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Might want to type in "prospect all". That will tell you what you need to know.

If they have a good dining room, living quarters, and are able to eat/drink what they like, everything should work itself out. If not, brace for tantrum spiral.

The minotaur didn't kill his fort, the bugs in equipping your military did. It's kind of hard to call that fun, or "Fun". You can't exactly tell him "suck it up, learn to play, losing is fun" when he was killed by a bug.

Yep.

I think once you hit the caves, your in "deep metal" territory. I know that many of my embarks have had the tetrahedrite/galena upper layer, and once I would hit the first or second cave I would find something else (more than likely tetrahedrite/galena with gold or tin, MAYBE nickle). And don't worry about the elves. While the caravans are far from perfect, they often bring a fair amount of wood. And lets just say the elves combat prowess is...lacking. They use wooden gear, you should have some metal assuming you were using all that charcoal from cutting those trees. Metal beats wood any day of the week.

Whip's don't ignore armor, they just go straight through it like a bullet through paper. 

Oh, I agree with that 100%, and it IS an exploit/unintended feature no mater how you look at it. But I still defer to the point of other than possibly using it to flood the world with a liquid of your choice (which as I said, is fun the first time, but afterwards...), its not a very useful exploit. By all means, when we get dwarven Tesla coils, I think we should tackle this problem immediately, but until then...I mean, who cares if player #60224 uses an exploit to rig up a water fall in his meeting area. It effects no one but him. Its not like we pump up so much magma it runs off his map and spills over into yours. I'd instead start looking at that squad of hammerdwarves over there who have been beating on that goblin for the better part of a year and has YET to kill him. Or the marksdwarves who want to join the hammerdwarves in bashing the bloody pulp of a goblin with their crossbows instead of shooting it and putting it out of its misery.

I mean say you fix this, then what? Players will still pump up magma for whatever nefarious purpose, except they'll have to get slightly more creative with their power generation, and if this community lacks anything, it is NOT creativity.

I don't think it would take long to code for this. You'd simply have to turn the energy requirements for pumps up and lower energy generation of water wheels. That's what....2 numbers? 3 if you make windmills useful. But I'm with profit when he says that there's not much use for power at the moment. Its used for pumps and....millstones. That's all. And I, for some reason, doubt that people are setting up reactors to power millstones so that leaves the pumps. Which are probably (like profit said!) pumping magma up for forges or flooding the world, and the novelty of the latter gets old pretty fast. I think...I think we need more things for power to, well...power.