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I had a small danger room accident and now I have a baby with a few injuries, unconscious but still alive. It seems the mother is still carrying it around, not sure whether she noticed anything. Will she bring it to the hospital? If she sustains a minor injury and goes to the hospital herself will they treat the baby, too?

Question: is it possible to mod (dwarfen) blood to be counted as an alcohol for dwarfen consumption? If so, how?
This came about from thinking about vampires, while they require no food or drink they become pretty useless in a fort after a while because their not drinking booze makes them slow down to a crawl. So question, what can you mod in to make vampires more useful members of your fort?  Storywise feeding on another dwarf would be the ideal solution, so if you can modify dwarven anatomy in a way that makes there blood count as an alcoholic drink well fed vampires would be very productive members of your fort.
 

So while the learning curve is steep once you know what you are doing it takes only a small number of dwarfs to keep a large fortress going. A single planter and a single cooker+brewer produce enough food for a 100 dwarf fortress, one furnace operator plus one smith can fully equip a whole army in a season or two and after you find gold or another valuable metal you have more wealth than you know what to do with.
Hence my idea to create a mod that makes the dwarfen economy a lot harder. I plan to put a bunch of changes together and upload them here.
Metal industry:
A ton of iron ore cantains quite a lot of iron but in real world mining a ton of gold ore is considered very rich if contains something like 25g of gold. So I would change various ore smelting reaction so that one gold ore gives you a gold bar with say 20% probability and nothing otherwise. Also abolish all ore to alloy reactions, if you want alloys like bronze make them from bars. I know how do this, all are simple changes in the mineral raws
food industry:
I would like to increase the amount of food and alcohol a dwarf needs by about a factor of 5. Is this in the raws somewhere, or are there good workarounds that achieve the sam effect?
happiness:
increase the amount of wealth needed to make a room great, legendary etc by a factor of 10. I could mod the raw value of the items but is there a more direct way to do that?
leather:
Currently a cat produces the same amount of leather as an elephant, can I change it so that the amount of raw hides corresponds to the amount of meat you get from slaughtering? Then change tanning so that that a raw hide gives a leather only about 10% of the time, so an elephant would still give several leather but one would need half a dozen cats to get a single unit of leather.
other ideas:
possible change masonry so that it requires several stones for a table or a wall.

Thanks for any hints of what has already been done in this direction, how to do things and other usefuls ideas.

So I thought every embark has 3 cavern layers where the highest one goes up to something like z-level 70-80. I started an embark (normal 4x4 size) in a freezing biome with a volcano and after lots of digging I found one level of caverns at z-level 2. Just checked it with dfhack prospect, the only plants / trees on the map are on z-levels 7 to -7, liquid water is on z-levels -2 to -7. So apparently this embark has only a single cavern layer, the lowest of the normal three.

On a side note, the wiki states that a well can be arbitrarily high above the water source and this is indeed true. A single bar of gold was enough to make a chain reaching down a total of 125 z-levels from the well to the water source. No idea what would be left of a dwarf that falls in there.

edit: I did use 'prospect all' to check, sorry for confusing wording. I did some more exploratory digging, straight lines through the entire embark horizontal and vertical every 25 tiles, repeat every 20 z-levels. If there are any cavern layers above z-level 7 they have to be really tiny and void of any plants, trees and water, so I don't think there are any.

so I have two hunters that are getting a lot of life target practice but suddenly they both started to give me job cancellation spam:
Urist McHunt cancels hunt, could not find path.
One of them is outdoors and the other one one is chilling in the main meeting area. Is it possible to get that message because they killed all wildlife they can get to? The only wild animals on my map are two birds high up in the air and some stuff in the caverns that are walled off.
Wildlife eventually gets renewed, right? So eventually there will be new stuff to hunt? Maybe they are now good enough that they kill of wildlife faster than it respawns?

if I tell the manager to make say 20 stone crafts the task will be distributed equally over all craft workshops
I would like to have one work shop for bone bolts, one for candy strands and one for or two for actual trade good crafting.
I achieved the seperation of work shops by assigning the suitable dorfs to be the only ones allowed to work in the particular workshop
now the candy work shop gets assigned a few stone crafts too, the candy dorf doesn't have stone crafting enabled and he is the only one allowed to work there so the crafts never get done and he doesn't do any candy there either.
I can manually delete the stone craft jobs in the workshop but is there an automated way to set this up?
Using burrows would run into the same issue I think.

I noticed that my dorfs occasionally switch the mayor. This does not trigger an announcement, I only notice a little afterwards when he changes the mandates.
I support dorf democracy but is it normal that there is nothing in the announcements? I feel this is a bug an a newly elected mayor should cause the game to pause and notify me.
Does anyone know when new elections happen, how often, what are they triggered by?