).

It's only the third most abundant element in the Earth's Crust, after Oxygen and Silicon.  Should be real difficult to find.  Pure Aluminum is rare, but Aluminum Oxides are so abundant as to be the basis of most of the mineral's known to man.

Seriously look it up.

Despite Bauxite being unsmeltable with Dwarven High Tech, I still feel rather odd about the very idea of eliminating an element that makes up 70-80% of every known terrestrial planet's crust.  It's THAT common.

Is it just me, or has this stopped being a conversation and turned into a pissing match?

Honestly, so far as I'm understanding the argument here, it could all be solved by making the minerals less common, and making sure Native Platinum only ever occured in SMALL_CLUSTER formations.  Because these minerals do occur in their raw forms in nature, and DF only has the ability so simulate either ores or the real-deal.

But sure, make a federal case about it and get mad at each other.  Please.  Really brings us together as people and makes Toady want to accede to our requests when we get angry.

Nah, just edit it to say "wrong post" if it bothers you.  You're fine Baal.

I like the counterbalance idea the more I think about it.  I wonder if the predator-prey relationship is modeled for anything else in the game during worldgen, even in a roundabout way.  It would be nic eif those 3000-some-odd wolves that exist in a Forest that the game knows about had to find food amongst the 10,000-some-odd prey animals that are all kept track of already.  I don't think they are, or at least it's not enforced.  Not when you look at the Legends mode output and see that there are way more animals of a predatory nature than anything else... presumably because they're harder to kill.

It would be a really nice feature for all those beasts, were and otherwise, to need some kind of food source or suffer famine and death.  Hunters killing them off is one thing, but that already happens to a degree and doesn't really help the situation when there are so many weres that they're eating village after village.  It doesn't happen too often like that, but sometimes it can (and should happen more often, so long as the weres then have depleted their food source and then must either move away or die)

Urist McPlantgatherer cancels Gather Pumpkin: What Pumpkin?

On Windows:

Get CFFExplorer.
Open Dwarf Fortress.exe
Select NT Headers -> File Header from the list on the left
Click "Click Here" next to Characteristics
Check "App Can Handle >2GB Address Space"
Save and quit

Dwarf Fortress is now able to address >2GB of Ram.

16x16 will still be slow, but if you have over 2 Gigs of RAM, it won't crash because of memory problems.

Except none of that exists in the game.  No natural gas or coal dust pockets.  Torches would work deep underground, so long as they still had oxygen to burn the pressure can't be "too high"... but there are no air pressure levels or winds or anoxic environments in Dwarf Fortress.

This is all really good stuff guys, but it's putting the cart before the horse.  Without any concept of light levels in the game, or light sources, or particulate matter that might either explode or block light... what does that leave us with?

An open flame, a new species of mushroom, and beautiful crystals.  All of which don't actually do anything.

In order for this to be a good suggestion, there would need to be some concept of light areas vs dark areas.

Don't get me wrong, that is I believe planned, but this suggestion is really part of a larger need for light levels.

I will give some points for Dwarfiness, but Open Flame Torches and Sconces might work just as well.