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First time on an evil map. I was doing very well: had iron and flux, heavily wooded area, caverns only about 6-7 levels from the surface. Then a series of unfortunate events occurred:
1. I sent my only soldier, a crossbowman, to chase down a kobold who had stolen his crossbow. After a few punches the kobold dropped the crossbow, so I told him to stand down. He then runs from the kobold and climbs a tree, then jumps from the top of that tree across the stream to another tree and, predictably, falls to the ground, hurting his arm (although not badly). He is taken to his bed to rest.
2. My two yaks were about to starve, so I did what I usually do in that situation: I butcher them. It didn't cross my mind that I was in an evil region, with known reanimating effects.
Next thing I know, the fortress is terrorized by two yak skins while my military sleeps.

A child's poignant comment on the human condition...

Is there any way to run a harassing bandit gang out of town, or do I just have to kill them all? I can make them yield, but they don't leave.

I'm having a problem trading in town: I can't ask for/offer currency. Down at the bottom of the trade screen it says "Not trading currency" but I can't find a way to change that.

My adventurer started out with 1.000 walking speed (normal). I decided to train crutch-walking for the stat boost it gives. When I equipped the crutch, my speed dropped to .333, which I believed normal (I was, after all, using a crutch). However, on removing the crutch, my speed did not return to 1.000. Just to double check I removed and dropped all of my possessions: still no change. I am not in any way injured, save for a hand infection that occurred much after my speed dropped. My current walking speed is .457 or something like that (at Professional crutch-walker).

I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm just missing something, which is why I put it here.

I was looking at some statues in adventure mode when I saw one of a "Teshil's Slayer." Now, Teshil in this world is the name of a human deity who So I wondered whether these "Slayers" are some new kind of demon? And, if so, would it be possible to look through the world files to find them (what they look like, do, etc.)?

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After many years of wanting to make video games, but never finding a decent, user-friendly, and inexpensive game-making software, I decided I needed to learn some programming (I became an English major to avoid that sort of thing). I saw much praise of Python as an easy-to-learn language, so I did some tutorials; I also did the Roguebasin tutorial for libtcod, so I'm using that too.
Before trying anything too grand (an open-world RPG is what I'd like to make) I decided to make a dungeon-crawler to get my programming bearings. But to avoid sheer mimesis of the genre, I created a story (albeit a simple one) to go with mine. And set it in space.

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There's not much too it right now. I've set up an "arena" where I can spawn items and monsters, just to test out mechanics. I'm working on the blaster: instead of finding new weapons to use, you have one gun (the blaster) that has several "slots," each of which can hold a different type of ammo (and probably other attachments later). The mouse controls targeting: left-click does a basic shot; right-click will (eventually) allow you to target specific body parts, kind of like V.A.T.S. in Fallout (of course, this requires enemies to have specific body parts... but we'll get there).

I will, of course, gladly accept any help - I'll probably need quite a bit.

Probably iron by default. Iron is the first material defined in the raws; as such, it appears a lot when proper materials aren't available, etc.
Now, if you change the raws to define adamantine first...