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I came here to make a proposition that the Toady One should make totems and mechanisms also listed in trade list. I was also cosidering that in the trade screen you could list your products by their materials, like all thing made of bone, or stone, or leather etc. and also sub-materials, like goblin bones, granite or cat leather.  It would speed the finding of specific products, like totems and platinum crafts a lot...

-Matias

I think slavery should be incorporated into the game even though I personally am against slavery. I also am against killing people and stuff and I still play games that are about it. There have been some very good points for it and the two comments against it were based on a personal morals, nothing else.

I want it on because it should be possible. Slavery exists even today even in these so called civilised countries we live in and in USA it was officially cancelled only after civil war. But a kind of slavery is practised in many civilised countries even today; it is called forced labor. For exampple USA (and China and other asian countries, Russia, Turkey, Spain etc.) uses forced labor to some extent and they even pay for the prisoners (okey, like 50 cents per day), but in my point of view it still is slavery.

This is also a thing I want to include to slavery if it ever is implemented to DF. Just imagine forcing your nearly legendary craftsdwarf to work menial tasks for a year after tanuntruming after somebody fired his masterfull bonebolt... A way better punishment than the 3 hammerstrikes.

-Matias

Oh, if we include fortress guard working as fire fighters, shouldn't we have also a new noble: Fire chief. He will come after miners reach magma river and he'll work like sheriff without punishing people and occasionally ordering fire buckets or something to be build...

-Matias

Also some protective gear, like full leather armor...

-Matias

You can make goblins (or any other race/animal) butcherable by editting the raws. They are in data section.

-Matias

Well, if it is so confusing, just change them. Press esc and then go the key bindings and a couple of pages down are the keys for moving up and down. Now you move the cursor to the move up line, press k and then the new key you want it to be and repeat the process for the next key...

-Matias

Well, they do not rise that quickly. The rate, if I remember right, is about 1 degrees Fahrenheit (1 F equals roughly to 0,56 C) per 60 feets. If one "block" of area is about 3X3 feets, then going to the cave river (48 - 105 blocks away from the cliff face) is just 144 - 315 feets (50 to 100 meters) underground, so temperature would rise about 2,4 - 5,25 F (a little over 1 C to 3 C). Chasm (148 - 200) about 50 to 100 meters more and lava river (really hot here) should probably affect more to the temperature than the deepness of the cave. You should check the following link for a full report about cave weather:
http://www.nps.gov/wica/Cave_Meteorology.htm

-Matias