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Minecarts can carry water/magma.  Water pistons are possible.

I'm guessing your butcher shop is outside and you have (o)rders (r)efuse (o)"dwarfs ignore refuse outside" set.

I've done this befure

You can run DF on a Linux desktop and then SSH to it from your tablet. I think I remember a thread from a long time ago of someone who did that.

This.

If you don't have a linux desktop, you can fake it with VirtualBox on windows.  Which is what I do.
Alternately, some other remote desktop program for windows.  SSH is just nice because of super low bandwidth.

All good stuff.  Wanted to point out that water flows downstairs, but you can't pump from a staircase.  You'll need a channel.

Murky pools refill in the rain.  Build a wall around it, and a floodgate can be used to dump more water in the system every so often if it's a rainy area.  If you're worried about flying BUILDINGDESTROYERs, you could use a raised bridge instead of a floodgate.

I've filled cisterns many times the size of the murky pool using this system.

No dogs allowed in squads.

Assign war dog to dwarf (v)iew (p)references (e)eeesomething

(i)zone(n)pen(N)assign war dogs to pen.

You didn't ask but, (i)zone(t)raining to make a war dog training zone
It can be the same one as above

Angry retort, and something else...

Seriously, I have a fever and can't keep this side of the argument going without someone arguing for tilesets.  All I see so far is people arguing for ascii and people arguing about arguing.  Where are the tileset guys?  Probably sucking their thumbs and cuddling their teddy bears.

Someone once made a point about there's not enough infomation available in 256 characters to properly represent the game.  Take that an put it in your own words.

Oh wait, tileset people are afraid of letters. 

And..... go!

I built a popcorn popper training room with seeds yesterday.  After a few minutes anyone who survived named one or more of their armor parts.

Then everyone injured died of infection because I forgot clean water.  Ba-zing!

Agh, this again. 

Tilesets killed my teacher.  Now I'm here to avenge his death.  After a musical training montage.

But seriously, CP437 works for me.  Probably because I came here from Nethack.

My experience of tilesets is like seeing someone draw nipples and eyes on "Nude Descending the Staircase" in crayon, because, well, "real nudes have eyes and nipples."

That is not a turkey.  A real turkey is a 't'.  A red 't'.  That is Michael Jackson's zombified left hand in white glove, walking the earth and laying eggs.

Only thing I can figure, is people are having some sort of Catholic School PTSD flashback of hairy nuns wielding rulers when they see the letters of the alphabet, "EYE BEFORE EE! *crack!*"  "I'll show her.", they say to themselves, through the tears and shame.  "I'll... *sob*... never use the alphabet again."

I don't actually mind the isometric tileset of Stonesense.  So there's that.  Of course, I don't have to actually try to do anything with it but look at it and go, "oooh! pretty!"  Well, not so much "oooh pretty" as hideous and awkward and blocky.  Like that farm plot that looked like someone took a flaming dump on a pizza box.

I blame tv, and to a greater extent the internet.  Not only did we, growing up, have no idea what a muffin looked like, we were unclear on it's general position on the human body.  I think those early days of trying to visualize what mysteries the fairer folk concealed, really gave our imaginations a workout.  Like a dwarf operating a pump.  And not at all like a mutilated accident victim inexplicably standing on two barrels.

So, yes, ASCII people are just plain better human beings, as I've clearly demonstrated.  But I don't expect tileset people to be able to understand.  Please see: Dunning–Kruger effect