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This might be a very newb question but if I embard and I press c, and the only civ is a dwarf civ, does that mean all the other civs died out or they just haven't been discovered yet?

So I accidentally asked the trader for limonite blocks instead of just limonite?

Is there anyway to smelt them?

I keep seeing people talking about playing a small map at 1x1 and some people talk about 12x12 map (but probably too big)...

My question is, what is the default size of a map, how can you tell what it is, and how can you change it to something else?

Vampires overall sound like they need to be fleshed out in general, but one thing that would make a great addition is a dwarven priest or holy man who serves as anti-vampire role.

Once you become a metropolis you should get a "wandering holy man" who will ask you to take up residence as a noble whose quest it is to "root out evil". Not only should he seek out vampires (and possibly other beasts) but also religious practices that he deems intolerable. Sometimes one will arrive chasing a vampire that has migrated, other times he will come seeking to spread his beliefs.

If a vampire crime has occurred, the holy noble will go around checking out other dwarfs and make an accusation. But beware, the holy man might be biased and accuse someone of a different god than he worships simply out of prejudice to face the wrath of the hammer.

When the vampire is dealt with (or there wasn't one to begin with) the  holy man will go and try to convince other dwarfs to worship his god of choice. But look out for FUN! if you decide to let a holy man into your fort, if the other dwarf doesn't convert, then the holy man will get an unhappy thought and if too many unhappy thoughts occur, the holy man will become enraged and take out his wrath on your heathen fort by going berserk. (a social holy man will get more people converting worship of gods and a less social one will have more trouble).

Also as a bonus, if a clown appears on the map, the holy man will become enraged and have bonus fighting clowns until he dies in a martyrdom crusader like kind of fashion.

Not seen this one before which is strange because the last time I looked they had the nest boxes claimed. Now I got some peacocks into the same pasture who claimed two nest boxes but the hens are just sitting around not laying eggs.

Anything I should do?

So I went about creating a proper 3x3 prison room with bed, table, chair and two food and drink stockpiles, but my dwarfs insist on using the chair and table to eat on and persistently take food and drink out of the stockpile.

The prison was pathed outside the grand dinging hall and food/drink stockpiles so I thought that perhaps the dwarfs were just lazy and were taking the shortest path to food and drink so I made it so you had to go through the grand dining hall and food and drink stockpiles but they still went to the prison room to do their business. So I made an extremely long hall so that they would have to travel an insane distance to get to the prison room but they still insist on traveling through the dining hall (which has plenty of empty chairs) all the way to the room to eat.

I guess I could just remove the chair and table and see what happens but I think they will still try to take food and drink out of the stockpiles or is it because the stockpile has a higher number and had a higher order of preference to the dwarfs?

So I got a handful of dwarfs who are unhappy because they complain about the long patrols and drafts. Currently I have the schedule as a lenient on month off month of training and even then only 6 members are required to train out of 10.

Are my dwarfs hippie pansies or should I do something to improve their moral? I guess I could put statues in the barracks and smooth everything out to see if that helps.