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I was in my kitchen repeatedly stepping on knives. Not in a way that would hurt, but imagine if you just laid a few knives on the ground and stepped on them so as not to hurt yourself. This went on for what felt like several hours, whereupon I looked into the sink and saw a disembodied goat head looking right at me. It opened its mouth and I heard my alarm clock, which immediately woke me up.

It's been a while since a dream confused me so much.

I actually encountered this a while back (34.11 I think) and I solved it by digging a few more entrances into the caverns, as you have. It's a minor bug, for sure, but it can still be a nuisance, particularly for new players.

Say, "In a time before time, I ate me. That was very satisfying!"

WWUD if he only had plump helmets to eat for years on end?

I'm doing some research in the arena and need to be able to quickly tally up how many dwarves are on either team, team 1 or team 2. There are too many dwarves to accurately count by hand, so I was wondering if there was a way that I could use Notepad++ or something else to see how many on either side of the conflict survived. Thanks!

Are you sure the creatures that your dwarves are fleeing from aren't undead? View the descriptions of the creatures that your dwarves are fleeing from and if they have wounds that are normally fatal, then they are undead. One of your necromancer dwarves may have brought them back to life, and undead creatures cause normal dwarves to flee. I'm not sure what interactions there are when certain undead/intelligent undead/experiments are marked as friendly, however, so the "friendly" tag on the units screen may be misleading and could in fact be a bug, if that's the case.

It would also help if you could perhaps provide a screenshot of the offending area and units screen.

I think part of the problem regarding compounding stress is that all stress sources add to the same stress total, especially once your fortress starts getting mature (10+ years, with various beasts and sieges).

For example (I'm going to make up numbers for simplicity's sake), say that getting rained on for an average dwarf, Urist, adds +100 stress. Urist then goes on to not have any good food for a while, adding +100 stress. Urist now has a stress level of 200. After some time without becoming more stressed out, Urist's stress drops by, say, 10 per day. Therefore, after 20 days, Urist is back to their base level of 0. This is, if I'm not mistaken, how stress currently works. Of course, we're ignoring that dwarf's personality, but we'll get to that.

Now, we're going to break up the sources of stress. We still have the total level of stress, but now it's a summation of the other stress levels, and every stress "pool" drains (and fills!) independently of one another. Using our example: Let's assume that Urist hasn't begun to de-stress yet. While the total level of Urist's stress is 200, it is composed of 2 values, 100 (Stress from rain) & 100 (Stress from bad diet). Suddenly, they have a meal with their favorite ingredient. Hurrah! This doesn't make Urist instantly de-stress, but it does allow them to quickly de-stress at a rate of 50 per day. Now, after 2 days, Urist's stress level is at 80 (50 per day for diet stress, 10 per day for rain stress). Then, after becoming totally de-stressed in regards to their diet, Urist de-stresses at the normal rate of 10 per day for their rain stress, taking

Now, this is grossly simplified, but I think it is something to consider when deciding on how to balance stress. Again, this is all assuming that stress is currently just a sum.

Or, conversely, -5 poor