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Well, to be fair, unless you have telepathic dwarves, there shouldn't be a way of knowing what is there until you dig for it. I think it gives more information than it should, so im grateful for that it gives.

Okay, so, after rereading, I think I understand. You want to know whats in the rock before you dig there, right? The mining industry doesn't exactly work like that, as they mine a little to find out whats there, then start a big mine to get out what they find[Alaskan Gold Rush, ftw]. It's possible for a mining company to set up a site and find nothing[or very little.].

Half the fun in the game is using what you're given and making the best of it. Aquifer? Punch through it like an angry god. No metal ore? Stone crafts and trade for it. No stone? Woodland dwarves. Though, a world gen option was added to increase the frequency of metal if you don't want to work with the default, but that takes a little of the fun away.

And if you don't want realism, Minecraft is that way. =====>

Well, I have a posse of like 10 guys with me, all soldiers [What can I say, when I was used to bandits and it went ''Go take on a titan'', I got nervous.] and they seem pretty adept at murdering everything. Infact, I've only last hit a titan and the Roc. They stole the rest of my kills. Glorywhores.

Is there a way to kill them off without doing it myself? Using stong, legendary beasts is apparently not going to work.

German Shepherds.

Hm. Well that sucks.

The red [C] means combat.

The teal [ S ] means sparring.

The green [H] means hunting.

They're different reports. A letter in the corner means a report you haven't read has happened, such as new combat, sparring, etc. To view the reports, hit 'r', and it'll bring up the list of them.

So, I loaded up my work to start playing again, and when I got on, three of my dwarves immediately became recruits. One being my second miner. I found this odd, because I have no squads, no military to speak of, no milita commander... yet I now have three soldiers. One my miner. Which annoys me. What should I do to fix this?

Nevermind, I had to force them into a squad twice before it randomly went away.

I'm not sure if that just because actual sparring is relatively uncommon (most 'training' seems to be demos or individual), or if the training combat was truly improved to reflect non-lethal intent, but either way there is little need to worry about sparring injuries for now.

Sparring doens't injure. Only 2 dwarves at a time [in a squad] will spar, but they 'lightly tap the target' instead of wailing on them. I keep, in the begining, squads down to 2-3 dwarves, so I cna have several sparring matches going at once.