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Are these early caravans, that only have pack animals, or late caravans that also have wagons?

My caravans also do that, but I didn't have many wagons yet.

What's your preference? Is there a third, better option I'm not seeing?

Yes, you check if you have 100 pig tail threads available, and queue 100 cloth tasks.

Either a lot more samples are needed, like 500 or even 1000, or a different methodology that gives more samples to work with than simply win/loss.

Maybe some modded raws that will only allow one attack type, or enemies that will only have specific body parts/organs. That way there will be fewer shenanigans like bleeding out or being unconscious, or attacking with the pommel or biting.

Shouldn't the warhammer/mace/whip be made of silver instead of steel to get their best damage or am i remembering wrong ?

edit : oh missed that part

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Steel mace vs silver mace, using the above parameters. Steel mace won 59:41
Steel warhammer vs silver, ditto. It won with the exact same ratio of 59:41.

That's surprising though, as silver has a higher density than steel if i look at the values on the wiki, and up to know i was reading that higher density is always better in term of blunt impact ?
Has this changed in 50.x in comparison to past versions ?

It hasn't changed, it's that many things you read about being "better" are somewhat exaggerated.

That was the expected result, but it is not a waste. You never know what might be actually happening here until you do some !science!.

What if you run the tests twice, reversing the teams, and averaging the results?

I noticed that sometimes my dwarves "recover wounded" that are not wounded, like with bees. Then they get happy thoughts about bringing them to bed.

Maybe a dwarf passes out from drinking after spilling a drink, and gets recovered by some helpful recoverer.

I have confirmed that this is indeed happening at the same time, as in the dwarf that spills the drink is also being recovered. I'm not sure which happens first.

Another beginner question, if I may. My fortress is now in its 3rd year and is getting dangerously out of hand. Biggest problem: it's flooded with babies and children (38 out of 85 total citizens!). I'm trying to limit the baby boom through the settings page now, but I wonder if there might also be a rational reason for this kind of excessive fertility. My current working theory is that I've left too many dwarfs unemployed for too long. Is that a possible reason or am I just making things up?

On that occasion, I would also like to know if it is normal or an extreme exception for a 3 year old child to successfully build an artefact after a strange mood and now be a legendary woodcrafter? Which will most probably amount to a tragic waste, as I hardly trust myself to keep this fortress up long enough for this child to finally become an adult.

There does seem to be an unusually high amount of children coming in migrant waves. I'm not sure if the child cap settings even work.

Children making artifacts is normal. Now that we have guilds, it's possible to get them a moodable skill in something useful like weaponsmithing, instead of random crafting, which might also get you a useful weapon at the very least.