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And frankly, just kill train the jabberers for war from a distance.

FTFY

This looks to me like a case of breaking the Fourth Wall (or, given the interface of the game, breaking The Ceiling) in that the game is telling the player something that the character does not know: in this case, "this particular brain came from a dwarf and not any other similarly sized creature." In actuality it would be likely impossible for the adventurer to determine whether the prepared brain he/she finds in the night creature's lair came from a dwarf, an elf, a wolf, or anything else that would have a brain of similar size. Especially considering that the extent of medical knowledge in the game world is "if it's torn or broken, put it back together."

If your recruits are using spears, swords or axes, you can send them in with training versions to increase the longevity of your training dummies.

And yes, I would recommend disarming the goblins before you send in recruits. Bolts and arrows are often lethal, if not by headshot then by bleeding out, in my experience.

No... but you can edit d_init.txt under data/init/ to turn cave-ins off. 

Quote from: Urist Da Vinci on May 24, 2013, 07:45:52 pm

Quote from: kingubu on May 24, 2013, 04:51:53 pm

... On the plus side, I discovered that eggs in nest boxes have a lower priority for cooking jobs than booze in barrels.  So setting 'make lavish meal' on repeat will make a TON of wealth very fast and cook up all the booze in your fort.  As long as you have eggs disabled in all your stockpiles.

It's known that ALL items in barrels have a higher cooking priority than un-barreled items. If you want your booze and syrup cooked, you have to let the meat sit on the ground.

Nah bro, use the magic of stockpile links.  Create stockpile that ONLY allows desired cooked items (syrup, booze, leaves, cheese, etc.) and no other food items, link said stockpile to kitchen.  Voila, instant automatic cooking of difficult-to-get-cooked items with extremely low fiddlyness involved.  Works whether you allow barrels or not, and the only downside is if you want to cook lavish meals and don't have at least 4 items in the stockpile.  Easily remedied by making the stockpile 2x2 and having it take from a main stockpile.

Honestly, stockpile linking enables some amazing workarounds to a lot of stuff, I'm only just scratching the surface of it myself.

The dwarves would take all the solid ingredients out of the pile, cooking only those; over time the pile would get filled proportionally more with liquids; eventually the entire stockpile will be liquid ingredients, and since that is the only stockpile allowed at the kitchen, no more meals will be cooked until the stockpile is unlinked/reorgnanized/etc.

Use the 'reveal' tool in dfhack to find him, then either walk there and kill him (which is less cheaty) or use 'liquids' to fill the room with magma (which is less fun). Armok help you if he's in an unloaded block...

That's actually it. This bug is your problem: a single bone won't get used, so if all you have lying around is "Stray Puppy bone" then you can't do anything but dump them.