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OK, then how do I tell how pregnant they are? 

My goal here is to use danger rooms to train up all my dwarves as super melee fighters.  I'm assuming that a woman could get grumpy on seeing her baby impaled on a danger room spike.  The options I see right now are:

1.  Lower the baby cap to prevent pregnancies.  Would that affect adult immigration?

2.  Make all the women marksdwarves and await the inevitable sex-discrimination lawsuit.

3.  Somehow know when a woman is likely to give birth, and pull her out of the danger room during that time.

Another other ideas?

If I had FPS woes (or when I get them), I would go after stockpiles.  I would guess that each tick, each square in a stockpile searches every item on the map to see if it should generate a work order.  Multiply items by stockpiles in a mature fortress, and you have a really big number.  I would turn off all my workshops, erase all my stockpiles, and see what happened to FPS.

The previous version had an option to keep your soldiers close to their station, or give chase.  Does the current version have anything like that?  My soldiers are chasing the enemy halfway across the map.

If the dwarves can clean up the blood, then it's just a labor allocation issue.  If water can wash away the blood, then it's an engineering issue.

I suspect that Toady has big plans for the Cleaning labor.  It was always on the labor list and turned on by default, even back in the 2D auto-clean days when it served no discernable purpose.  Soap-making also goes back to the 2D days, even though it was useless for years.  Now death by infection stalks the hospital, and the medical model is much more detailed.

I think that Toady will eventually hit us with Plague, hopefully treatable by Golden Salve or some such, but mostly preventable by soap and lots of cleaning.  It's historical.  It's realistic.  And it would be a Fun challenge for large forts with high population density.

Can't the dwarves clean up the blood?

In the old version, I think that blood disappeared automatically with the season change.  Does that no longer happen?

no farm plots? how? you cant sustain an entire fortress with plant gathering.

It's much easier than it sounds, especially if you have two soil layers.  With diligent irrigation and rock-clearing, there's no limit to the quantity of plants that you can grow.  Brew the plants, then cook the seeds.  Add some milk, some fish, and some meat, and your larder is full.

That's a great word for this: Workgroups.  They're like squads, but for civilians.  Or they're like burrows, but not automatically tied to geography.  Workgroups could just be an abstract way of bundling dwarves into groups, and then you could manipulate the whole group: assign the whole group to a burrow, change the whole group's work orders, etc.

I'm no expert on extracts.  I've never milked a purring maggot or squeezed a moghopper.  But the Extracts article is wrong in so many ways.

1.  Extracts is not an entry in the Stocks menu.  I think it appears on the embark menu.  The article needs some clear idea of what counts as an extract, and why the term is even meaningful in DF.  I suggest: "Extracts are liquids extracted from animals and plants in a workshop.  Some extracts are currently functional, while others have not yet been implemented."

2.  The article is wrong on which extracts can be produced in-game.  I propose to reorganize it in two simple lists or charts: working extracts and non-working extracts.  Each entry shows the extract, the workshop that produces it, the ingredient, the labor, the value, and the use.

3.  Is there really a good reason to even have an extracts article?  Maybe it would be better to have a comprehensive list of liquids.  It could include references to the articles on water, magma, blood, alcohol, and milk.  I don't see any reason for lumping together a subset of the liquids and calling them extracts.  It might be interesting if extracts all came from animals, but apparently Gnomeblight comes from Kobold Bulbs.