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Steel armored and presumably steel armed undead, are horrible and probably can kill many of your trained and armored dwarfs in a stand-up fight. The best option would be to lure them into cage traps or trap them in a corridor (locking doors or raising bridges), then leave them to be dealt with later. Caging them should raise the siege, trapping them in a hallway might not.

The aadvark head is probably the "unkillable small head" bug where every hit glances off. Cage it or kill it with a DFHack command. That is

knedl covered all the main points. If you can't find water in the caverns and you are attempting to expand your 3 square water source (channelling out a 4th square, waiting for rain, channelling another square...etc), build a wall completely around the pond and dig a tunnel from your fort to the pond (put a door in the tunnel). This will protect dwarfs from non-climbing/flying critters while they are making the trip to get water for hospital patients.

I think elves in dwarf fortress are too weak I remember elves in other fantasy fictions are good at forge metal tools

Please list at least 10 fantasy settings that include elves, dwarfs, and humans, and rate them each against each other (E to D, E to H, and D to H) for their military, culture, and whatever other comparable values you like.

If you can afford it, buy it. The elves will bring more to trade in the future and this could lead to a breeding pair of war tigers.

Leather armor is still useful, but it competes with the breastplate for the "shaped armor" slot on the upper torso, so usually it replaces the breastplate on second-line dwarfs. The mailshirt might be the most important piece of torso armor because it helps protect the neck.

I've haven't fooled with multiple mailshirts for years because just one steel mailshirt weighs 20 and the dwarf with highboots/helm/greaves/gauntlets/mailshirt/breastplate/shield/axe, is already carrying a lot of weight. But I try to give every dwarf a mailshirt if possible because it may protect a lost hauler long enough for a squad to rescue him.

If your FPS dropped suddenly at once, rather than gradually over hours, here are some things that I've seen as causes:

Pathing to a moving target: Enemy and friendly units that are attempting to path to one of your units, will re-path often. You will see this:
- During a siege when a mob of invaders are pathing through a zig-zag 1-wide hallway of traps to get at your units, because you closed the main gate.
- When a pet is stuck behind a pet-impassable door (watch for the constant ? over the animal).
- When the FB realizes it can path through six caves, into the magma sea, and through your forge.

Water/Magma movement: Either can reduce FPS when happening in a large scale. Draining a one cavern into another is an FPS hit and flooding the caverns with the ocean will drop FPS to 0, and magma flow adds temperature calculations to this (someone made a 3-wide-pit magma pumpstack showing this).

elves came and had this instrument on them. It's worth 39k dwarf bucks. I am tempted to sell a majority of what I own for it because man.

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Buy it! Buy it! I buy them when I can to improve trade relations. I refuse to give them gifts.