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I get horrendous slow-down when I have non-square stockpiles, or ones interrupted by lots of unmined pillars and suchlike.

I reached the point where I pretty much decided to hollow out the mountain, and started dropping stockpiles in the incomplete excavations, giving them really irregular shapes, and the game became almost unplayable as long as I had stone hauling turned on.  Replacing the stockpiles with unbroken square ones helped a lot.

Just make it so that if an item is in a workshop, it checks to make sure its not required for the topmost job in the workshop queue before it creates a 'store item' job.  Sure, this might lead to the odd instance where you have a few extra items left in the pile, but I'd rather than than the current idiocy of idle dwarves stealing all the raw materials out of the workshop the second the guy goes for a drink.

Update: with an animal population down to 87, I'm getting puppies again; still no kittens.  Maybe an animal (or dogs and cats in particular) can only get knocked up when the population is under 90 or 100 or whatever, and the excess over 100 was a result of lag from that?

I had a pretty good pack of wardogs at one point, but recently they've started dying of old age and they aren't breeding any more.  I don't have any assigned to people, and a fairly small portion of them chained to something.  I've had more dogs than this in the past, and I've had more dogs that continued to breed.  I've checked and there's a decent mix of male and female ones among the loose ones, and I haven't preferentially chained any one age group, but yet haven't seen a single birth in the past two years or so.

Without any sort of attack or ambush that I can see, I just got the message "The stray war dog (tame) has been struck down" three times in a row.  The corpses vanished, nowhere to be found.

I think what happened, and this is largely guesswork on my part, is that they died of old age while assigned to a rope, which for some reason mande them poof (I'm guessing this since a few others dropped from old age around the same time).

I dug out a channel, turned it into a pond, and filled it.  I then dug out the rest of a 3x3 block, and now when I look at the channel using the 'k' key, the original square (upper left) shows ten channels being there, one in dark blue and nine in aqua.  Below that, nine: one blue one and eight aqua.  Below that, seven; one in blue and six in aqua, and so on in this pattern (number of extra aqua channels shown):

943
852
761

It doesn't seem to affect my captive fish swimming around, but is a kind of odd display.

23 days for potentially causing a cave-in seems a little light, honestly.  Especially when it's the same as what you get for trashing a bed or a table.

Once problem I keep running into in my larger forts is what to do with the unholy mounds of crap that a goblin seige will leave behind.  It would be nice to specify that all of the goblin gear go in one pile, where I can melt it down later, and the stuff I actually want to keep somewhere else.