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going to test what blue sam posted. i know economics are still on "on" in the raws, but in the game its disabled anyway, huh ?

Not the dwarves' economics, yours! He called your machine suboptimal...
(With which I'll have to disagree; it's pretty nice to the 2.0 GHz laptop with 2 GB RAM that is five years old and bluescreens every so often on which I have to play.)

For immigrant children, I quarantine them in a separate sealed wing with the vampires of the fort, which helps a quite a bit.

Yes.

If you atomsmash, I don't think they'll even cause negative thoughts, assuming you get a slab engraved... but the other methods are much more fun.

It will cause two, at least in old versions - "has lost a relative lately" and "had to endure the decay of a loved one lately". This might have changed though.

He probably wants a legendary Weaponsmith who made an artifact silver warhammer decorated with a metric truckload of platinum.

Not an artifact platinum warhammer that menaces with spikes of silver?

(Or even a lead warhammer that menaces with spikes of platinum?)

(Which is better for hammers, lead or platinum?)

(I need to stop using brackets...)

When exactly - under which conditions - does this bug happen? Has it been reported yet?

The leader would usually be flushed first, right? Then why not let the leader be flushed down a chute without a stair and provide an alternative way to the bottom chamber - lined with cage traps which will be triggered by goblins trying to reach the leader without all that "Oh my leader is caged I will not continue or flee" jazz. I'll have to try this out sometime - maybe someone else could redesign his system to try this?

Also, for building destroyers try a convoluted hallway that leads to a statue filled with traps (the hallway, not the statue). That should take care of them.

The basic issue is the loyalty cascade.  Because the grabs and holds the werecreature establishes while mauling tend to continue beyond transformation they become an enemy of the fortress and are attacked while not transformed, causing a loyalty cascade.

It also appears to be impossible to get the dwarves to bite without transforming, they definitely don't do it during sparring.

Really, the solution is zombie heads.

(Anyone gonna sig that? )

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AFAIK raised heads use a bite attack instead of the normal strike or whatever. Apart from undead head armies being better than headless undead armies, this should make spreading lycantrophy rather easy - if you can get your hands on a necromancer or evil biome as well as a werebeast:

1. Behead werebeast.
2. Animate head.
3. Let a dwarf fight the head. (Better use a medium-size one; too large and it will kill the dwarf, too small and the dwarf will kill it before being bitten.)
4. Rinse and repeat; then enjoy your army that once a month will completely heal and morph into some werebeast. (I wish it were a were-wren...)

I want them as mounts.

Then, I will turn up the volume and blast Wagner.

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The Irregular

Eagle guts

Severed monkey tails

Zombie heads.

Seriously, nothing better than an army of heads hopping around and biting people until they are kaputt.