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so when the history counter starts at zero all civilizations used exclusivly stone and wood tools. After a few years they figure out how to make copper and bronze, bronze tools and weapons become more and more common as time progresses, next an iron age, eventually a steel age and maybe after long enough history some adamantium.
Mainly relevant for adventurer mode, if you play in a world with a very short history metal objects are very rare both among goblin bands and in town stores, a single iron sword would be an immensly powerful and valuable weapon. If on the other hand you play in a world with  a very long history iron equipment is plentyful everywhere and even steel is quite common. You can get full body steel armor in any decent town store but the goblins use the stuff too.
Similarly precious metals and gems get more and more common and less and less valuable as history progresses.
If implemented it would make wealth accumulation in adventurer mode much more meaningful. In dwarf mode it also influences what trade caravans offer, what they are interested in and what they pay for it as well as the equipment your foes during sieges will use.

I (ab)use the nickname feature for dwarf management. Every dwarf is assigned one or a few useful professions it should be doing and then gets a nickname like 'furnace+metalcraft'. Whenever some new migrants arrive I stop the game and assign all of them to something useful, might take a while but I think worth it. Then whenever you see you have a lot of idlers you can check on the unit screen very easily what these dwarfs should be doing so you can start a new appropriate project for the idlers.

so Istarted a new fort in an area with an aquifer, went for the cavein technique to get through and although it did work one of my miners got injured in the cavein, makes the initial build up much more fun.
my initial supplies included 2 buckets and after I set up the hospital for a while the dwarfs were using them to give water to the patient. But after I put that rockcoffers in the hospital the hospital appropriated the two buckets that were now listed as hospital property. It seems that this means the buckets can not be used anymore, at least not for giving water to a hospital patient, poor guy died of dehydration???
Is that normal, I thought that was what the hospital needs the buckets for. I got job cancellations Urist McNurse can't give water because he can't find a bucket for while so I'm pretty sure the buckets are the issue.

My character refuses to eat/drink with the message 'you are too full' inspite of being still hungry and thirsty.
Character was dehydrated (and hungry) and after drinking one water still dehydrated (and hungry) but refuses to drink any more because he is too full.
I'm confused.

I justed started a region and also the embark screen did not list flux stones it has several layers of limestones. So I got everything I want, it just seems that the embark screen doesn't properly tell you about the flux stones, I guess I will just start and check.