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As far as I know, cave and magma creatures do not respawn. Wildlife should, however.
Did you have wildlife in the first place? Because it is possible to embark on a map that lacks wildife.

Your trader problem might be fixable by deconstructing and rebuilding your trade depot..
As for you skylights, maybe you can build a extra underground passageway to be used in case of siege? If you set it's traffic designation to restricted your dwarfs will still use the skylighted passages when they are allowed to go outside.
Or even simpler, make two doors so you can lock the extra passageway when you don't want it used.

Thanks for the info.
It can't be a RAM issue though. My old PC has 2 Gig, my laptop only 1.
Must be like you say, Windows eating part of the core's power.

Aw bummer!

I just managed to get my 'old' pc back to work.
This one is not yet dual core, but it's single cpu is an AMD Athlon that runs around 1.3 Mhz.
This is faster than a single core of my dual AMD Turion Processor.
Since DF does not (yet) use dual core technology, I thought it would run faster on my old PC.
Wrong. Quite a bit slower even.
But what strikes me as odd is that when I pause the game, the FPS count stops at 87-88 instead of going to the max of 100.
Anybody have any idea how that could be?

You can dig an up staircase from a wall. But remember you will still have to dig a down staircase from the layer above. If you have already mined out the wall, you will have to build a staircase with (b)uild >>(C)onstruct building >>(u)p staircase. Then you can dig a down staircase from the layer above to connect, or if there is empty space above the stairs, you can now build a down staircase.
If you like, you can also build longer stairs with the up/down staircase option.

Well actually your mayor is elected based, among others, on the number of friends he has and his social skills. Since social skills develop when dwarves are on break or partying, the longer your dwarf lives in the fort, the better his social skills. So yeah. Mostly it are your skilled dwarfs who are elected.
My mayor still lives though. The Gand Royal Dining room manages to keep him happy so far. The last mayor was a grumpy ass anyway.

Help!

My last mayor died in prison after accidentally killing a legendary bowyer  :mad:

How he got to tantruming was by failing to meet a demand he had for 'item in office/throne room'.

I tried to build everything, all in silver when possible (he liked silver), green glass window, clear glass window, gem window, extra bed, tomb chain, cage. Nothing worked. Furniture in normal stone? Nope. He likes Rhyolite too, but it is not present on the map. Not even the bronze Colossus statue worked..  :confused:

My legendary champion has been elected as the next mayor. Now he has a demand for 'item in bedroom'. What could it possibly be? I don't want to see this mayor freak out, he'd probably kill the whole fortress. Anyone?