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The common dwarf is actually a shy creature that relies on sonar and on their incredibly finetuned hearing to recognise what kind of stone they're shouting at.

The dwarven shyness however often makes them more than a bit embarassed to use their sonic capabilities in public, so they drink lots of alcohol to counteract this. This is also the reason why they get upset if they do not have enough alcohol to drink: they hate having to stumble blindly through the tunnels.

Kaolinite and bauxite look better though.

Also, I love using olivine and rutile, if I have them.

Petrified wood only shows up in tiny amounts though, so you can't really use it as well.

My fort has now a new enemy : the dwarf merchants from the dwarven caravan.

During that trading session we made a very good deal, my dwarves were even generous enough to let the merchants have a bit more than 1000 of "profit" , and those traders refused each time, wanting my dwarves to obviously increase their profit that was already rather high.

And after a while of those merchants absurdly refusing, they suddenly decided my dwarves werent serious enough to trade anymore, leaving with some items i really had an use in the current situation.

In past trading we had nice deals, so i wasn't expecting that time those dwarven merchants greed would know no limit.
Even the humans and the elves merchants were reasonnable, next time the dwarven caravan come, i'll give them a well deserved reward for their greed, a very very cheap death trap.
Will give them a great "profit", heh.

I've had exactly the same situation the second time the Dwarven caravan came. I missed it the first time. I prepared levered spikes and a supported ceiling to cave in over them should it go wrong again but I had no issues this time. It might help if you do the trading in tiny chunks and keep the expensive stuff aside.

Well, it's contaminated now. Bummer. But salt water has no effect on (soapy) baths and the one wounded guy I ever had didn't have any negative effects/thoughts from it either. I checked.

I relaid everything in the cistern with blocks but to no avail. Water is still salt. For a completely looney and unrelated project I've been pumping ocean-water directly on to red sand floor (surrounded by stone walls) and this water isn't salt. Wut.

Anyway. I just saw the sweetest thing ever in-game. There were 5 goblin ambushes in short order. The first killed a single axedwarf and shot a farmer in the foot before/while being murdered by a second single axedwarf. An ambush elsewhere shot a goose, murdered a trader (useless sod) and killed a dwarf. Elsewhere an other dwarf was killed as well. Another dwarf was also wounded, in the leg.

Right, three dwarves dead.

Thieves appeared. Lots of them. Whatever, cage traps. One got spotted by a gem cutter far away from the traps. (note to self: don't bother gathering plants. Dangerous and pointless) She slashed the cutter in the arm.

All three wounded dwarfs are brought to hospital and treated with surprising efficiency. The gem cutter with the arm wound left first. Now here's the sweet thing. The farmer with the foot-wound was thirsty and her treatments had just finished. I think she was on her way to get a drink. Suddenly my legendary blacksmith comes rushing in with a bucket, fills it, rushes back out and gives it to the farmer even though she had already left the hospital!

Well, it's contaminated now. Bummer. But salt water has no effect on (soapy) baths and the one wounded guy I ever had didn't have any negative effects/thoughts from it either. I checked.

Hmm. I sort of recall being able to filter salt water via pumping, does that still work? I've got a reservoir full of water laced with salt and although it's perfectly fine for washing (and drinking, apparently) it still seems a bit odd.

To clarify, I linked a moat to the ocean and a small chamber of water to the bottom of the moat. This chamber fills with salt water and a pump above it pumps it into a reservoir beneath my hospital wells. It was a clay-ish sort of soil where I made this reservoir but I laid floors and built walls all-round. Unless I missed a spot (which doesn't seem unlikely) it should be fresh water.

You know this means we'll get Nobles wanting Slade Windows, right?

Nope, I'm fairly sure they don't mandate/demand/request materials anymore. Windows, yes. Slade, only if you can manage it.

Also, I'm not sure why we're suddenly supposed to be able to see through a stone-gem window. It's not as if you can actually look through a window of gems. The things are usually either too opaque too look through or too multi-faceted to do anything other than screwing up your eyes if you try to look through them.

I always envisioned them as a standing grate-rack-gridiron sort of thing with gems stuck to it.