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Maybe he meant it as in Cornish pasty. That's food.

I started tracking the stats of a few babies. Already a one-year old has gone from great memory to good. Looks like Brainboy just happened to be born with several borderline stats which rusted over the line following the head injury.

That was the point I was trying to get across. Sorry if I was unclear.

I don't know if my fortress should normally be this calm, but I've never been attacked by any siege, ambush, or megabeast yet.  The worst I've had were thieves.

It is the winter of my fortress' 5th year.
My created wealth is 1,319,571.
My city is labelled as a Mountainhome and houses a Queen and a Baroness.
The population is 271 dwarves.  I had 275 earlier, but some were drained by my queen, who is a vampiress.  (All hail our vampire overlord!)
The fortress is located on a main continent.  No island civ here!
There are elves and goblins nearby, but neither have ever attacked.
I haven't yet breached the first cavern layer, but I might soon.
The fortress was built in "Wilderness" savagery.

Do I just live in pacifist world central?  I have five militias, but I've never needed them.  They just train all the time.  I've expected attacks from ANYTHING a long time ago... but nothing ever comes to hurt me.  It's almost a joke, haha!  I don't even get dingos to shoot at anymore since I killed all of them.

Assuming invaders are on for you, too, it's possible the invaders are just taking a really long time to get there. I had a fortress once that didn't see any invaders until something like eight years in. After that first ambush (which brought the goblin general with it, as I recall), I started getting two or three sieges a year.

Yeah, the material value for engraved gemstone walls and floors is much too high. After all, when you see a pink tourmaline wall in game, it's not really supposed to represent a meter cube of solid gemstone. It's some generic rock with a few gems sprinkled inside it, which you probably wouldn't even be able to see until you pulverized the rock. A 2x2 room with engraved solid gemstone walls, that really would be a royal bedroom.

I had a Dwarf who survived a massive cave in down a mineshaft because her skull took most of the fall damage.

Still trying to figure out how that works.

I wonder, do non-lethal brain wounds damage the mental attributes?

For what it's worth, I have a couple more pieces of information which may or may not be useful:

1) The child's mental attributes have declined measurably since the I took the screenshot immediately after the accident less than an in-game year ago. His analytical abilities have gone from poor to very bad and his sense of music has gone from neutral to iffy. Of course, if mental attributes rust, that could explain the change.

2) I tried healing the child with dfhack (I killed the program afterward) and his metal attributes did not improve. Then again, if mental damage did occur, there's certainly no guarantee that healing the brain tissue reverses it.

Kid was dropped on his head in a (de)construction accident. Any child who can survive a severe brain injury deserves to command a squad someday. Who cares if he never learns to tie his own shoes if his head can take that kind of punishment. Seriously, I didn't think it was possible for a dwarf to survive a head injury like that. Any other tales of miraculous survival?

If you have picks aside from the ones the trapped miners are holding, just keep assigning dwarves the mining labor and disabling other labors until someone decides to make himself useful. If you don't have picks, you could construct a staircase down to the miners.