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Maybe the dorfs' year. Not mine. So there. 

Levers work just as well.

Anyhow, I've still got to wait for the crocs to grow up. Hatchlings are no good; I need full-grown ones. How long is their adolescent stage?

I'd make some really spiffy boots for everyone.  Urist McDwarf be pimpin'!

You wish. They don't give leather--no skin, just "scale". And, for some weird reason, nose cartilage.

So I ordered some cave crocodiles from the Mountainhome... because let's face it, cave crocodile eggs are delicious. Put the females in nest boxes and they're feeding my fort. Chain up the males for guard animals.

But you can guess what happened, right?

Everybody's cleaning up after a siege... the nest boxes are unwatched... and suddenly I get multiple instances of "Cave crocodile hatchlings have hatched!" and then combat messages from all those hatchlings biting each other's faces off.

I now have 365 cave crocodile hatchlings (one for every day of the year, apparently), and half the fort is occupied in stuffing them into cages. They should be mature in a couple of years.

But here's the question: What do you do with hundreds of cave crocodiles?

A squad just called itself "The Swords of Evisceration".

Unfortunately, they're a crossbow squad. *Facepalm.*

Make a large 10x10 raising bridge inside a 10x10 room with one door. Attach the bridge to a lever. Raise the bridge. Turn off all burrows. Create one burrow right under the bridge. Create another burrow that includes all of the map except that area under the bridge. Assign all useless dwarves to the burrow under the bridge and all useful dwarves to the other burrow. Wait for dwarves to run to their burrows. Pull the lever. I like this method better than dropping them from 10+ z-levels because there are no bodies to clean up.

You will also need one slab per dead dwarf, unless you like ghosts.

BTW, other ways to raise your FPS include turning off temperature and weather. Temperature is necessary for magma, fire, and cold/heat effects, but otherwise not really needed. Weather is a source of minor bad thoughts and little else (with the exception of cursed weather, which can be more troublesome). I don't think it's cheating to turn those off, if you want to. Of course, magma will be essentially red water; but that's a worthwhile trade-off when FPS matters. Also slaughter or cage all excess livestock. You can pasture unwanted pets beneath an execution bridge.

At the moment, I've got a fort in a terrifying biome. This means lots and lots of death, and lots and lots of slabs (sixty-some, at the moment). I also have some un-memorializable ghosts from merchants' guards. They are all peaceful ghosts, and nobody knew them, so they are not causing much trouble.

What I've noticed is that these ghosts are almost always to be found in the memorial hall. They died outside (to the zombie horde, what else?), and they don't have relatives memoriaized there.

Is this a known phenomenon? Do ghosts always hang out in memorial halls, if one is available; or do they head for statue gardens, meeting halls, etc., gathering places in general?

Set your orders to gather refuse from outside; then the dwarves will carry the corpses inside to your refuse stockpile for your butchers to work on. The smaller animals probably won't be butchered, but those wild boars are plenty big enough.