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I'm old fashion... is there any way to easily make sure all males where a shirt and all females where a dress?  It's annoying when I see my male dwarves wearing a dress.

This might be an easy problem to fix since the scenario seems pretty simple:
    When playing the game it only crashes when years are passing on World Creation  IF  I have copied a set of 'design advanced parameters'  .  So the game never crashes if I use the default LARGE REGION, but if I copy this set of parameters and rename to A LRG REGION then save without making any internal setting changes then try using this custom set the game will crash.  At first I thought it was some setting I adjusted, but after dozens of tests I have recognized it happens for any set of parameters which I have copied.  Sometimes the game will reach 150 years without crashing, but it's rare.
    Anyone familiar with this mystery crash?

UPDATE:  What I found has worked is giving the copied parameters a title and name...  the  t   and  n   options.   After having done this it's working.... very strange.

My dwarves seem to spend LOTS of time praying at the temple.  The wiki doesn't mention anything other than having a coffer with music instruments, plenty of space and maybe adding some performers. I have those already. My carpenter spent 7days praying and with different types of praying (such as meditation) before finally stopping.  Besides building custom temples for each deity is there any way to speed the process of praying?

I see several of my dwarves praying to their deity, but some are colored green while others are colored purple with an exclamation mark.  What's the difference between them ?

I've recognized the clothing workshop and leather workshop don't allow making Tunics and Shirts.  I only see the option for making a dress for the under category of upper body.  Anyone know of a method for having more types of clothing options for male dwarves on the under category of upper body??      Thanks in advance. 

I could not find any topics about training children which were not at least 2 years old, so I created this topic since those old topics might have incorrect information.  Not sure why teenage dwarves are not allowed to be 'students' learning skills, especially in a world where violent monsters and civilizations attack to kill!!  I am sure JRR Tolkien would also agree that younger dwarves would not be lazy the first 18years.

Anyways, the wiki where it mentions removing the -child- tag as an option, but do any other methods or tricks exist so we don't have these lazy dwarves for 12 years!???

Besides what is mentioned in the dwarf fortress wiki...  are there any tools so I can quickly change the gear my companions are wearing with new gear I'm finding?   A bowman in my group placed his bronze boot inside the quiver and he is obviously too stupid to equip the boot himself. 

I think everyone here would be happy with more gamers playing dwarf fortress since it increases revenue for the two creators as well as increasing mods for the game. I see many features and game depth which dwarf fortress provides which simply don't exist within other games or is simply done better by dwarf fortress. With such a great game I began checking with other gamers why this game wasn't being played as compared to other games such as minecraft, civilization, etc., etc., .  These other games have a massive following yet weaker game depth.

The vast majority of gamers informed me they simply found the graphics as too weak, even importing the modded graphic packages wasn't enough to keep them playing long enough to discover the beauty inside the game itself. The game doesn't need fancy graphics... basic 2D would work just enough where the visual allows the imagination to understand what's coming upon the first time a gamer sees it.

Dwarf fortress easily has greater game depth than minecraft... I'm just wondering when will dwarf fortress become more visually appealing in order to lure the massive number of gamers in the world, thus doubling or tripling the size of donations to the game each month. The game will also receive more praise and recognition by the gaming community as popularity grows.

I realize updating the graphics inside the game would be a HUGE project, but based on the benefits afterwards it feels like the right path. I like playing dwarf fortress now... just mentioning what I found holding back the game on popularity.