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So by now I've approved the immigration of way too many interlopers, and they've brought with them all their different religions.  And there are TONS of religions in my fortress now.  We're like New York City without the atheists.

But now that I'm setting up a temple infrastructure to service the religiously inclined, I'm trying to figure out how to make these people happy without having to build three dozen temples.  Is the generic, catchall temple good enough to service these needs?  Should I try to pick the top five or so observed religions, give them all temples, then hope the Episcopalians don't start complaining about lacking a place of worship?  How much happiness do the niche religion-observers receive from attended the Unitarian church anyway?

I've noticed with the latest release I seem to encounter a number of floor spaces opening up if I dig just below the top z-level.  I'm assuming this is a result of tree roots.  Either I've failed to notice all of the open spaces or they just keep opening up, and I have to keep flooring over them like a game of whack-a-hole.  Has anyone else noticed this?  Should I just go ahead and floor over everything above my top floor as a preemptive measure?

So my queen showed up, and she's a goblin.  No biggie, it happens.  The problem I've run into now is, I can't assign her any rooms.  In the unit screen she shows up as "tame," even though she's not listed with the pets or animals. 

Am I just hosed here?  Will she snap because nobody ever gave her a room?

Edit: Looks like I can assign her to an animal pen, and to a burrow.  That seems to be all I can do with her.

I'm not going to get into a lengthy review of the movie since I've got pretty mixed feelings about the whole affair, but it needs to be said: this is the Dwarfiest Fortressiest moviest movie I've ever seen.  The opener was 10 minutes of dwarfs building the mightiest richest dwarfiest fortress ever, only to have it ruined inexplicably by the catastrophic arrival of Smaug Silver Toes: The Waxing Gibbon of Desecration or whatever his megabeast equivalent name would be.

More importantly, they got the dwarfs entirely right.  The body proportions, the personalities, the drunkenness, the hatred of pussy elves, their fighting prowess; it was just damn cool watching a whole threefuckinghours of dwarfs being dwarfs.  I guess what I'm trying to say is I LOVE DWARFS.  If you love dwarfs, you'll probably enjoy this movie.  If you're easily bothered by the fact that they could've fit the whole story into one movie if Peter Jackson didn't insist on just making up 90 minutes of pointless crap that wasn't in the book, then go watch it anyway FOR THE DWARFS.

I don't really know what to make of this.  I just genned my first world under the new update, embarked on a river, only to discover it's really really wide.  I know this isn't particularly earth-shattering, but I've just never seen one quite like this...


Has anyone encountered a river this wide before?

EDIT:  Okay, I figured it out.  The militia captain had died, and nobody would pick up ammo until a new one was assigned.  Good enough.

Yes, I realize there are several topics on this subject.  I've looked over all that I came across, but this problem isn't getting fixed for me.

I've got a bunch of marksdwarfs patrolling across an ammo stockpile and onto fortifications, facing dozens of goblins.  Nobody fires, nobody picks up any ammo, nobody cares.  I know they're in range and CAN fire, because they had done so previously.  They've all got quivers, they're all able to use every type of bolt I have available, and hunters have had their ammo removed in the military screen, and their hunting labor disabled.

I tried forbidding all the ammo on the map for a few ticks, then unforbidding.  I've tried yelling at the dwarfs.  These things have not helped.

Any ideas?

Looking through the list of justice dispensed by my Hammerer, 'Brick Fingers' Monomotung, it occurred to me that the only use Hammerers get in well-managed forts is to put vampires down.

If that's how it's gonna be, someone should really mod in a preferred weapon for Hammerers - WOODEN STAKES.  While we're at it, we may as well mod Hammerers to be properly titled "Vampire Hunter."

Just a thought, anyway.

After putting down three vampires in my latest fortress, I'm left with a MASSSSSIIIIIVVVVVE stockpile of crafts made with human bones.  I mean, huuuuuge.  Come to think of it, the last few fortresses have had similar issues.

I had to quadruple my stockpile size and stop murdering elven caravans just to make room for everything.

Granted, none of these are useful outside of trading, but clearly vampires are a rich source of marketable commodities rather than just a nuisance!