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The non-DFHack trick would be to build a floor and then deconstruct it.

eg. checking stock levels of cloth boots.  Not 'any' boots or metal boots.  Just plain old cloth boots, dyed or otherwise.  There is no simple generic 'cloth' material/trait available for such items, only the specific type of cloth.

Note that you cannot go to a clothier's workshop and choose to make "cloth shoe" either. There, you also need to choose the material before you choose the item type.

I haven't experimented with it properly yet, but having seen that migrant dwarfs arrive wearing more "cover" clothing types in colder climates and recalling mentions about frostbite in colder climates, I suspect that in colder climates they might prefer wool over silk for warmth and the purpose of the experiment I have been considering is to answer the question, are military uniforms with wool trousers better in cold environments that silk trousers? Because exertion is a large factor in combat and being too cold or too hot is a source of exertion.

My plan for the experiment is to let the auto industry run many years and then to see which material they produced more of (because of dwarf preferences in what they choose to wear triggering the autoproduction, etc)

Well, a dwarf stuck in a tree can walk from tree to tree along the branch sections, so take that zone where you have a fruit-collection operation and z-up to find those clumps of branchs and then pick good spots to build two z's of up/down stairs leading adjacent to those branches, so that for any given clump of trees, there will be a stairs down for them that they can reach from the trees.

Take an hour to read some of the forum posts here..

Check out here, where you can review bug history and get a grasp of how many bugs have existed at points in time. This fruit-gathering bug is there in one form or another. If you have read enough of the DF Announcement posts, you'll have an idea of how versions are released and bugs fixed.

Check out here, where contributors have helped out.

The global setting is visible to you... click 'p' to to get to the stockpile creation screen, it is there and changed with the "/ * - +" keys. I often set the reserved barrels to 2 or 4 to help if I mess up things early on with booze production.

The big three needed things, that you need to be ready for, are conflict, trade, and dwarf bellies.

There is probably a better term for it than "needed thing", but these are the activities that provide your dwarfs safety and prosperity. Doing just one of the needed things is failsauce, every time. That player digging the long corridor already had the other needed things addressed or being handled in some way. He may have been working on the "conflict" vector, but he had something started for bellies and trade.

When you are working on one thing, you cannot forget about the other two things.
You need to have the gate/floorhatch/door built before the undead kangaroos wander too close.
You need to have the plants collected before you run out of booze.
You need to have the depot built and some trade goods made before Autumn arrives.

The less ready you are, the more of a mess the crisis becomes. So be aware of all of all three things at once, and do not forget the others when you are focusing on just one. Also, "conflict" includes having an attack force in case a predator like a crocodile is around. You need to attack them first because they will maim or kill lone dwarfs quickly. Give a dwarf an axe and a shield and assign a couple of dogs to him.

Fungiwood and towercaps are just trees. Read that and it will make more sense. You will be able to build floors and walls over that fungiwood, and cut the towercap by targetting one of the trunks sections. Floor over the towercap branches that you can see, since when this cutting is done, dwarfs currently standing on them will fall into the water.

A natural or artificial floor can be floored over, which adds a construction to the tile (and changes the color for those that want that to pave floors of gold).

Ramps.... Usable ramps involve 4 tiles. 2 on the upper z and 2 on the lower z. On the lower z, you need the ramp and a wall. On the upper z you need a channelled tile above the ramp and a dug-out tile above the wall (so there will be a floor there) . Designate "channel" and designate "upward ramp" result in the same thing, a ramp and an empty tile above it. Mess with them some and you will understand them. Building them is more work, but if you create the wall and the ramp with 2 empty tiles above them, you will have it.

I'm planning a new fortress. There are these two little mountais, and I'm gonna live there Connect each other and use the underground space of that big one too!
There's gonna be a maze with a lot of traps, where I'll put some defenseless cats to bait the intruders inside it.

My sense of symmetry says you need to put some large construct in the northeast, a tower or statue higher than the mountains, to show your dwarven prowess to those that come to siege.