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To Whom It May Concern,

It has come to my attention that not only are you leaving buckets by the side of ponds, but you are also complaining that the buckets are being lost or destroyed.  I assure you, they are still intact and findable.

More problematically, I have noticed that you are taking it upon yourselves to dump all wool, skin, and hair.  It has gotten so bad that I have started habitually going through the dump when the spinners and leather workers complain that they are unable to do their jobs.  Please stop doing this, or I will find the person responsible and make them sleep outside.  Thank you.

By my hand,

HMD

To Overseer HMD,

'T'ain't our fault for followin' standing orders, now, is it?  Maybe we should review those and see if them ink smudges were a'purpose or not.

Yrs,
Dabbling Hauler

(Check your (o)rders > (r)efuse menu and be sure that wool and skin are set to "save".)

I've heard of this bug before. Has to do with how squads sent on missions return and reintegrate into fortress life - the dwarves are just treated like new migrants, but any warbeasts or mercenaries with them re-petition for residency.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168292.msg7624944#msg7624944
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168292.msg7625015#msg7625015

As far as I know, this happens when you have no leader they can meet with. Usually because said leader has gone mad or died.

The issue is mostly the sheer amount of information the game has to offer, I think. Perhaps a search filter on the stocks screen would help, along with a toggle to only count available items (not in a building, forbidden, or belonging to a visitor)? That shouldn't be too crazy, given that the game already knows to color code them and can search for particular units/materials/creatures in other menus.

As for how I personally stay on top of things, I don't worry so much about exactly how many I have as much as "do I have enough?" I use the job manager to produce a set amount of brand new clothes of each type every month, and then occasionally check dwarves to see if they're mad about worn clothing. If they are, I look at how we're falling short and increase workers, slated jobs, or raw material production. Things like furniture and mechanisms are easy to check by trying to place one, and tend to be required in bursts as I expand rather than constantly draining.

You could also use stockpile settings to finely sort items. This pile has ONLY socks that are considered wearable, this one has robes, etc. Ones that are worn out hang out on the bedroom floors or in the refuse stockpile, so they shouldn't interfere with "eyeballing" your stockpile. Obviously works better in more mature forts, since it takes a lot of real estate.

Sew your group images on a cloak and put it in a display case, perhaps?

Another possibility for the burrow causing mass water hauls is that the bedroom area was not included. Dwarves going to sleep just dropped where they were, and if they were thirsty, it treats them as injured.

Dear Urists,

Please stop suplexing goblins from the top of the pasture walls. My militia is not properly prepared to take on a siege of that size, but we have sealed our fort so we can continue operations as normal. If you leave this protected zone, there is nothing we can do except sigh as you are torn apart by beak dogs and lashers.

Sincerely,
Overseer (Dabbling Architect)

Also re: rotting corpses - you have an accessible corpse (y) stockpile in addition to the refuse (r) stockpile, yes? Sapient creatures and pets don't count as normal refuse.

Caste names must be unique, but you can have multiple [FEMALE] tokens, as said. I created a critter based off a book, something like a small dragon that comes in specific colors linked to sex. Two of them were female, both capable of producing egg clutches, but the "queens" consistently produced bigger and healthier clutches. Sadly, there was no way to limit which castes were valid offspring, but I was able to manage giving the "lesser" female a very small clutch size and the "queen" a larger one.

This was several versions ago, but I don't think that much has changed in the token level. I'm doing it again from scratch, so if I have success (or not), I'll share code bits.

Ants and bees in-game only have the [FEMALE] token on the queen caste; workers are genderless.

(Also, this is probably better suited to the modding forum. Just sayin.)