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I think natural variability would at best be a detriment to game play. It wouldn't effect player behavior most of the time. But there may be times when a player wants a precise weight for a particular purpose. In the real world, people would weigh some rocks, and pinch a bit off or add a bit as needed but in DF that's not possible. Having materials with a fixed mass is useful in those cases.

For example, someone may want to skip a minecart full of wood across a channel and catch it on the landing in a single tile. If the weight of the contents are too variable, then you cannot make the channel and landing the perfect width and distance. That's one less way to have fun in DF.

I'm in general in favor of more accurate simulation, but not in this.

It probably makes sense for the coke reaction to produce more coke. Same with wood and charcoal.

Instead of making dwarf traffic blocked on intersecting carts, it's probably safer to block cart traffic when dwarves try to cross the track.

Hauling routes are for minecarts, and animal carts, why not wheelbarrows too? It would work just like a guided mine cart, except no tracks are needed, and the capacity is much less.

Yeah, not fond of having migrants be grumpy because they can't do their useless skills they came to the fort with.

Ingenious intrusive take a long time. Igneous extrusive would take moments, with sufficient cooling. Currently obsidian is the only true igneous extrusive rock in DF, which obviously isn't the case in real life.

There are different kinds of magma, which DF does not model. Some flows fast, some flows really slow. The rate of cooling also varies.

Tables and chairs can't cause collision damage though, and mine carts can. So it's an open question.

Contaminants won't spread on offloaded maps. And most creatures don't actually drink.