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Also, do simgle mothers come with a baby and then shack up with a male dwarf in the fortress, or is it safe to assume a migrant woman that came with a baby and living in a room with a male dwarf, that he's the father?  (This may be moot - DO women migrate with babies or just children?)

Trying to figure out some genealogy as my fortress has exploded with kids and I wanted to assign them huts next to thier families - or send them all on a treasure hunt in that damp, mud-soaked room...

I was preparing to build a well and had water channeled underground to a holding tank.  I channeled one tile out where the well would go.

Since I didn't have any chains yet, I just let the hole alone and designated it as a water collection zone.

I noticed the dwarves all drank from it when I ran out of booze.

So, why do I actually need a well?

Will the dwarven caravans use this tunnel instead of spawning on a random elevation?

Am I ahead of myself?

The river thawed before I realized it, and the water began to flow (the gate was open so it could fill my 3x3 resevoir just below the well).

When I noticed it, the well was overflowing.  No problem, I thought, I'll just close the floodgate.

It closes, but the water keeps coming out of the well.  A few of the lower levels the fort have already filled up and I don't see any stop in sight.

Seems that if a well overflows, it keeps producing water.

[ January 02, 2008: Message edited by: Dwarfu ]

They did arrive from the direction of high mountains - could the caged animals have died by freezing while crossing over?

Received a kitten birth message and promptly made my water resevoir a pit and designated the kitten to be tossed in.  I did this several times, but it kept climbing out.

I then changed the pit to be over an exposed magma channel and tossed it in there.  It just stood there - its still there now (I guess this is proof cats ARE some sort of demon...).

I threw in two other kittens (without having tossed them in water first) and they properly burned up.

The channel is used for tossing in poorly made furniture, and nothing has survived but that damned kitten.  Its just sitting in the channel looking all innocent.  I've even thrown some rock furniture on top of it to mash it down, but the furniture melts and the kitten stays.

Have save - I have all saves from start of fortress - will have to see if I can reproduce it in an earlier save.
Tempeture is on.
See this post as well.
He burned up upon save/restart DF.
Toady, let me know if the saves will even help.

[ April 06, 2008: Message edited by: Dwarfu ]

At the trade depot, it would be quite helpful to simply give the total value of all goods on both sides (not total marked, but total possible for trade on both sides) instead of having to mark the entire list to see this.