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Zombies aren't particularly picky about who they are attacking. It sounds perfectly feasable to have a fortress defense system based on dropping attackers into a pit of zombies, though in the end the result will just be, more zombies.

Dig a pit underneath that pit that feeds straight into hell itself. Wait until you have a zombie army several hundred strong, then drop them in to see what happens.

I'd very much enjoy an optimized inventory management system. Instead of appearing in a list form, the items appear in order based on where they are on the body. It'd look something like this:

Right Hand: Iron Axe
Left Hand: Iron Shield

Head: Iron Helm

Torso: Pig Tail Shirt; Iron Mail Shirt; Iron Breastplate; Cougar Leather Cloak

Right Arm: Iron Gauntlet
Left Arm: Iron Gauntlet

Groin: Rope Reed Trouser; Iron Greaves

Right Foot: Rope Reed Sock; Iron High Boot
Left Foot: Rope Reed Sock; Iron High Boot

Quiver: Iron Bolts x25
Backpack: Forgotten Beast Roast x3; Iron Crossbow

My Speardwarf had a finger bitten off by an FB. It was the only injury he received. He's been in a coma for a year now. It was a snow FB, too, and didn't bleed at all so I can rule out any syndromes.

Angst coma, maybe?

I think that there should be an additional alert queue for certain things such as lack of specific resources to perform certain duties, or the discovery of valuable ores and stones while mining. It annoys me to no end that my screen is constantly flooded with 'discovered jet' and 'cannot perform Plant Seed task' alerts. Therefore, I propose that there be a separate queue for alerts of this nature. Whenever one of these alerts is received, a flashing exclamation point pops up in a corner of the screen alerting you to the presence of information that you might want to know.

The announcements screen can be kept open for important events such as Strange Moods and Thieves and Sieges. That is information that we might want to know about quickly, so would continue to scroll across the screen like it usually does.

I just get so tired of seeing the same message play over and over again, especially when I've already acknowledged the problem and am currently working on a solution to it. It grinds my gears.

'Job Cancelled: Cannot weave cloth from plant thread'
'Job Cancelled: No milk-able creature available'
'Job Cancelled: No Available Source of Fuel'
'Job Cancelled: Lack of Tanned Hide'

I KNOW! STFU!

Bah.

The new system is really ticking me off. Who mines valuable ores with anything but legendary miners? Instead of mining a whole vein of lignite and getting every last stone out of it, now I'm only getting a fourth of what I normally mine. I NEED THAT LIGNITE!!

I don't really believe that would add anything to gameplay. Truth be told, it sort of irritates me whenever I DON'T see at least a few dwarves idle every once in a while. To me it makes me feel like my fortress isn't running efficiently at all due to a critical backlog of work that needs doing.

You mean procedurally generated vampires with random abilities and temperaments ranging from badass to total wuss? I like it.