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Even if you keep every single dwarf busy, you will get parties - after all, nobles and children never have anything important to do.

Not if you stick to zone-based meeting areas you won't. You can put them in a room with statues and caged/chained animals, and the dwarves will get all the benefits of the surrounding architecture(and keep idle dwarves out of the way of ones doing actual work), but without parties sucking them in. In that, the OP is correct - it is(sorry) not a new development, but it is entirely accurate.

I'm fairly certain that the material selection when building a workshop(or other building, as when using furniture) is in fact based on pathing distance.

I'm also quite sure that in a large fort, there is a significant pause when it gets to the "material construction" stage as it works this out.

Now imagine that pause every time a workshop job comes up.

You have plenty of unrotten fish - they're just not unrotten raw (uncleaned) fish.

Correction: Cave fish exist(I'm looking at one now), so cave lobsters might well be there too - but they certainly can't be counted on.

Agreed. Is there any reason for this to still be on the suggestions list? It doesn't currently have many votes, but at 6, it doesn't have none, either.

If this isn't clarified soon, might be worth sending a PM to the OP about it; it's a complex enough issue that I for one wouldn't want to just suggest to Toady that he scrub it from the voting list without offering a chance to refine it.

This is a Bauxite lever. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. On the item is an image of Donttouch the Bauxite lever and dwarves in Copper. Donttouch is surrounded by the dwarves. The dwarves are burning.

Slightly tweaked to be closer to how it shows up in game, but still - heh, I like.

Indeed. As soon as you breach the magma sea, you will probably see "Raw adamantine! Praise the miners!"

Even in 40d, I think it was 1:1. But it may be that you're getting more fat than you used to.

Even so, I'm surprised you ran out quickly. Rendering fat used to process an entire stack, now only does single units; I thought soapmaking was the same way. It used to make as many bars at a time as would entirely consume the reagent it had less of at the alchemist's shop - that is, if you had a barrel of 10 lye, and a stack of 7 tallow, it'd make 7 bars, but if you only had 5 lye, 5 bars, in each case leaving the surplus intact. Now I think the reaction does one at a time - or is this not the case?

To be honest I haven't messed with soap since encountering the 'cancels Clean self: Area inaccessible' bug.

It is possible to say "that's not correct" without being a collossal jerk about it.

I just looked it up on the Wiki to confirm, and in a way we're both right. Glass was not a magma-safe material; most glass items would melt when immersed in magma. However, due to a game quirk, furniture was a notable exception(although mechanisms were still required).

All of which is tangential, as screw pumps never get immersed in magma; (almost) any stone or metal(or, indeed, glass) worked in 40d to transmit magma, although anything that could burn(wood, graphite) eventually fell apart under the heat(and if the pump destination was at 7/7, would promptly be immersed).

I actually don't know how it behaves now, though - my biggest pump stack was made with dolomite blocks(now magma safe) and iron components(magma-safe all along). If you have sedimentary layers, though, this isn't likely to be a resource problem, as you'll likely have both coal and iron aplenty.