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If you copied a save over from the old version, you would need to copy the raws from the new version into the save's folder as well. I can confirm that the raws in 31.03 say BAR.

Sanity check: Are you sure he has the relevant labors on? Dwarves tend to come with a random array of skills now, which are NOT activated by default; when this happens on a peasant, s/he appears as some other profession but doesn't have the labors active.

Try to make sure children never have reason to go outside:

1) Ensure your farms have an access indoors. Wall up any other access points.
2) Rearrange the mother's labors(and maybe the father's too) so that she(they) never has(have) a reason to go outside either; that way the kid won't get snatched while following them around in an unsafe area. Assign the parent(s) to a burrow to be extra-sure.
3) Traps. Traps, traps, traps. Kobold thieves will slip right past them, but at least the basic level of goblin thieves will not. A few rows of cage traps will stop snatchers in their tracks. You can then construct the cages in your barracks, rig a lever to them, and give your military some "live fire" training exercises. (But you may want to area-dump, area-claim over the cages, and manually undump the cages themselves, so that dwarves will disarm the trapped goblins.)

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I'm not entirely sure this will help, but try editing data/init/announcements.txt, going down to the entry reading:

[NAMED_ARTIFACT:A_D:D_D:BOX:P:R]

...and eliminate everything after D_D; that is, change it to:

[NAMED_ARTIFACT:A_D:D_D]

That's the only thing I can find that might be a related message. With this change, it will no longer pop up a message box, pause the game, nor recenter your view, but the announcement will still be in your announcements log. Remove D_D as well if this bothers you.

2) Make sure you have enough barrels, yes - specifically, barrels which AREN'T reserved from the stockpile designation menu for brewing/sweet pod processing.

Addendum: A possible way to reduce your barrel usage is to cook items, and have a separate stockpile for only prepared meals, disallowing them from your main stockpile. Have this stockpile's max barrels set to ZERO. With big stacks of ingredients, often only one stack of meals will fit in a barrel anyway, if that - which is a waste of a barrel if you have any cats whatsoever to deal with the vermin who might otherwise nibble the food.

3) since the issue seems to be just powder and soap: as far as I now, powder is bugged. Soap - are you playing the most recent update? If you're in 31.01, soap is made in globs, not bars as it should be, and thus can't be moved properly; this is fixed in recent updates, or by finding the reaction in raw\objects\reaction_other.txt. Look for [REACTION:MAKE_SOAP] - in the PRODUCT token, you should see BAR, not GLOB; if it says GLOB, change it(do so both in the master raw folder, and in your save's raw folder).

Be warned that with soap bars in the fortress, dwarves WILL spam "cancels Clean self: Cannot find path" messages if they have a contaminant on them, as will named pets. You might be better off doing without - or making sure you ONLY have enough to go to your hospital.

4) In addition to wood not making good trade goods(seriously, use stone - it's far more common and nobody objects to it), there is an option in any stockpile to allow plant/animal vs allow non-plant/animal. You can set a stockpile for goods that you want to sell to elves which does not allow plant/animal - I'm not sure if this also includes decorations(which can really trap you if you have a <<-felsite mug->> decorated with wood...), but it should help if you put this stockpile next to the depot, and only grab stuff close enough to be in that stockpile for trading.

Don't sell barrel'd items to the elves. Until you have a magma metalworks, you probably won't have enough metal barrels to even dent your demand. Food may be safe, or at least was as of 40d, which is another reason not to put prepared food in barrels - see #2. And don't sell an entire bin; it's not worth it, compared to their practical value in your fortress. Beyond that, just be careful.

5) is definitely a bug. You may want to consider not making any training weapons - they seem to cause a lot of holding-too-many-items bugs, and dwarves will often use them in genuine fighting, and get brutally slaughtered for their pains. Since sparring is very uncommon in this version, you probably won't suffer from giving everyone steel/iron/metal-of-choice right off.

What's really fun is when your cats start doing this.

Back in 31.01, I had poked at soap in the raws so it came in bars, not globs. Big mistake.

First I had a cat that had mind controlled one of the dwarves, spamming this message for months. Eventually it got rained on and I was finally granted a reprieve from the "cannot find path" spam. (Path to what, I was never clear on; it would pick up a bar of soap in its mouth, just fine.)

Then a bunch of dwarves, dogs, AND cats got this message. (All named pets - never strays.)

I gave up and started a new fort at that point.

Needs more detail.

• Do your dwarves have the relevant labours active?
• Are the tools present, not forbidden, and not tasked to be moved to a stockpile or similar?
• In the case of axes, do you have military dwarves who might be trying to claim them?

I've never had that much trouble with mining, but woodcutting can be frustrating if your soldiers try to grab axes.

Also, if a dwarf carrying one of these tools gets in a fight, be careful - the tool might wind up forbidden if it gets stuck in the enemy, and stay that way even if the dwarf manages to yank it out again.

I had to drop the .ini off of 'v0.31.03.ini' to get it to work incase that helps anyone. So glad this is working. I just stopped playing when my first big migration wave hit. Thanks.

This sounds like you may have run into Windows' tendency to hide file extensions by default. You saw v0.31.03.ini, Windows(and thus DT) saw v0.31.03.ini.ini, which isn't what DT needs.

You save fuel on the iron and coke smelting, sure, but the steel-making process still needs two units of coke: one to make pig iron, one to make steel. Those steps are also the ones that demand flux stones.

If you don't have magma, you need a lot MORE fuel, but using magma does not eliminate the demand for refined coal.