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I rarely actually get a military up and running.
Funny that. Just locking up the mountain halls and opening the back door for trade is usually enough. It certainly presents me with more of a challenge then actually having marksdwarves. at least, in some ways.

Someone new takes the stage. Shame. Dwarmin could at least have gone out humorously.

Dear Grytorm,

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!?


-Urist

Dear -Urist
The same thing as every other dwarf. We're a mad, maaaad race of xenophobic, nihilistic, selfish pricks. The better question is, what isn't wrong with you, to think that this was unacceptable?

- Urist mcCorpsehaulerthatfoundyourletter

Although, I think that I might be able to run rainwater through channels into a central cistern with floodgates.  I just need to figure out what floodgates are and how to use them.

Floodgates are buildings that specifically stop the flow of liquids (water and magma) from passing them as long as they're active. To use one, simply construct it out of the material you want in the relevant workshop (stone in a mason's, wood in a carpenter's...) then "b"uild it where you want it placed.
Once built, you'll need to hook it up to a lever, much like with a bridge.
Floodgates for magma need to be built out of magma safe materials, however, or they'll melt.

None whatsoever. Bring up the unit profile for the animal where you can read how fat it is and how long its hair is etc (z from the 'v'iew mode I think). The pronoun there will make it clear which gender it is.

This is correct. You can also check an animal's gender by going to the "z" menu, and selecting animals.
It lists all current fortress owned animals in a downward list. Going across from left to right, it lists name (if any. If not, it simply lists the animal as "stray"), species, gender, and then allows you to mark the animals as "available", "unavailable", or "for slaughter". Available and unavailable determine whether the animal can be made a pet.

Rain water is peculiar - when it's "raining", what's happening is random tiles are getting washed and 'murky pool' tiles spontaneously create water in them. 'Murky Pool' tiles are the only tiles that will do this, so do not destroy them (by digging or flooring over them) if you want rain water. Collecting it is a matter of arranging plumbing to connect to various murky pool tiles.

This is beyond useful to know. Glad I asked. Probably the easiest way will be to drain the pool by allowing it to flood into the cistern and then channeling out the ground near the tile before constructing a floodgate over the newly channeled hole.
Hmm.. That leads to the other question: Will the murky pool tiles still fill with water if they've been covered over with a roof? If it functions as normal ground does in regards to that (ie: if it's been exposed once, it counts forever) or does being covered prevent this?

The dwarf promptly walls himself in on the side that's about to be flooded by the aquifer because I neglected using the "suspended building designation" trick, thinking he couldn't build on the wrong side due to the water flow. GUESS NOT.

What is this "suspended building designation" trick?
I forsee this saving me quite alot of trouble.

That... wow. Dr. Adorable almost broke the meter.
Came so very close... Thank goodness for surge protectors.

Also: This thread is beyond hilarious. The most morally deficient, cruel, self serving, abomination-against-nature loving, sadistic gamers that ever carefully carved tunnels to avoid walking under the sun all discussing, in this thread, adorable ponies. If I weren't wallowing in it all, I'd probably be more than alittle surprised.