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It's a huge leap, but did you try to sell the Dwarf, or just the cage?

I'm also having trouble getting piercing skill. I had been using a wooden spear(several, actually, I throw most of them), and later a combat knife, and I keep getting bashing with the spear, cutting(and some bashing) with the knife, and apparently only getting pierce skill with a critical hit.

When this happens, try disabling the bashing and cutting skills, and maybe even the melee skill. The game's priority in combat skill gains gets kinda awkward, if a bit frustrating at times.

It's mostly because of their attitudes in Dwarf mode. Not only are they unreasonably demanding when it comes to logging, they're also quite snooty in general. Moreover, as merchants, they can be very picky and easily upset-able, and, more  importantly, they also have strange priorities when it comes to establishing trade relations; they're LESS likely to sell you things you may want, like tamed giant animals, if they're happy with your fortress, opting to sell you junky stuff like clothes instead. That's not even considering that they're liable to already be at war with your civ before you even begin playing, thanks to their alien morality. These give plenty of reasons for players to not even bother tolerating their presence.

In Adventure Mode, it's less about disrespect for the race as a whole as much as it is annoyance at their culture. Anyone raised elvish are often a liability: they start off with useless wooden weapons, and because they're at peace with nature, they won't assist you if you're getting mauled by wildlife. Also, aside from the view, there's very little reason to actually visit an elvish site, once again due to their crappy wooden equipment.

I can't say much for any recent versions, but I think I remember in DF2012 that firing bronze-grade ammo from bows or crossbows can actually chip through Bronze Colossi, but for throwing, you'd need at least steel-grade ammo or weapons. That's probably the only situation where there's some use.

My characters tend to be a bit careless, not not wholly immoral. They won't, for instance, pick fights with some Joe off the streets,  prolong fight for the heck of it, or even purposefully kill opponents whom are way in over their heads. They won't, however, go out of their way to help someone if there's just not enough glory or material reward to bother, even during an emergency. Moreover, my characters don't consider themselves responsible for any collateral damage; they just don't care if an innocent happens to get in the way of one of their zombie slaves.

There's also the "Enhanced Muscles" CBM, which doesn't need any power at all, but it is difficult to install.

Are shocker zombies broken?  I encountered one at nearly full health, and on the combat action it suddenly froze me, and my death log shows that the shocker has 30 turns attacking me while I couldn't do anything.  I know they can shock and paralyze you, but any situation where you're denied 30 turns in a row and die is clearly very broken.

Just curious, but did your character by an chance happen to be in a martial arts stance? I had several YASD moments where I forgot to turn off the dragon kung-fu style, which resulted in stunlock/death due to repeated counterattacks against a riotbot.

It seems that when you retire and then unretire, you can randomly restart in any one place you've made claims to before. Should that happen, you can then retire into that new location, even if it were a place you weren't allowed to before.

Now, my adventurer can stay in his new vault for as long as he wishes.