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What happens if you say no when the liason asks if you want to become a barony?

If dwarves are related to one another, can they get married and produce children?

The wiki says that they have to be within 10 years of one another, and can't be children or babies, but I would just like to confirm that they can.

We've all heard of mermaid genocide in the name of profit, nightmarish "dwarven daycare centers," and what are quite frankly sadistic and overly-convoluted trap-designs purposefully built to torture invaders to death.  What I would like to know, though is what's the worst thing YOU have ever done in DF?

Mine was a Vault 101 mega-project.  I modded dwarves to have an extremely low lifespan and a high birthrate, setting the pop cap to 7. I embarked, waited for the first two hard-coded migrant waves, then burrowed into the earth and sealed the entrance, never to see the surface again. After about 30-40 years, all of my dwarves were horribly in-bred and no one had seen the surface for nearly five generations.  I imposed a sadistic rule, brutally enforcing mandates under the pain of death.  Since I never breached the caverns, some goods were hard to come by, namely wood.  Eventually the Vault crumbled via tantrum spiral, brother killing brother, cousin killing mother, father killing daughter.  I was quite astounded by how blood-soaked the walls and floors were when the last dwarf starved to death.

So tell me, Bay12, what's the worst thing you've ever done with your dwarves?

Hey, everyone. 

I know that there are ways to embark that prevents migrants, and that the first two waves are hard-coded, and regardless of what you set the pop cap at, once you dip below a certain number of dwarves more show up.

My question is; assuming you set the pop cap at 1, what is the minimum number of dwarves you can have before the game sends an migrant wave?

I have tried (and failed) to spread the vampiric curse through tainted water supplies. 

Based on what the wiki has told me, I've used some upright spears to stab a vamp a few times, causing blood splatter in a nearby pit filled with water.  I even threw his severed arm into the pit, to ensure that the blood made it down there and didn't just hover weirdly on the surface like it does some times.  I then had my dwarves drink out of it by hand (no well) but still, no spreading. 

I then tried getting the blood down there first and THEN filling with water; it was difficult (blood kept washing onto the walls) but eventually I was able to do it.  Still, no spreading.

Can anyone confirm that vampirism can be spread like this?  If so, how exactly did you go about the infection?

So let's say you've built a mod that allows you to take a war dog to your forge and replace it's skin with steel.

What exactly are the tokens you would need to have your dwarf lead that animal there? 
The way the mod would work would be to create a reaction that produces a cloud using STONE_VAPOR_TEMPLATE in a customized inorganics text file, with the tags

   [SYNDROME]
      [SYN_NAME:steely wardogs]
      [SYN_INJECTED]
      [SYN_CONTACT]
      [SYN_INHALED]
      [SYN_INGESTED]
      [SYN_AFFECTED_CREATURE:DOG:ALL]
      [CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION:START:0]
      [CE:CREATURE:DOG_OF_STEEL:DEFAULT]

which actually transforms the dog into another animal (which would be created in a separate text file).  I've got it worked out to where if the dog is standing nearby and gets caught in the cloud it transforms; however, what I want is for the dwarf to carry the dog there, the way he would if he were going to shear or milk a creature.  Does anyone know how to make a reaction require a living animal?