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The first time I found candy was in the first caverns at z35.  And then everyone burned.  So much burning.

This was just standard default world gen.

I laughed a lot during the chaos.  The last dwarf alive was my expedition leader who managed to get knocked into a cage trap and survive.

I've caught them with dormitories.  Of course, you end up with a dead dwarf usually.  But 100 dwarfs will narc on him.

I've also made a burrow that excluded food/drink and put everyone in it.  Anyone who gets hungry/thirsty is not a vamp and gets removed from the burrow.   Takes about a month in game to finger the one dwarf not starving/dehydrated.

And it warms my heart to see 100 dwarfs all rush to the booze at the same time.  Nothing better than a delicious beverage when you're really thirsty.

Minecarts are pure flavor.  I build them because I like the idea of minecarts to move bulk goods.  I find that wheelbarrows do just fine for moving stone if I don't want to deal with them.

Most of the discussion I've seen here is about moving magma with minecarts.

Peacocks, because well, cock.  They take a year to mature, lay 7ish eggs at a time.  Soon you'll have hundreds of cocks in your fort.  Beware the cocksplosion.  The first wave of hatchlings comes out just before the first caravan.  So you can butcher the first generation, and cook them and all the eggs, plus some quarry bush leaves.  Bux!  I've had as much as 50K Urist of meals to sell the first autumn.  The second generation matures before the second dwarf caravan.  Butcher 85% of them for more meals.  BUX!

I love cock.

Macro for 'select everything'.  Also useful for claiming stuff.  And chopping every tree in the world down.

MAGIC!

Is anyone else having a problem using quantum's bridge tossing method. I've got it working and it trains up the armor skill and toughens up the dwarves. But I end up with a lot of broken ears and knocked out teeth that result in my dwarf dying from infection awhile later. Anyone else having this issue? Only difference in my layout vers his original design is I don't have ramps under the bridge and I have a doorway that leads into the 1x2 area with the 2 1x1 retracting bridges.

This happens to me all the time.    I find I have to train the squad up before sending them into the pit.

Seems like infection is much worse this version.  I have clean water and soap and I'm still losing a large percentage of injured dwarfs to infection.  Hmm, unless somehow seed injuries are more prone to infection for some reason.  I've lost more dwarfs to infection in the last couple weeks than in the previous year.  It's quite vexing.

I still have the set dir / connect track error

So, If I'm using it in Guide, I'll never use the Rolles I done, right ?

I've done three things to get the "!set dir/connect track"

Set the guide/ride/push direction wrong.  Have a break in the track from not designating ramps correctly.  Have my stop actually off the tracks. 

I thought a trackstop would have tracks included.  I don't know why I thought that.  So I built the trackstop at the end of the rail, instead of on top of the end of the rail.