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Yeah, murders committed under fell mood are not crimes when considering the dwarven society. When one of those fell mooders kills one of your legendary guys, you are going to keep it as a crime. I have drowned one such idiot...

-Matias

Definently water. I've lost about 30 dwarves due to a troll that went through my floodgate, several miners into moats, and several nobles and a couple of legendary crafters to seasonal floods. My dwarves just can't swim...

I've never had any dwarf succumbing to starving even in my first fortresses. I usually rush to the river and build about 10 x 20 or so farming area and floodgate it. Then I plant plump helmets for the first two seasons and then carry on to the other crops. I also fish, hunt and gather food and manage well enough until caravans come. Now I have about 2000 lavish meals for my 96 dwarves. On the other hand  I have 13 farmers and 8 peasants that are also farming.

-Matias

I usually handle the situation so that I only by 10 food at a time and wait until my haulers have nearly finished hauling those. Then I'll by another 10 and so on. After most of the food is in my storage I buy all the stuff I want and that's not going to rot. It usually helps, if you set your dwarves to ignore minerals (o -> s). You can check how much there is left to haul by pressing t and then moving your cursor to the depot. Then you'll see all the stuff that sits in the depot. In this list stuff waiting for trade is marked with yellow after the items name, stuff that has a hauling job attached to it is marked with cyan [tsk] and stuff that does not have hauling job is marked with empty space. It is easy to go through the list and check how much stuff there still is to be moved and decide to shop again when there is few item to be moved to storages.

-Matias

My legendary engraver is producing lots of masterful engravings of withering platinum flasks, among other things. How does metal wither? Does it imply of me not using my legendary platinum flask, what do you think? Or is this just program fitting words together without realizing their meaning?

-Matias

Actually there is something like a high quality cut gem. It's called large gem and it is finished good on its own and it can be encrusted and decorated as well... It's not very common though and I think it has nothing to do with gem cutters skill...

-Matias

I had a "Dreamy wisp of drooling", it had a picture of dwarf melting...

-Matias

Platinum and gold items are also very good, minimum price for glod item is 300, I think. A lots more for platinum, don't remember though...

-Matias

Umm, try these:
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Water_wheel
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Windmill

-Matias