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At some time they were, but no they aren't anymore which is kinda annoying after several +20 goblin ambushes. I started wondering why my stockpile seemed so full all the time and noticed that my dwarves haul narrow clothes into my bins but not the totems (well, a couple, but not the 80 I need to sell to make some room). And since they are not shown in the craft section, I usually forget them until I have bought out the caravan.

Okay, I could offer them to the traders as bribes gifts to their leaders, but it seems so unchallant to give them let's say 20 totems.

So, please, could the totems be added t the crafts list?

-Matias

After an extensive goblin siege (20 casualties on my side ), miasma and stuff all my 6 jail cages were in use and more criminals needed some penal housing. I ordered 10 more metal cages to be made and about a day after that my metalcrafter takes on an aspect of a fey and claims my only forge. Great. After nearly a month of furious work she produces this:

Erläth Eren, "Thinshoved the Band of Liberty", a billon chain.

Those goblins that will come next year and slaughter every one (unless I'm lucky) will probably understand and put that legendary chain into good use when they find it...

-Matias

I was trapping in cave river for lobsters and cave fish to be put into my aquarium. I did get them and I also got a couple of cave spiders. Well, I didn't need the traps anymore, so I left them into the traps in animal stockpile. Suddenly, during the game I realize one of them is missing. I shrug and assume that it died or something. After few months I actually see one dwarf coming to the animal stockpile, crab the spider, go to the table and eat it. I was dumb struck. I have a lot of food so (s)he just couldn't be hunting for vermin. As far as I know, spiders don't show in kitchen as edible/cookable like lobsters do... Has anyone other had this kind of behavior in their forts...

-Matias

Ps. As an afterthought, I have seen S.-American indians eating tarantulas, so it isn't so horrid after all, just weird...

Actually goblins shot quite many animals like a war dog, four puppies, a muskox, a couple of fowls and their mother along with metalcrafter and siege engineer. Only the war dog was a pet, but I can't butcher the corpses of those unfortunate puppies and fowls. Did the goblins use poisoned arrows or something so that my dwarves decided they were not edible or is this unintentional? Or do the dwarves consider the fallen animals as war heroes?

-Matias

I don't know if this has been suggested before (didn't find anything with search), but I'd like to assign my coffins to a person after they die. Like one of my trappers how got ripped apart (19 dwarf chunks + severed hand and leg) by wolves. Now I can't assign him a coffin because he is dead. In real world graves are usually made after you die exept with the very wealthy.

-Matias

While I was playing DF, I came up with a notion that critters doesn't leave horns after they die even if they have 'em. So I think horn would be a perfect material for craftdwarves as in real life it can be used to form flutes, handels for weapons, figurines, decorations etc. It also came to my mind that some aphrodiasiacs could be nice, like spanish fly. It would increase the chances for child birth. And as a Finn, I noticed that colder climate animals should include reindeer and bluefox. Bluefox could have expensive fur and reindeer could have horns (that could be used as an aphrodisiac after grounding).

-Matias