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Quick question, if anybody knows this it'll save me a lot of testing ; I wanted to change the pick to AXE skill to keep miners from being legendary soldiers, and to restrict dorfs to using civilian picks and axes to mine and chop wood. When deciding if a weapon can mine/chop does the game check for PICK or AXE in the name like I vaguely remember it does, or does it check the skill associated for MINING or AXEMAN?

And if it's the naming string check, does anyone know if it checks for AXE or AX, so that I could presumably have "Battle Ax" and "Great Ax" instead of having to use cultural battle-axe names like Dolabra and Valashka and so on?

The ideas I like, and some of my own...

- Healing mist ; should gradually heal irreparable nerve damage but not regrow missing parts
- Purifying rain ; cleanses all bloodstains, vomit, pus, freshens stagnant water etc.
- General laziness, longer breaks, more sleep
- Gradual shift of attributes to be more compassionate, empathetic, etc. Nobody can "Doesn't care about anything anymore"
- Goblin and kobold thieves change their mind and go home before reaching your fortress
- Goblin siegers are perma-stunned and regularly vomit at all the disgusting goodness.
- All warring civs more likely to send a peace offer
- Killing unicorns doesn't provoke a war, but rather the eventual suicide of all dwarfs involved
- No vampires, werewolves or necromancers dare approach
- Clowns spontaneously die on exposure to the surface

Instead of communal dorms, how about building all your apartments under what will be your high-traffic areas, and having a floor grate above each bed so the dorfs can police each other? Alternatively, dig a series of corridors above your housing and have your guardsmen patrol it regularly, so the invasion of privacy isn't so massive.

So I am getting frustrated again...
Trying to equip my Military with Bronze armour.
I open Equipment page, Assign new Uniform, create a Uniform Template which is Mail, Breast, Gauntlet, High Boot, Greaves and the Choice of Weapon. Make sure that this Uniform is set.......
AND THEY DON'T TOUCH IT! I even set it to all of it being Bronze. Which is was. And nothing. They wouldn't go and wear it. So I tell them to replace. Nope, they just dump their Civie clothes there and now thats cluttering up the Barracks. How do I get them to put the shit back on?

Change "Partial Matches" to "Full Matches". With Partial Matches they'll settle for any mail, but with full matches they'll require Bronze mail. Give them a station command to trigger their upgrading.

So, my current fortress is going to be made entirely out of cast obsidian. I've dug out an area about 60x60 by 20z levels, and I've built a wall "mould" 10z levels up on the surface, so my cast-obsidian area will be 10z tall aboveground and 20z deep belowground. In the belowground area I've built a single support on each Z-level, with the top and bottom ones hooked to a lever, and I've channeled out the floor around each edge, using grates for worker access to collect all the ore before I collapse the rest of the floors and start casting.

However, it suddenly occurs to me that when I collapse the supports to make a massive open pit, my entire fortress area will be designated Outside/Light/Aboveground, and stay that way forever. Is there any way to reverse this using 3rd party utilities? Otherwise, what are my options for protecting against it? I could build a roof over the pit before I collapse the floors, but if I make it out of constructed floors and don't designate it row-by-row, are the stupid Dwarves likely to build on diagonals and cause cave-ins? If I build the roof partially out of bridges, will those bridges block the pit from becoming Light/Aboveground?

edit ; my testing has shown that Light/Aboveground will spread downwards even when roofed, so roofing my aboveground mould is not an option. I'm going to have to delay collapsing the surface floor until after I've cast all the subterranian levels save the shallowest with a premature tap running from my pumpstacks, which means my first underground level will have to be Light/Aboveground. That's acceptable, but I've unfortunately already channeled out the edges of the surface level, meaning my underground fortress will be ringed with Light/Aboveground, and anyone leaving the fortress by an underground exit (like into the caverns or mining tunnels) will get a booster shot against Cave Adaptation in a glitchy and unsatisfying way.

So, is there any sort of hack out there that will recalculate which areas of the map are Aboveground and which are Subterranian?

I think the human's major strength is the fact that when war is declared they haven't already burned their entire civilization to death in magma while trying to make a giant glass volcano-home shaped like a penis because some idiot of a fortress overseer decided it would look neat.

Hippos should absolutely have prone_to_rage. The male caste of elephant also deserves it, as do male and female polar bears. And it would be nice if there was some way of making bears prone_to_rage in spring only.