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Drinking the blood of things you killed is always good. Well, almost alway, don't worry about it.

I was playing once, did that "drink the blood spatters off yourself so you don't die of thirst" trick, as recommended. Suddenly, I was a vampire. "Ohhh that's right, I was fighting a vampire a couple of days ago..."

You can make a burrow of where the depot is, and assign the broker to that burrow. Remember to take him out of the burrow when he is finished trading.

Yeah, I understand that.  That's not what toomanysecrets did though.

I'm trying to get people to understand that active/training marksdwarves will not engage in archery practice and people keep arguing with me that their's do, while simultaneously admitting that their 10 dwarf squad has a minimum of 7 or 2 or some other number less than 10.

Either they're not understanding what I'm saying or they don't understand how the minimum attendence number works, or both.

You can tell if they are active/training. Here's an example:

I look around at my archery targets. At one of them is a green helmet dwarf, who is called Kogan. He is doing Archery Practice. He is a helmet, so he is active, right? He is green so he is a marksdwarf, right?

Kogan is in squad 6. So I go to the military Positions screen, which is the default military screen. Then I move the cursor down the list of squads to squad 6, and then move right to the list of squad 6 soldiers. I move the cursor down to Kogan, he is the 6th soldier in squad 6. I look at the top right of the screen, and it says: "Schedule: Train".

So there we have it. An active soldier with the Train order is doing Archery Practice.

You can't build a wall right up to the top of the sky can you?

3)To use local ore and to train a weapsonsmith, I am making silver weapons for export.  I know value is determined by material value and by craftsmanship, but are all weapons worth the same base amount?  I couldn't find a speadsheet on the wiki.  If they are different, which is most valuable?

I think they are worth different amounts. To maximize the value, you should carefully look at the trade agreement with the liaison to see which things they want to buy. They can easily pay double for something they want, so that's what you probably should sell them.

You can put hatches over stairs. Hatches are like doors, except they go vertically instead of horizontally. Simply lock the hatches, and nothing will get through. Probably. If you want to be sure nothing can get through, build walls and floors so there is no path to the scary stuff.

It takes them a long time to wander around and pick up all their equipment. I allow a month or two for them to get that done. Before they have picked it all up, they sometimes turn up for training with 1 sock, a mitten, and a spear, stuff like that. If you send them to fight before they are equipped, they'll get into fistfights and stuff.