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Hmm, did anyone find out how to add new civilizations without killing dwarves? It seems that in this version dwarves die whenever any other race is given [civ_controllable] tag, even if the dwarves still get to keep it :/

You need to add [INTELLIGENT] to their creature_standard.txt raw to make them act as non-pet type  

Hmm, quick question on pumps and water.

I'm planning on pumping water from one level below, through very long corridor ending in wall (duh), the corridor is infact channel running under the fortress, and on one higher level, there's dormitories etc with small pools of water.

The pumps stop pumping when the water reaches 7/7 level on the same level as the pump, or still pump more and overflow to the next level?

I had one fortress, where I had similiar system and it was working fine, but suddenly the whole fortress blew up in 7/7 water level. I'm not sure what happened, but it was so quick the game was too slow to pause, the whole fortress and outside map was filled with water (and everyone but one dwarf drowned, the happy dwarf was outside fetching ore for smith and he only got slightly wet ). Its possible that one peasant tried to access the pump room and opened door and pressure killed the fortress, cause I had one pump peasant but I ain't sure if I had his pump operation skill removed when I put up waterwheel powered pump in the room.

Just trying making sure before I ruin this fortress too  

Would it be possible to dig a magma channel around i.e 3x3 room to heat it and with access level about 2 levels higher (level with no walls, ie the pit is in large corridor) and then have dwarves chop pieces from the glacier and dump all 'water'-blocks to the pit? Would it actually melt and give you drinking place?

Btw don't worry about making mistakes in placing walls and floors. You can use [d]+[n] to tear down buildings and such, especially meaning walls and floors. You also won't loose anything  

Guess my start isn't average one then, looking at how other people start  

I start with:

1 newbie miner/1 grower
1 newbie miner/1 grower
1 newbie miner/1 grower
1 newbie woodcutter/1 grower
1 proficient carpenter/bower
1 proficient mason/armorcrafter
1 proficient weaponsmith with 2 in appraising, and 1 record/organize/persuade

Equipment wise, I drop the two steel axes and replace them with 5 tower cap logs, 5 copper bars. I buy 1 pickaxe more. Then I take 2 dogs and 2 cats and spend remaining points of seeds and such.

First things I mine till I get 2 rocks and set the smithes to build forge / woodburner and then I burn the logs and make the missing axe and make rest 4 to weapons of my choice for immigranting soldiers.

Then I quickly mine foodstorage and farm under grass and start farming. After these are set up, I start building the fortress  

Hmm, that's very good idea  

Maybe I'll do him the same I did in my last fortress to someone who made nice artifact table. Give them nice room, and accidently lock the door!

I've got two stupid things...

Every blacksmith I get with strange mood turns in to legendary furnace operator

And I had a fortress where the first big wave (second year) brought 3 craftsdwarves, one by one everyone of them went to strange mood. But only 2 finished. One guy wanted wood, there was plenty of all types on map, he didn't want any, went wild, kicked dog, got swarmed by dog pack   Second one became legendary leatherworker, third too. Second one drowned by river side and third is now a soldier because of his superdwarvenly tough stat   But hey I want some better legendarys