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A small contribution to the overall problem, but I generally have a few "nurses" burrowed in the hospital and some ajoining suites, set to only give food/water and retrieve wounded. It doesn't seem like much, but when you have all 20 hospital beds filled you'll be glad you have a 5-1 ratio of wounded to designated caretaker rather than 20-1 of wounded to doctor who's already busy.

I have a hauler profession in therapist that's set to masonry and hauling. All masons workshops are set to have the minimum skill as adequate or higher, thus the haulers are my labor force for building. I swear the goblins camped on the outskirts of the fortress have, on many occasions, awoken to find that the fortress had grown a new sniper tower, skyscraper, or had simply crept out toward them with a new color wall.

Another activity is having them make their own picks then using them for carving out a well defended path down to the caverns. I always have different checkpoints for each cavern carved many tiles wide and 2 z-levels high so that I can build fortifications for marksdwarves up top. I take my Forgotten Beasts seriously. Points if you carve a single, precarious bridge over a wide open area and have a fire-based FB and a necromancer duke it out on it. Of course the only logical ending is for the bridge to crumble and both of them to fall.

Pumps contain two pocket dimensions opened by a small electrical current, one at or near the point where water vapour separates into individual atoms, and the other near absolute zero. With water's properties being changed so quickly a great suction is created, driving water in one side and out the other at a rate capable of draining rivers. The byproduct of the transition into steam and back to a liquid is that the water is pure.

The more you know

Never have an unfortunate accident because the magma doesn't harm him anymore. Granted knowing how it usually goes with Samus, the upgrade will probably be given AFTER he's done some platforming or faced other such perils where the upgrade would have been helpful.

WWUD if he were locked in a room with a ‼Plump Helmet Man‼?

Welp, curiosity is getting the better of me so it's time to slap this train back on the rails:

Will the improvements to mineral veins and the addition of mine maps have a major effect on worldgen in the number of metal items made? Will that then translate into a larger number of weapon/armor shops and a larger number of metal goods at the market? Will towns closer to major mines have more blacksmiths, miners, furnace operators, and shops containing the products of these jobs? Will there be warehouses full of iron ore/bars/goods in mining towns, or does worldgen space out items through trade too much to see that?

To occupy everyone else: Since the next release is a little ambiguous, what are you looking for from it and to what extent? I know the inn rewrite is going to include people in towns going to a tavern and drunks probably hanging around there more often, but do you think we'll have people praying at temples and farming in their fields during the day with seeds of whip vine and rope reed in their pockets? Or do you think it'll be more of a "meeting hall" framework that's set up just around the well or town square during the day?

Edit: Emphasis

The hamlet of squishydumplings nestled safely beneath the town of romancelanced. The Name Generator had a filthy mind that day

Great thread, I'm really getting enjoyment out of it, your writing style, and your artwork.
On another note, I suppose his "Awe-Inspiring Distraction" is the reason Heather fell in love with him?

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Aw crap, you DID warn us to keep our minds out of the refuse stockpile.

My current terrifying biome is just "misunderstood", I think. The fog causes minimal pain, the rain sometimes causes unconciousness, and there's been no undead. There doesn't even seem to be a resurrection interaction.

Is it called "The Peaks of Annoyance" or "The Plains of Inconvenience?" Maybe "The Forest of Impending Sniffles." You must have some germophobic Civs if THAT'S what they call a terrifying biome.

Ive had the same problem but it's actually a nice fix to two problems. People complain about getting cheated out of training skills by getting legendary migrants, and about the military training too slow. Thus you get to train your own people while standing a fighting chance if your military kicks the bucket.