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WWUD if his entire embark had no metals whatsoever?

Are fat dwarves bigger? It may then turn out that Fatty McLard can wield a two-handed sword or something due to extra mass, average dwarf size is 60000 and the 2HS needs a size of 62500.

If you make everything out of platinum they'll still stay fat.
It's just genetics, you got more fat dwarves who have useless jobs. So they idle. The more they idle the more they become friends with people. Then they'll eventually get in a romance and you get a baby dwarf. That baby dwarf grows up to become a fat dwarf, spreading it's fatness to other dwarves.
Luck also plays a part in it.

That's not how real life genetics work...traits that are aquired during a lifetime aren't inherited to children, otherwise lets say the child of a one-armed war veteran would also be born one-armed.
However, you may already know that and you are commenting on our dwarven genetics, which may or may not work this way...any !!science!! done on this?

Well, I'm a perfectionist and I want to add every possible thing existing added to a civilization so that if that dorf likes blood thorn wood, nickel and faint yellow diamonds I'm able to get him exactly that.

Basically, something like this: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=77800.0 except that I want this for every stone, gem, clay, wood, plant, animal usw. It'll involve a lot of copypasta I think, which I intend to do myself yet I need some help setting this up.
Basically, I plan doing a reaction like in the above thread but which gives me the basic product of every category. So I'll need to know how I make a reaction to add basic stone, ore, gems (as if freshly mined), basic wood (freshly felled), clay, sand (how can I get those?) and everything else that I missed.

Likewise, I want the civ to have access to every single plant and animal, similarly to our dorfs always having access to plump helmets and cats. Can you help me there? Access to everything might invalidate the need for the wood reactions...

If someone wants the end result, I'll add it when I'm done so you can enjoy your caravans being able to bring native aluminium despite your world having minimal mineral density.

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obligatory wiki link: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Textile_industry

short: you need either below ground pig tails or above ground rope reed. then a farmers workshop where you process the stuff into threads. labor is threshing. then it goes to the loom, weaving labor. finally the cloth goes into a clothiers shop, clothsmaking labor. you can dye your stuff with for example below ground dimple cups if exporting is your goal, this increases value. need a quern to make the dye, then a dyers shop to actually dye. miller and dyer are the labors.

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I vote chessboard. White are Dwarves, Black are Elves. Position:

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Number4 was very unhappy lately. He was accosted by a terrible elf recently. He was irritated by the sun recently. He complained of hunger lately.