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When dwarves become aware of fire, I believe putting fires out would be pretty high priority. I can even envision buckets of water at regular intervals, and perhaps the fortress guard, besides being a place to tuck useless cripples, would have the task of watching for fires and putting them out with those buckets.

"This is a cave painting of a stick figure and stick figures. The stick figure is brandishing a stick. The stick figures are running."

As stated above, these have all been suggested many times. That doesn't make them any less good though. I think they bear reiterating, there's always something new that pops up.

Being able to shape rooms to make the roof and walls bear loads better was discussed a lot in a cavein thread which spoke of algorithms and the like. It didn't take into account different strengths for different types of stone though, something which I think really ought to happen. There currently isn't any difference between siltstone and gneiss except the name, which only causes annoyance, really.

I've seen the bodies of my old adventurers impaled on spikes outside goblin fortresses. I want their skinny green asses on gibbets outside every human town from here to Armok.  

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Originally posted by Faces of Mu:
<STRONG>I, too, would also like to see mechanisms that can be attached to normal furniture that can act like levers (like statues, chairs, chests, doors, chains, etc); things that are either activated when used or have a hidden switch or lever attached to them or inside them somewhere, like the chair in Indianna Jones, or the classic book in the bookshelf.
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We need that! I so desperately want special chairs for the nobles that have a trapdoor under them that open to a sixteen level drop into an oubilette. After a while the bone piles would add up so that the nobles would survive the fall, and be left with the horrible realisation that their predecessors have been systematically murdered over several generations, and that they're stuck in there...

As long as the always-on traps are visible, as in the case of whirling blades of death, I doubt anyone would willingly blunder down that corridor.

Then again, these are the same people who go after infuriated elephants with the butts of their crossbows, so perhaps I shouldn't count on their instinct for self preservation...   :p

Well, monkeys set up camp sometimes. You can tell by the strangely well fertilised areas around some trees... As for thieves raiding your fortress, I think they ought to set up camp nearby too, but before, not after. After all, you're not going to sneak into the fortress while carrying all your food, drink, blanket, tent, bandages, and myriad other things you need for trekking through the countryside but which is mostly going to be in the way when you stalk through underground passages. Similarly you're not going to carry whatever lockpicking and other burglary gear you need for the job openly on your way there.

What you need is a basecamp from where you can observe the fortress, prepare yourself, and stage the attack from.

You may also want a cache for the stolen goods and burglary gear as well. If you're found afterwards you'll have a much better chance of worming out of it if they don't find you with the stolen artifact on you.

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Originally posted by Turgid Bolk:
<STRONG>Well, I usually see this after switching a dwarf to a different profession, or assigning immigrants. It really annoys me, too, and I hope it's handled differently in the new version.

Anyway, here's a toast to Mike Mayday and his lovely ☼engravings of dwarves and dwarves☼. And here's hoping we'll be able to use them soon.</STRONG>

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That's the same reason I see it. You have jewellers chopping wood, jewellers cutting stone, jewellers carrying things, jewellers working on the fields. Oh, and one or two jewellers actually cutting jewels.

By the way, shouldn't we name the "engraving" something like the hairy audacious brawn of flummery or something?