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You'll also notice that, if a waterskin and backpack are available, they'll carry their own food and water.  I think hunters are designed to just wander around the wilderness killing things and dragging them back without having to constantly check back in to fulfill basic needs.

I've noticed, with some surprise, that raw clear glass can not be cut by a jeweler like raw green glass can.  What, then, is its point?  Is the fact that it can't be cut into gems a bug or a design decision?

I've also found some rock crystal for the first time in my current fortress.  How should I use it?  To make crystal glass items?  To cut directly by itself?  Can I turn it into raw crystal glass and cut that like green glass?

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Originally posted by Patarak:
<STRONG>No matter, it seems the corpse was still finishing it's sentence.   </STRONG>

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Well, you never know, he could have been faking.  Better to just wait it out.  

All my dwarves train marksmanship to legendary before they're allowed to spar at all.  Granted, I've only been able to do this due to a densely forested map and an early strange mood resulting in a legendary woodcrafter (arrows arrows arrows everywhere!).  Once they've hit legendary with marksdwarfship, they get plate mail and a shield and go to wrestling until legendary, then they get crappy copper or bronze hammers (for when marksdwarves run out of bolts) till legendary, then finally they're awarded their masterwork obsidian shortswords.

Well, looks like the migrants aren't going to send me another weaponsmith, and the one I started the map with went insane when we supposedly destroyed his engravings (I swear I didn't, but that's a topic for a bug report).  It's time to train one from scratch.

So, my question: what's a fast, cheap weapon or item to train with in the magma forge?  I know armorsmiths are best brought up with bucklers, for example.  Preferably, I'm looking for something that takes as little material as possible and has a short build time.

Note that I'll be melting down the results, as I have a few hundred masterpiece obsidian short swords lying around.

I've found that the broker won't come to trade until you've dragged all items marked for trade to the depot.  Same thing applies if you've set anyone to be able to stand in for the broker; the last person to take an item to the depot will stay there, but not before.

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Originally posted by Lord Licorice:
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Unless they're all already miserable, the decaying clothing will only generate a single bad thought, and they won't get it again once it goes away.  Unless this is the last straw, nothing particularly awful will occur.</STRONG>

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Actually, you get two bad thoughts, one for tattered clothing and one for old clothing.  And I've actually seen dwarves that should otherwise be at least content with the flashing red arrow of doom for little stuff like clothing and maybe some flies.  But then, in my fortress my leader spends all his time talking to a Merchant who won't leave, so that could explain the unhappy people - no one gets a meeting.

I was working on a way to kill the bugger, but my leader won't go into his new office.  I wonder if he's somehow noticed that it's connected to a floodgate-blocked channel leading to the river, or that it's shaped like a giant skull and crossbones?

What exactly happens to a legendary dwarf in the economy?  I've been making getting all legendary dwarves a goal for my current fortress, since it means I can give them fantastic engraved rooms without worrying about 10k rent.  But I notice that it removes their earnings entry entirely from their info page; does that mean they have no money at all?  If that's the case, are they not allowed to buy things at shops?  Can they never gain items, own a shop, replace clothing, etc?

On a similar topic, will dwarves move?  I've seen extremely wealthy dwarves sitting in 1x2 undetailed slums; will they eventually move to a domicile more appropriate to their financial tier?